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The Roger Fisher Negotiation Training Scholarship Sunday 9th October 2011 | Emma Robson The Roger Fisher Negotiation Training Scholarship
2011 Information Sheet and Application Form
The Roger Fisher Negotiation Training Scholarship was created as part of the lasting legacy
of The Roger Fisher Tribute held in Toronto in 2007. One Scholarship, donated by the Stitt Feld
Handy Group, is awarded annually to a qualified Ontario recipient who otherwise would not be
able to receive negotiation training.
The purpose of the Tribute was to honour Roger Fisher and to present him with a Lifetime
Achievement Award to acknowledge his tremendous and far-reaching contributions in the field
of dispute resolution. Twenty-six organizations from around the world, under the leadership of
the ADR Institute of Canada, The Advocates’ Society, the Ontario Bar Association and The Law
Society of Upper Canada, joined together to salute Roger Fisher.
Allan J. Stitt, President of the Stitt Feld Handy Group, describes Professor Fisher and the
Become a Powerful Negotiator Workshop as follows:
“Roger Fisher is an inspiring man. Not only has he made major contributions
over many years to the resolution of some of the most intractable disputes in
the world, his teachings and the teachings of those who worked with him have
changed the approach to negotiation, and to mediation, of people around the world.
Back in 1991, I went to Harvard Law School for the purpose of becoming a
Constitutional Law Professor. A colleague of mine encouraged me
to take a negotiation course with Professor Fisher. ‘You'll love it’, he said.
‘It will be the best course you take in law school’.
Not only was it the best course I took in law school, it led me down a path
to learn about negotiation and I've never looked back.
When I returned to Toronto, I decided that I wanted to teach the ideas that
Roger had put into my head. His ideas about looking behind positions to
underlying interests, his idea that just because you disagree, doesn't mean
you have to be disagreeable, and his ideas about how to be a truly effective
listen.
Our Become a Powerful Negotiator Workshop is based on Roger's theories.
Course participants are asked to read Getting To Yes, the famous book on
negotiation outlining the approach to negotiation developed by Roger Fisher
and William Ury, before the course starts. The course is Canadianized but is
true to Roger’s ideas and concepts about effective negotiating. It includes
three days of in-person training and one day of online learning. It's
skills-building, practical and hands-on.” - 2 -
The Scholarship entitles the recipient a place in the Become a Powerful Negotiator Workshop
held in Toronto. Scholarship recipients are responsible for their own travel, accommodation and
other expenses. The course must be taken within 12 months of the award of the Scholarship. For
further information about the Workshop and the Stitt Feld Handy Group see: www.sfhgroup.com
Eligibility
The Scholarship is available to a resident of Ontario who:
(1) would not otherwise be able to obtain negotiation training;
(2) has demonstrated an interest in negotiation skills and dispute resolution;
(3) would benefit personally from negotiation training;
(4) would benefit the community at-large, and/or public interest, community, or pro bono
organization(s) or company(ies) with which the person is involved , by the person
strengthening his or her negotiation and dispute resolution skills, thereby leveraging the
value of the training beyond the Scholarship recipient.
Selection of Scholarship Recipient
The Roger Fisher Negotiation Training Scholarship Committee (“Scholarship Committee”)
solicits applications for the Scholarship each year, and selects the recipient, applying the four
Eligibility criteria outlined above, in its sole discretion. The Scholarship is administered by the
ADR Institute on Canada on behalf of itself and The Advocates’ Society, the Ontario Bar
Association and The Law Society of Upper Canada. The Committee is comprised of
representatives of these four organizations, the Ontario Community Mediation Coalition, and
other leaders in the ADR field.
Applications
In completing the attached Application Form, applicants should include an outline of their
background and experience in Section A and explain the ways in which they satisfy each of the
four Eligibility criteria, outlined above, in Section B. Previous applicants, who were not
selected, are encouraged to reapply.
Applicants should include one or more supporting letters, if possible, from (a) the organization(s)
or company(ies) with which the applicant is involved (as referred to in the fourth Eligibility
criteria) and (b) others who are in a position to support the applicant’s statement about how he or
she satisfies each of the four Eligibility criteria. The letters supporting the Application should be
listed in Section C of the Application Form.
Applications (together with all supporting letters) must be received by 5:00 p.m. (Toronto
time) on September 23, 2011. They can be e-mailed, faxed, delivered or mailed. - 3 -
E-mail:
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Please include in the Subject line:
“Application for The Roger Fisher Negotiation Training Scholarship”
(Remember to attach the Application Form and supporting letters, if any.)
Fax: 416-487-4429 (Be sure to include a fax cover page.)
Mailing/Delivery Address:
The Roger Fisher Negotiation Training Scholarship
C/O ADR Institute of Canada, Inc.
405 – 234 Eglinton Avenue East
Toronto, Ontario
M4P 1K5
Candidates may be invited, in the discretion of the Committee, for a telephone or an in-person
interview.
It is anticipated that the person selected to receive the 2011 Scholarship will be notified on or
before October 31, 2011 and that all applicants will be informed of the outcome.
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