Hello, I am Mark Baumann and I own the Integrative Client Counseling Institute {ICCI), and the Conflict Science Institute (CSI). ICCI is oriented to legal professionals and CSI to legal, mental health, medical, and other professionals. Both are boutique research and teaching institutes for professionals on how to better help people who need help navigating conflict, threat, and danger.
I developed the Integrative Client-Centered Model (ICCM) for lawyers, and the Conflict Model for all helping professions. The Conflict Model is a transdisciplinary biopsychosocial model for understanding why people do what they do in the context of conflict and/or danger. Both are built from foundations of existing knowledge developed from quality research, science, and time-tested techniques. To both the ICCM and Conflict Model, I added some unique research findings and relationship and counseling techniques I’ve learned.
My hope is that the ICCM and Conflict Model offer organized and flexible frameworks for anyone to guide development of their skills and awareness over their career. The frameworks are designed to accommodate new findings from science and research.
Through ICCI, I train lawyers, firms and staff on the many elements of client counseling and relationship building using modern and accessible human element models, such as trauma-informed care, interpersonal neurobiology, and emotion science.
Through CSI, I teach advanced and more complex human element models and more advanced counseling and relationship techniques.
Through both institutes, I hope sharing what I’ve learned will deepen what I think I’ve learned.
I have traveled the world for courses in advanced neurobiology and relationship science. Those models are described in other parts of the ICCI and CSI websites. What has been most precious is my studies of attachment science.
I am lawyer, litigating since 1988. I have studied conflict for over 25 years. In 2013, I completed an LLM equivalent in Interpersonal Neurobiology studies. I have completed training in six scientific attachment assessment methods and certified as a coder for the Adult Attachment Interview.
My full resume is here. I have practiced criminal law, business law, and mostly family law. In my law practice, my goal now is to solve disputes, including divorce and domestic violence cases, without going to court or even mediation. The tools in the ICCM and Conflict Model help me accomplish that. Previously, when my focus was to solve disputes in court and in trials, the techniques in those models gave me the upper hand. Sometimes, the techniques allow one or more people in the conflict to have a healing experience.
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