WOD: The Love Styles of Self Care for Mediators and Coaches

Mediators and coaches spend their days absorbing other people’s conflict, grief, and fear. That empathy is the work — but without deliberate care, the very capacity that makes you effective slowly drains away. This continuing-education webinar adapts Salim Uqdah’s Love Styles framework into a practical map for sustaining the practitioner.

Drawing on the nine ancient Greek words for love — from Eros (bodily vitality and rest) and Agape (sustainable compassion without martyrdom) to Philautia (self-compassion at the center) — you’ll learn to recognize the early signs of compassion fatigue and burnout, set boundaries that protect your energy, and build a personal self-care plan and emotional-resilience toolkit you can use between and after difficult cases.

Leave with a fresh lens on an old idea: you cannot pour from an empty cup, and caring for yourself isn’t separate from the work — it’s what makes the work last.

Presented by Salim Uqdah, Mediator & Conflict Coach. Offered for professional development; verify CE-credit eligibility with your accrediting body.

About your trainer:

Salim is a Rotary Peace Fellow attending the University of Queensland. He is pursuing his Masters of Peace & Conflict and will graduate in July 2026. For the winter break, he’s actively seeking an internship in the Asian and Oceanic regions.

Before receiving the Peace Fellowship, Salim worked as a Neutral for Miles Mediation and Arbitration Panel and owned Uroboros Mediations in Charlotte.

His credentials are:

NCDRC – Certified Superior Court & Family Financial Mediator Clerk of Court, Special Proceedings, Estates & Guardianship,
CDC Certified Divorce Coach,
FINRA Securities Arbitrator,
an Approved Mediator for the US Federal Court Western District of North Carolina,
Collaboratively Trained Neutral Facilitator,

He opened his business, Uroboros Mediations, in 2018 and worked diligently at Mecklenburg County Courthouse for three years. Salim graduated from High Point University with a BS in Psychology and a BA in Political Science in 2013. Salim also graduated with honors from Central Piedmont Community College’s Post Baccalaureate Paralegal Program and received the Outstanding Student Award in Paralegal Technology in 2015.

Salim combines perseverance, passion, and empathy to achieve hard-won successes and constantly diversifies his skills, talents, and network. He is among a few Advanced Practitioners of the Association of Conflict Resolution Academy of Family Mediators in North Carolina. He is a member of the NC Association of Professional Family Mediators. Salim is also a North Carolina Certified Paralegal and eDiscovery Advanced Specialist. In addition, he is a member of the Dispute Resolution Council for the North Carolina Bar Association (NCBA), is an active member of its Race and Equity Committee, and is the Co-Chair of the Section Pro Bono Committee. Salim is on the Board of Directors for Care Ring, Playing for Others, and the North Carolina Civil Collaborative Law Association. Locally, Salim served on the Mecklenburg Justice Access Initiative Dispute Resolution Committee, is the President of Business Networking International (BNI) Charlotte Achievers, and is a member of Pauli Murry LGBT+ Bar Association and the Charlotte LGBT Chamber of Commerce.

As a social entrepreneur, Salim seeks new ways to innovate and increase social harmony and goodwill within his immediate communities. He is the managing partner of the Dispute Resolution Group (DRG) alongside his business partner, Amy Cox Gruendel, which provides dispute resolution consulting services to organizations looking to innovate.

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