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• Mindfully navigating through Conflict
• 6 ways to stay calm and collected during a heated argument
• Honoring AFCC’s 60th Anniversary
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 20: Transforming Workplace Culture & Conflict with David Liddle MBA
• Mediate.com’s Mental Health and Mediation Conference is Now Online!
• Divorce Mediator & Attorney – What’s the Difference?
• Your Ultimate 12-Step Guide to Coworker Mediation
• My Students Are Ready To Handle The Most Divisive Conflicts
• Mediate.com Podcast Episode 37 – Mediating the Business Divorce with Margeaux Thomas
• Want to Build Peace? Understanding Trauma is Key – Part 2
• Does Online Mediation Create Disadvantages for New Mediators?
• Harnessing Technology for Dispute Resolution: A critical assessment of India’s ODR Policy 2021
• Navigating a High Conflict Divorce
• Mediate.com Brings ODR and AI Expertise to ABA Conference
• Colin Rule Receives D’Alemberte-Raven Award from ABA in Las Vegas!
• Better Reflecting Mediation to the World
• ICODR Podcast Episode 20 – Why Is Justice Lagging Behind? with Mirèze Philippe
• ICODR Podcast Episode 19 – Influence of ChatGPT on ODR with Noam Ebner
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 19 – Reincorporating Combatants in Colombia with Dr. Solveig Richter and Laura Camila Barrios Sabogal
• Mediate.com Podcast Episode 36: Development of Mediation in Brazil with Mariana F. Souza
• Inside the Mediation Room with Guest Lara Traum
• Inside the Mediation Room with Guest Ken Neumann
• Best Practices in Asynchronous Online Dispute Resolution
• Breaking Barriers in Order to Access Justice: Improving Diversity in Canada’s Mediation Field
• Overcoming Clichés in Mediation
• Conflict Begins in the Brain, Driven by Emotions
• To Zoom or Not to Zoom?
• Launching ECRRoster.org
• How to Have an Unsuccessful Mediation
• 8 Important Topics Often Overlooked in Custody Mediation
• The Importance of Really Listening – For Ourselves, Others and Democracy
• Want to Build Peace? Understanding Trauma is Key
• Choosing the Right Mediator for Your Disputes
• 4 Reflections on the Ombuds Conference
• Implementing AI in Next Level Mediation Software
• Optimization in Mediation and Artificial Intelligence
• Mediate.com Podcast Episode 35: What Mediators Should Know About Communication in Latin American Culture and How AI Impacts Dispute Resolution
• Great Reads Book Club – Colm Brannigan and Marc Bhalla (interviewed by Colin Rule)
• Caseload Manager for Ombuds Offices
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Mediation Conference – April 18-19
• Expert Forms for Mediators
• The Life Goals Analysis: A Powerful Mediation Tool
• Competing, Accommodating and Compromising in Conflict Resolution
• What Makes Parties Trust a Mediator?
• Mediate.com Welcomes Ron Dolin as Chief Innovation Officer
• The Connection Between Expanding Consciousness and Conflict Management
• The Italian Mediation Reform: Elements and Perspectives
• Mediate.com Podcast Episode 34: Can the Mediation Community Be Responsive To Changing Consumer Trends? with Linda Heng
• APEC (Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation) Study on Best Practices in Using ODR
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 18: Cancer, conflict, and digital technologies in peace mediation with Dr. Miguel Varela Rodriguez
• Maximizing Value: Soft Negotiation Skills to Create Value
• AI, ADR and Anxiety
• Notice to Mediate: When to serve one in British Columbia
• How Will AI Change Mediation? 3 Bold Predictions
• The Dilemma of the Abrasive Leader in the Workplace… and the Solution
• Finding Hope: Support for those struggling with substance use disorder
• ODR and Multiparty Consensus Building – from Cyberweek 2022 (video)
• ICODR Podcast Episode 18: ODR in Courts in Canada and Cyberjustice with Dr. Nicolas Vermeys
• Mediate.com Podcast Episode 33: What Mediators Should Know About the Business Development Side of Adding Conflict Management Coaching with Cinnie Noble
• Mediator Mugs Breaking Out!
• Developing Mediation Culture in Civil Law Systems: A Tale of Two Countries – Italy & Georgia (Part 2)
• Who says Mediation is not for Complex Cases?
• Developing Mediation Culture in Civil Law Systems: A tale of two countries – Italy & Georgia (Part 1)
• Avatar Mediation
• Mediate.com Podcast Episode 32: Understanding Human Dignity to Resolve Conflict in Organizations
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 17: Making Lives More Complex (and Democratic) with Shannon Wheatley Hartman
• Preventive Mediation
• How to Prepare for Mediation with a Narcissist
• Great Reads Book Club – David Liddle (interviewed by Merry Brown)
• Making Mediation Work in Your Favor – How to Approach Mediation in High Stakes Litigation
• Inside the Mediation Room with Guest Colin Rule
• What Happens Now? Succession Planning for Family Owned Businesses
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 16: Accents, inclusion, and migration with Dr. Zdena Mtetwa-Middernacht
• What If We Don’t Agree on Everything in Divorce Mediation?
• ‘Holding The Calm’… Many Different Ways To Say The Same Thing
• New Jersey: Why Divorce Mediation is Needed More Than Ever
• How Positive Psychology Can Benefit Conflict Resolution
• Bob Bergman shows off the latest AI features in his platform NextLevelMediation.com
• Overcoming Tribal Consciousness
• A Guide for Small Businesses to Resolve Disputes through Mediation
• Mediation is Hard!
• Uncertain Times call for Creative Problem Solving for Divorcing Couples
• Chinese Spy Balloon – ‘Shoot It Down’: Expert Negotiation Lessons
• Van Winkle: An Unintended Consequence of Zoom Mediations
• The Unexpected Power of Food in Mediation
• Empathy In Toxic Partisan Pandemic-Based Conflicts: How Organizational Strategy Can Help Us Do Better
• ICODR Podcast Episode 17: Colm Brannigan & Marc Bhalla, authors of “Online Dispute Resolution: Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow.”
• The Informational Benefits of Small Talk!
• ChatGPT and Mediation
• Lynn Merle Johnson: 1947 – 2023
• You Should Always Negotiate Your Worth: 3 Reasons Why
• What is Mediation?
• ICODR Podcast Episode 16: Guest is Dr. Tsisana Shamlikashvili, Moscow Based International ADR Expert
• The Role of Mediation for Better Mental Health in Relationships
• Political Reconciliation Made Possible via Choreographed Dialogue
• Managing Our Own Expectations
• How Can I Become More Comfortable with Conflict?
• ICODR Podcast Episode 15: Professor Orna Rabinovich-Einy of the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa.
• Political Behavior and Conflict Management
• Mediation May Hinge on a Clear Understanding of What’s on the Table
• ODR in Aotearoa: What’s in a Name?
• Great Reads Book Club – Dan Simon and Tara West (interviewed by Clare Fowler)
• Revisiting a Parenting Plan in the New Year
• Disputes Suitable for ADR in India
• A Life Mostly Lived – A Mediator’s Haiku Memoir
• Why Family Mediation is like Climbing a Mountain
• When Words Fail Us – Creating Safe Space for Empathetic Listening
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 15: Brianna Hernandez, Ph.D. Candidate in International Relations
• Is Mediation like Quantum Physics?
• Reflections on Civility and Ethics
• Mediate.com Podcast Episode 31:  Online Conciliation in Colombia with Nicolás Lozada
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 14: Adrian Wagner, Research Fellow at European School of Governance
• A Premium Dispute Resolution Domain Name is Key to Business Success
• Real Practice Systems Project Series
• The Difference Between Accommodating and Avoiding
• Conflict Analysis Needs Better Tools
• Mediation, Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT
• Why Refusing to Mediate and Collaborate Can Be Costly Business
• The Highly Sensitive Person at Work
• Pele’s Magic, Match and Mediation
• A Litigator’s Guide to Mediation Advocacy
• Enhancing Communication
• Factors that Determine the Beginnings of the Initial Mediation Session
• Aaron Judge Contract Negotiations: A Case Study in Leveraging Power
• New Year, New You: 3 Resolutions Worth Making
• Reflections: Your Year with Conflict and Courage
• Business vs Values in Negotiation: FIFA and Qatar
• Planning to Transform Your Organisation?
• Who Can I Bring To Custody Mediation?
• Expand Self-aware Consciousness at Work
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 13: Laura Aumeer on gender, climate change, and conflict
• Conflict Resolutions for 2023
• So, You Want to be a Mediator?
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 12: Sebastian F. Winter, M.D. Ph.D.
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 11: Mediator and Facilitator Felicity Steadman
• ICODR Podcast Episode 14: Daniel Rainey, ODR Pioneer and Principal in Holistic Solutions, Inc.
• ICODR Podcast Episode 13: Professor Dorcas Quek Anderson from the Singapore Mediation Center
• Mediate.com Podcast Episode 30: Using Caucus in Family Mediations with LaTanya Moss
• In Lichon, Michigan SC changed the test for the scope for Arbitration
• 5 Ways to Wrap Up Conflict for the Holidays
• Create and Maintain a Healthy Workplace Culture
• Chalking: Next Stop – U.S. Supreme Court?
• Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) Masterclass with Colin Rule in Jan/Feb – Last Week to Register!
• Inside the Mediation Room – Lucia Kanter St. Amour
• Mediate.com Podcast Episode 29: Mediating Employment Disputes with Tim Warner
• ODR and Airline Disputes
• The Future of Online Mediation with Jim Melamed and Colin Rule
• A Preview of the ODR2023.org Conference
• Ethan Katsh interview – The Origins of Online Dispute Resolution
• Mediation Key To Social Harmony
• Mediate.com Podcast Episode 28: Intercultural Communication and Envisioning a Culture of Peace
• ICODR Podcast Episode 12: David Allen Larson, Professor of Law at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law
• Great Reads Book Club – S. Lucia Kanter St. Amour, interviewed by Clare Fowler
• Mediate.com Membership & Services
• The Mathew Effect
• Ten Real Mediation Systems
• When Mediation Conduct Goes Wrong
• The Benefits of using ADR in Resolving PI Disputes
• Bayonetta 3, Fairpay and Negotiation
• Is Conciliation in the Resolution of Labour Disputes a waiting room before Adjudication? An Indian Perspective
• Name-Calling in Conflict
• Making Your Workplace Mentally Fit
• Successful Mediation Practices from a Former Judge
• Five Ways to Repair a Marriage
• Reexamining Email Negotiations
• ICODR Podcast Episode 11: Graham Ross, Head of International Marketing at Smartsettle
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 10: Tamsin Parnell on Discourse and Division
• Great Reads Book Club – Hesha Abrams, interviewed by John DeGroote
• Don’t Wait For Others; Be The Change
• Wrangling Emotions
• Self-compassion is the Elixir of Life
• Managing Conflict and Bullying Behavior in the Workplace
• How a humanistic approach to Mediation would impact on the definition of mediation, mediation practice, training and accreditation – Part II
• Why I argue for Mediation to move beyond the dehumanised legal mediation model – Part I
• Negotiation and Hamilton
• Understanding Virtual Eviction Mediation Programs – A Q&A
• Inside the Mediation Room: Guest Chip Rose
• Modifying Underlying Dimensions in the TKI
• Improve Conflict-Handling Behavior in Groups
• Custody Mediation – Before or During Litigation?
• Back to Basics: Why Mediate?
• Mediation Before the Mediation; The important role of a pre-mediation session
• Negotiation and Mediation Communication Gambits for Breaking Impasse & more…
• An Introduction to Collaborative Construction Contracts for Large and International Projects
• Bob Bordone on Reducing Political Polarization
• The Hyper-Polarization Challenge to the Conflict Resolution Field: An Online Discussion
• Richard Susskind Keynote for Cyberweek 2020
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 9: Jan Gerrit Voelkel, Ph.D. Student in Sociology at Stanford University
• ICODR Podcast Episode 10: Chittu Nagarajan, Founder and CEO of CREKODR
• Investor-State Mediation: A New Way to deal with Old Problems
• Self-determination versus Protection: A False Choice?
• Speak or Not to Speak
• Learning Conflict Management Methods Direct From Their Creator
• The Impact of Mediation on Mental Health
• ICODR Podcast Episode 9: Professor Pablo Cortes of Leicester University Law School
• Mediate.com Podcast Episode 27: For the Forces of Good With Lucia Kanter St. Amour
• Pouring a Little Psychological Cold Water on Online Dispute Resolution
• Slices of Conflict in Life
• Logic, Emotions and Values: 40 Years of Negotiation Style and Decision Theory
• Abandoning Our Assumptions When in Conflict
• Mediation for Wedding Vendors and Couples in Singapore
• Who Should Use Custody Mediation?
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 8: Professor Aleksandra Cichocka
• Mediate.com Podcast Episode 22: An Introduction to the Ombuds Role for Mediators with Chuck Doran
• Dan Rainey on Making Friends with the Fourth Party
• How Can We Increase Selection of Diverse ADR Neutrals?
• Mediate.com Announces Launch of New Online Dispute Resolution Platform: ODR.com
• Turn your Mistakes into Stories
• Seven Keys to Unlock Mediation’s Golden Age – Table of Contents
• About Forgiving
• Past and Future Change Management Trends
• Caseload Manager Helps Ombuds Offices Meet Best Practice Standards
• For the Forces of Good, Indeed!
• Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen: Consider Mediation!
• ICODR Podcast: Episode 8: Professor Amy Schmitz
• Your Working Life is Short: Why Waste it on Litigation?
• Negotiation is Not Much Different From a Muscle: An Excerpt from ‘For the Forces of Good’
• When Unmarried Couples Separate – What’s Best for the Children?
• Recognize and Close Culture Gaps
• 7 Ways to Get Rid of Unhealthy Mindsets
• New Mediate.com Membership Badges Are Now Available
• Mediators Help Save the Economy
• Mediation – A Sound First Step to a Successful Prenup
• Christian Aspects of Mediation / Dialogue (A Reflection)
• Post Divorce Haunts: Unresolved Issues or Changes in Circumstances Come Back to Haunt Divorced Couples
• Soft Touch
• Deception or B.S.?
• Mediate.com’s Mediation and Mental Health Conference September 28-30
• Significant Participation, Agreement Levels Highlight Potential for ODR in Family Cases
• How Can We Reduce Hyper-Polarization?
• Angelia Tolbert Receives Marvin E. Johnson Diversity and Equity Award
• Mediate.com Member Only Resources
• ICODR Podcast Episode 4: Colin Rule, CEO of Mediate.com and ODR.com
• Inside a High-Profile Plea Bargain Negotiation – Part I
• Inside a High-Profile Plea Bargain Negotiation – Part II
• Conflict Resolution Readiness
• Conflict Management and ‘The Big Picture’
• “When ‘Happily Ever After…’ becomes ‘Under Construction Forever After’”*
• Bob’s Great Negotiators: Roger Fisher
• Who Gets the Custody of Pets in a Divorce?
• A Dollar for Chalking
• Looking Back at the First 18 Months of Arbitrate.com
• 6 Tips to help Manage Conflict at Work
• Questions to Improve Communication and Build Relationships
• Back to School Basics for Busy Co-parents
• Dispute Resolution in the Post Babel Era
• Remembering Victor Herbert, Berkeley’s ‘Mr. Mediator’
• A Long, Hard Road to ‘Yes’
• Dealing with Toxic Co-workers or Bosses
• The Spy That I Love
• You Likely Provoke Others, From Time to Time, Right?
• Conflict Management and Political Behaviour around the World
• Positive and Negative Emotions in Conflict
• Custody Mediation with a Narcissist Spouse
• 3 Strategies to Minimize And Resolve Business Partnership Disputes
• Nesting Divorce: When Co-Parents rotate in and out of the home
• Divorce is a Rollercoaster
• Mediate.com Podcast 23: Providing Mediation as an Alternative Response to Low Emergent 911 Calls within the City of Dayton
• Both Sides Now
• It’s All a Matter of Style!
• Let’s Normalise Having Difficult Conversations
• Things to Consider When Divorce Includes Children with Special Needs
• It’s Fine (and other misunderstandings that fuel conflict)
• Interrupting When in Conflict – A No No!
• What Does Rowing Across the Pacific Have to do with Dispute Resolution?
• Can Children be Involved in Mediation?
• New Michigan Mediation Mental Health Program a Nationwide Success Model
• How to Navigate the Role of an ‘Accidental Mediator’
• A Big Piece of Pie!
• Assessing “Looking Good”​ or Actual Behavior?
• Each Of Us Can Be The Superhero That Changes The World
• IS THE WORLD REALLY FALLING APART, OR DOES IT JUST FEEL THAT WAY?
• ICODR Podcast 4: Colin Rule – CEO of Mediate.com, Arbitrate.com & ODR.com
• The Elephant in the Room
• 5 Benefits of Mediation for Family Law Dispute Resolution
• 10 Tips: Mediators’ Techniques to Build, Foster, Restore Community Cohesion
• What the Statistics Tell Us About Divorce and Custody Mediation
• Conflict Management Lessons from the Djokovic–Kyrgios ‘Bromance’
• Meet Mediate.com’s new Chief Data Scientist, Oladeji Tiamiyu
• ODR – Are you prepared for the future of Conflict Resolution?
• The Importance of Mediation in the ADA Interactive Process
• “How To Win Friends and Influence People” aka Being a Mediator
• Pensions in divorce: What are they and how are they split?
• The Distinction Between Collaborating and Compromising
• LGBTQ Couples And Divorce Trends
• More Than Ever, Leaders Need Soft Skills
• Mediation Offers Lifeline for Communities Being Inundated by Flood of Evictions
• Expanding Self-Aware Consciousness in the Workplace
• Work and Life Lessons from Watching Rafael Nadal
• Justice and Fairness
• Mediation Evangelism and Other Bubbe-Meises
• Inside the Mediation Room: Guest Graham Ross
• How Mediation Can Help Toxic Behaviors in Relationships
• How Your Written and Oral Communication Can Produce – or Reduce – Extreme Polarization
• Family Law Mediators: A Tool to Reduce Conflict in and out of Mediation for Your Co-parent Clients
• Mediation at the Grassroots: Kenya
• Mediate.com Podcast Episode 20: Early Dispute Resolution in Special Education
• 50 Questions You Can Ask Friends and Relatives in Political Arguments
• What is Conflict Transformation?
• Reconnecting with the Outside World
• Options For Resolving Business Partnership Disputes
• The Art of the Simple in Mediation
• Proposal for A User Friendlier CCP Section 664.6
• ODR – From Dial-up to Fiber
• Is Your Separation Complicated?
• Mediate.com Featured Blogs
• Three Alternatives to Custody Mediation
• Negotiating Prison
• What Do You Look Like When In Conflict?
• A Tool for Co-Parenting
• Future of ODR In Kenya
• How to Deal with Conflict in a Healthy Way
• Develop a Culture to Support Diversity in the Workplace
• A Comparison of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Systems
• Needed: Random Acts of Kindness
• How to Discuss a Prenup With Your Soon-to-be Spouse?
• Waiting – A Mediation Distraction
• How to Diffuse the Commercial Cost of Workplace Conflict
• Resolving frozen Misperceptions between two Warring Parties
• Advice for Navigating a High Conflict Divorce
• Prenuptial Agreements: What Do The Statistical Trends Say?
• Michael Lang and Susanne Terry Establish The Reflective Practice Institute
• Mediating Storms in Life
• But is it “Fair”?
• Mediate.com – A Pictorial History 1996-2022
• The Agreement to Conflict
• Introducing the New Mediate.com!
• 3 Strategies to Minimize And Resolve Business Partnership Disputes
• Confidence in Conflict: Three Methods to Resolving Conflict Without Losing Your Cool
• The EEOC Set to Release Two Reports Comparing Online and In-Person Mediation
• Why Do We Blame?
• Inside the Mediation Room: Guests Susan Guthrie & Woody Mosten
• Proposal for A User Friendlier CCP Section 664.6
• Conflict Management and Philosophy
• Co-parenting mediation when you have a new partner
• Compulsory Civil Mediation in Italy 2011/ 2021
• On Grief and Grace
• Are You Separate From Your Surrounding Systems?
• Our Shame Stories and Conflict
• How Best to Resolve Conflicts in the Health Care Setting
• 7 Tips for Parents Talking to the Kids About Divorce or Separation
• The Pandemic’s Silver Lining for the Courts
• Prenuptial Agreements: What Do The Statistical Trends Say?
• First We Take Manhattan
• Top 10 Questions About Child Support
• Affordability, Accessibility and Reliability – The Community Mediation Model of Singapore
• Should You Agree to Mediate When You Think Your Spouse is a Narcissist?
• Conflict & Consciousness
• Lessons Learned from the Implementation of a Video Eviction Mediation Program in Uncertain Times
• Confidence in Conflict: Three Methods to Resolving Conflict Without Losing Your Cool
• The Art of the Term Sheet
• Personal Transformations are Required for Corporate Transformation
• 7 Points on the War and Dialogue from Ukrainian Mediators and Dialogue Facilitators
• Your Rearview Mirror
• 5 Ways Custody Mediation in Ontario is Unique
• Chemistry and the World of Mediation
• Self-Determination in Mediation
•  Marital Mediation: Where Are We Going?
• The Avoiding Culture in Organizations
• 7 Tips for Parents Talking to the Kids About Divorce or Separation
• Beware of Email Agreements!
• Will You or the Conflict Be Something You’ll Laugh at Some Day?
• The War in Ukraine: Lessons for Mediators
• Perhaps the Eyewitness is Correct!
• History of Decision Making and Application to Dispute Resolution
• What Are the Benefits of Mediation When Getting a Divorce?
• Privileged Remarks
• Reducing Litigation Costs in Noncompete Litigation: Former Employer’s Perspective (Part 1 of 2)
• Invisible Rules and Conflict
• How JAMS Is Striving to Make Its Workplace Greener
• The Known and the Unknown
• How to Resolve Conflict Between Manager and Employee
• Parenthood Changed My Conflict Style
• Values in Mediation
• [PODCAST] Demystifying Mediation Myths in the Construction Industry
• A Mediator’s Reaction to the Invasion of Ukraine
• Know Your Worth
• Survival Tips for Cohabitating During Divorce
• The Last Question
• An Apology: Was It Really?
• Guest Author: Stefano Pavletic on Lessons Ukraine Teaches About Neutrality
• Did Will Smith Have an Amygdala Hijack?
• Book Review: Conciliation & Mediation in India (Gracious Timothy Dunna ed., Kluwer 2022)
• Why are You and Your Sibling Fighting Over Your Parent’s House?
• Inside the Mediation Room: Guest Bill Eddy
• Saving Myself by Saving Others
• A Lesson Learned!
• Smith. Rock. Slap. Play safe, in conflict.
• Negotiation 101: What Parties Should Know About Negotiations at the Mediation Table
• Will Smith: For the Love of Your Spouse
• “My Story” Featuring Patricia H. Thompson, Esq.
• Mediating the Oscars
• Conflict Intelligence (Conflict-IQ™): A Tool for Assessing Your Conflict Resolution Skills
• Four Tips from my Difficult Discussion with Dad about Driving
• Organizational or Interpersonal Conflict?
• A Better Understanding of Premarital Mediation
• Write Your Own Script
• Self-Care
• What Podcasts Can Teach Us about Difficult Conversations
• Mediate.com Offers New Family Dispute Resolution Training!
• Reach for Humanity in Dark Times: The War in Ukraine
• Letter to our Colleagues about the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
• Can Lawyers Mediate Proficiently Based on their Training
• Critical Analysis of the Mediation Bill (The Other Side)
• Mediation and Insolvency, with a focus on developing countries
• The Importance of Workplace Appreciation (And How to Express It)
• No Shortcuts when it Comes to Conflict
• Cookie: When Trust is Absent
• Inside the Mediation Room: Guest Don Saposnek
• Stepping into the Unknown – “Standards Applicable” to Mediators under Singapore Convention on Mediation
• Memoir of a Misfit Mediator, A Novel by Joe Folger
• Which is Better: To Be Strong or Smart?
• Mediation Musings
• Mediation is about Necessary Endings- Constructal Law
• California Divorce Mediation Checklist
• “Inside the Mediation Room” with Michael and Karen Aurit
• Model Tenancy Act (2021) – A Missed Opportunity for Mediation in India
• Mediation As A New Path To Curtail Bullying
• Covid Exasperates Issues Between Co-parents About Agency
• COVID Consequences: Slouching Toward Civil War
• COVID Mediations: Dialogue Tools Set Up Pandemic Mediations for Success
• The Value of Venting
• Hubble and Webb and Unconscious Gender Bias!
• 3 Oft-Forgotten Questions to Ask Yourself Before Family Mediation
• More COVID PIEs and the Alice-in-Wonderland Supreme Court Decision Endangering Workers
• A Conversation with People who Don’t Want to be Vaccinated
• India’s Mediation Act, 2021
• The Blame-Shame Game in Mediation
• Is the Mandatory Mediation Program in Ontario Still Viable?
• My COVID Perceived Injurious Experiences
• Ending a Marriage? Don’t Get Divorced from Financial Reality in the Process
• Document Your Wishes: Divorce & Changing Life Insurance Beneficiaries
• Are You Really Ready for Divorce? The 8 Questions You Need to Ask
• How Does a Mediator Help Families Resolve Conflict? – Video
• Confronting Stigma Around Mental Illness in Mediation
• Exploring Agreement – Readiness for Divorce Mediation
• Why is the Pandemic Causing a Spike in Divorce?
• How To Have a Successful Mediation!
• Eviction Mediation Q&A w/ Christina Wright
• Using Stone Soup
• Wanted: Public Officials with Emotional Intelligence
• Conflict Resolution and Religion
• Changing Landscapes of Mediation
• Personal Histories in Conflict Resolution Interview Series: Howard Gadlin
• The Law of Conformity – Conflict Lessons from 2021
• How to Control Your Emotions During a Difficult Conversation – Video
• Interviewer or Volunteer? The best mix for difficult conversations
• Being Nice Helps
• Further Reflections on the last 525,600 minutes (x 2)!
• Eviction Mediation Updates, December 2021
• “Hearing” the Other Side in Employment Mediations
• [PODCAST] The Divided Community Project’s Commitment to Community Change Through Dispute Resolution
• The Pendulum Has Swung
• How To Prepare For Your First Divorce Mediation Session
• Conflict Assessment and Management – Systemic Mediation
• How to Get Through The Holiday Season if You Are Getting Divorced?
• How to Have a Difficult Conversation with Your Boss
• How To Have an Unsuccessful Mediation
• The Top Five Issues in Startup Co-Founder Separations
• A Chance to Become a Special Master
• Transformative Family Dialogue During the Pandemic – A Story from a Mediation Center in the Czech Republic
• Jurisprudential Deadlock on Asymmetrical Arbitration Clause Between Delhi and Calcutta High Court in India
• To Mediate or Not to Mediate Your Child Custody Case
• How Mediators Can Solve Tough Problems in Mediation
• Essential Tips for a Successful Oil and Gas Mediation
• [Podcast] CEO Leadership: A Conversation with Chris Poole on His Career and the Pathway Forward for JAMS
• Manage Your Storm Shift
• 4 Tips to Make the Most of Your Divorce Mediation Process
• What Kaizen and Sir David can Teach Mediators About the Green Pledge
• Video: When Might It Be Necessary to Bring In a Mediator?
• The Challenges Women Face at Work and How Mediation Can Help
• Self-Determination in the Skilled Mediator
• Opening Offers in Negotiation
• Mixed Mode Dispute Resolution Papers Featured at Fordham Conference
• Your Gut Instincts and Conflict
• Changing Hearts, Minds, and Behavior around Conflict
• Fundamental Attribution Error as a Contribution in Motor Vehicle Accidents
• Moving from Elder Frustration to Family Redemption: Book Review
• Focusing on Alternative Dispute Resolution: A Conversation With Two JAMS Neutrals
• Virtual Mediation in Today’s World: A Pandemic Success Story
• How to Stay Calm During Difficult Conversations (like at Thanksgiving!)
• Why is Gray Divorce Becoming Increasingly Common?
• Using Questions for Enlightenment
• How to Resolve Racist Conflict
• Shovel 6 – The Real Role Play
• CPR International Conference Highlights: ‘Effects on Cross-Border Disputes After the Singapore Convention’
• How to Work Effectively with Your In-House Counsel
• [PODCAST] JAMS Neutrals on the Evolution of Trusts and Estates Disputes and Considerations for Selecting the Right Mediator
• Mediating Divisive Topics
• Book Review: When Gender is in Question, a Guide to Understanding
• Mediation in Art Law: A New Era with the CAfA?
• 5 Questions to Ask Your Potential Family Mediator
• Being Prepared
• What I’m Reading – Collateral Damage of War
• What Makes Someone Ask for a Divorce
• Social Security Benefits and Divorce
• Double Hatting In Dispute Resolution
• The Known and the Unknown
• ODR Ethics Case Study 1: Confidentiality v Self-Determination
• The Future of Business So Conflict Doesn’t Disrupt It
• Incorporating a Campus Mediation Program
• Mandatory Mediation in India – A Step Forward?
• Mediation: The Human Face of Conflict
• How Can We Evolve From Our Unresolved Conflicts?
• Tips to Navigate Conflict in the World of Social Media
• The Impending Battle for the Soul of Online Dispute Resolution
• “What Should I Wear?” – Making Choices and Online Dispute Resolution To The Rescue
• Negotiation Will Not Fix Sexism
• Conflict Management Lessons from Improv Theater
• Remembering Mediator Irvin P. Foster
• “When Patterns are Broken, New Worlds Emerge”
• Court Ordered Mediation and Informed Consent
• Book Review of Evolution of a Field: Personal Histories in Conflict Resolution
• Top 5 Co-parenting Apps for Mediation
• “Double Hatting” under Med-Arb: A Comparative Analysis
• How Much Money Does Mediation Save Companies?
• Health Systems and the Benefits of Early Dispute Resolution
• Working with Financial Neutrals
• The Surge in Workplace Disputes Under Disability Discrimination Laws: Good News or Bad News?
• Managing and Resolving Conflicts in Remote Teams
• Domestic Violence and Family Mediation
• What Commercial Trial Lawyers Can Learn from Transactional Lawyers About Mediation
• Do You Love Yourself Enough So No One Dares to Hurt You?
• What Would *You* Have Done?
• Recognizing Common Internal Issues That Often Escalate Into Disputes and How ADR Can Help
• Strathclyde Mediation Clinic: A decade of dedication to mediation in Scotland
• Mediation and the Evolution of Democracy: Inventing Interest-Based Responses to Lying, Demagoguery, and Fascism
• Transcendent
• The Movement- Video
• What are the Qualities of a Good Mediator? – video
• ERRR On the Human Side of Mediation Encompassing Empowerment, Recognition, Reflection and Respect
• What I’m Reading
• Bellwether Mediations As An Alternative To Bellwether Trials
• “My Story” Featuring Cristina Pereyra-Alvarez, Retired Judge, 11th Judicial Circuit, Florida
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• Overcoming The Sunk Cost Fallacy and Its Untoward Impact on Settlement Dynamics
• Bring Five Percent more Compassion to Conflicts
• The Mediator as a Choice Architect
• “Never Ruin an Apology with an Excuse”
• Your Student is Headed Back to In-person Learning – and There May be Things to Fear that Have Nothing to do with COVID-19
• SHOVEL 5 – Whose Fear is it Anyway
• Mediate.com Adopts Online Mediation Practice and Ethical Standards
• Ronald Melin Supancic – A Memorial
• Why Have a Disclosure Protocol for Mediation?
• Congratulations, IOA! 1,000 Members!
• Paths Forward for Online Mediation: Final Report of Online Mediation Task Force – Introduction
• Paths Forward for Online Mediation – 8 Primary Recommendations
• Paths Forward for Online Mediation – Index of Resources
• Q&A with Hon. Irma E. Gonzalez (Ret.)
• Eight Tips for Mediating High-Profile Construction Disputes
• Paths Forward for Online Mediation – Committee Reports, Recommendations & Resources
• Dance of Opposites – Book Review
• Preparing and Paying for QDROs in Divorce
• Conflict in the Workplace – Mediation Can Make Your Team More Efficient
• Game Playing in Negotiation: Evolutionary Purpose and Necessity—Machiavelli’s Place At the Table
• What Challenges Should the Proposed Mediation Act of India Address?
• Negotiation Tactics: How They Work and How to Protect Yourself and Your Client from Them
• Don’t Chalk My Tires, Or Why Mediation is Not Appropriate
• Helicopter Conflict
• High-Tech Dispute Resolution
• The Limits of Mediation
• Tips for Addressing Childhood Conflict
• The Customer Isn’t Always Right– But They’re Causing More Conflict Than Ever
• Yes and No are Powerful Words
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• Suffering From Bipolar Disorder While Striving for Peace
• Mediation and the Language and Culture of Politics
• Riding the Conflict Resolution Highway
• Mental Health First Aid Training May Make Our Community Happier and Healthier!
• The Civil Rights Act of 1964: The Right to Bilingual Mediation
• How Do You Define “Ethics?”
• Eating Our Words
• How to Resolve a Dispute with Someone Who Doesn’t Know Your Language
• [Podcast] Where Does the Insurance Industry Sit Now on Racial Issues?
• Who Wears the Pants in Your Family?
• To Solve a Problem at Work–Ask; Don’t Assume
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• Mediating (and Settling) Real Property Cases
• Making Ethical Decisions
• Why I Don’t Caucus
• A Rewarding Response
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• Vulnerability for the WIN!
• Exemplifications of Typical Topics: Mediator as a Playwright (Part I)
• The 5 Phases of Speaking Your Truth
• Mediator Ethics: Should You Ask for a Waiver of Liability?
• When the World is Too Much, How to Release Overwhelm with Resonance
• Should Tribunals Stand up to Employee ‘Hypersensitivity’?
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• Teaching Students to Think Like Practitioners
• [PODCAST] JAMS Foundation & Hands of Peace: Empowering American, Israeli & Palestinian Youth to Be Peacemakers, Agents of Change
• Alvin Toffler, ODR, The Red Queen, and the Pandemic
• ADA Mediation Refresher
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• The Creative, Collaborative Use of Neutral Experts in Environmental Mediations
• Mediation Advocacy: A must for law students in India
• 3 Ways Parents Can Help Their Kids Adjust
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• Beyond Mediation: Conflict Coaching
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• A Few Best Practices for Online Law Practice and Trainings
• Why Mediators Need to Stop and Think Hard about Facilitating NDAs in Settlement Agreements
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• The Growth of Mediation in Argentina
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• [PODCAST] JAMS Neutrals Discuss the Use of Mediation in Bankruptcy Cases
• A Tale of Two Negotiators
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• Bring More Peace Into Your Life with Jeremy Pollack – Tip 22: Manage Your Emotions
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• UNCITRAL Completes a New Mediation Framework, Based on the Singapore Convention
• Use This Tool to Talk About COVID19
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• Fight, Flight, or Freeze … Conflict Responses are Very Personal
• ADR is Not a Household Term
• Implicit Bias is Everywhere!
• Peace Is Possible – a haiku
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• Sulha, Community Mediation ?
• Implicit Bias in Judging!
• The Emotional Embrace
• Mediation and Lawyers
• New UK Report on Mandatory ADR
• Southern Maryland CMC’s Support Conversations on Race and Privilege
• Acknowledging Mistakes at Work
• UN Insolvency Work Finds Help with Mediation
• Who Should You Call When in Conflict?
• How to Avoid a Rough Argument
• Now More than Ever, Creativity is Needed in Divorces
• Immigration and Conflict Resolution
• Mediation Briefs and Preparation
• Cats’ Advice on Maintaining Our Mental Balance
• What is a Mediator?
• 1992 Watts Gang Truce
• Say That Again – Six Ways to Harness the Power of Your Words in Mediation
• 3 Strategies for Effective Co-Parenting
• Definition of Transparent
• Disruptions, Disputes, and Dialogue: What Just Happened?
• How Many ‘Brewdogs” Out There?
• Things fall apart. How to respond?
• Mediation in the Field of Business and Human Rights
• Conflict Escalation
• Confirmation Bias: Something Mediators Need to Appreciate
• A Protocol for Online Mediation
• Shovel 4 – Diminished – Tradition reduced
• Business Interruption Insurance Claims and COVID-19
• For Family Cases Involving Reports of Intimate Partner Violence, Shuttle and Videoconference Mediation Are Safe, Effective and Preferred by Parents
• Insurrection, Demagoguery, and the Mediation of Political Conflicts
• Top Ten Cognitive Biases and Distortions in Mediation
• Certainty Does Not Equate to Accuracy!
• Charting a Middle Course for Court-Connected Mediation
• Live or virtual? Is the Future Here to Stay? Born of necessity. Driven by ease.
• An Affirmative Higher Social Responsibility Duty to Serve Systemic Social Change through System Design
• ADA Mediation Guidelines
• Q&A Highlights Importance of RSI/UC Davis Research on Procedural Justice in ODR
• Retaining Your Assets in Divorce
• Do You Model Conflict Competence?
• Stress, Depression, and Heart Attacks: What Poor Management Does to Employee Health
• Co-Mediation in A Volunteer Co-Mediation Process. Some Simple Ideas
• Battling Burnout: Mental Health and Self-Care in Mediation
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• Conflict in the Helping Professions
• How Bystanders Can Stop Gossip
• [Podcast] Being Bold: Broadening the ADR Diversity and Inclusion Landscape
• The Remarkable (And Often Very Surprising) Benefits of Virtual Mediation
• Mediation as a Therapeutic Intervention in the Streets of Toronto
• Co-Parenting Online Course – How to Not Put Your Kids in the Middle of Your Divorce
• Reconciling Allegedly Alternative Mediation Models by Using DIY Models
• Mediation Ethics – an interview with Ellen Waldman
• Race and Caste, Gender and Patriarchy, Wealth and Class: Mediating the Systems, Structures, and Sources of Prejudice
• Validating Medical Claims: do you get true value for your contributions?
• 5 Ways Conflict Resolution Practitioners Can Prevent and Resolve Special Education Conflict During the Pandemic
• Can We Learn to Have More Empathy?
• Face and Mediation
• Being Offended is a Choice
• Proposal for Standard Explanation in Mediation
• City Commissioner Commends ISCT Staff Member for Work on Police Reform Initiative
• Global Voices Highlight: A Path to Mediation in the Middle East
• A Lot of Common Sense and a Little Mazel Can Go a Long Way
• Mediation and the Four Agreements
• Introducing the Great Reads Book Club
• Changing Standards
• Decline of Dialogue? Galton, Love, and Weiss on Joint Sessions, Caucuses, and the State of Mediation
• A Mediator’s Guide to Claims Reserves in the Insurance Industry
• “Yes, But…..” Hypocrisy in Conflict
• “Noise” is not Bias!
• A Mediator’s Take on: Thinking in Bets, by Annie Duke
• Mediators Like Online Mediation And Other Verifiable Facts
• Diversity at the Mediation Table – How Do We Get There?
• Full Video Now Posted of Forum on Online Mediation for Youth and Schools
• “A Community for All”
• An AAPI Neutral’s Perspective on Culture and Contract Interpretation
• You Might Have more in Common with Bill and Melinda Than You Think…
• In the Wake of COVID-19, Hawaii Legislature Passes Bill Requiring Mediation Before Eviction
• The Problem With the Label “High Conflict Divorce”
• Effectively Identifying Interests for a Successful Mediation
• Looking Inside the Brain: Loneliness and Conflict
• Abstract Strokes: Mediator as an Artist
• How Can We Understand Everything?
• The Power of Story to Shift Conflict
• Virtual Hearings and Mediations Are Here to Stay
• Reaching the Finish Line: Using a Neutral Facilitator Can Help Lead the Path to Resolution
• Effective Disagreement
• Imbalance of Power!
• A Mediator’s Reflection on Meditation
• Dispute Resolution with Collaborative Law
• New Mediators’ Guidance from Youth Conference
• Announcing Scholarship Winner
• Mediation and Access to Justice for All: The Case of Unrepresented Parties
• Managing Confrontational Behavior in Mediations
• Courts Should Make Mediation Good Samaritans not Frankensteins
• Approaching Custody with Reason vs. Rancor
• Are They Crazy? No, Just Human
• Artificial Intelligence, ODR, The Black Swan, and …Imaginative Cells
• Online Dispute Resolution: Mediating in the Time of COVID-19
• The Choreography of Mediation
• Cryptocurrency and Divorce
• Preparing Clients for Productive Mediations
• Eviction Mediation Insights from Two Successful Programs
• Conflict Resolution Professionals as Politicians – Gary Friedman’s Experience
• Modeling for the World: Five UN Agencies Pledge to Accept Mediation Requests
• Mediation and Co-Parenting: Why It Works
• Diversity and Inclusion: Where Process Equals Purpose
• We Should Replace Mediation Models with a Unified Conceptual Framework
• The Mediation Process
• An Alternative to Litigation – Mediation and the Impact of Non-Verbal Communication
• Progressive Discipline, the Misunderstood Frontier – Part 4
• Consensus Instrument for Work Relationships
• An Offer You Can’t Accept
• Bring Your Being
• Divorce and Property Division: Am I Entitled to More Because my Spouse Ruined Our Marriage?
• Mediation Within the Conscious Business
• Preparing the Next Generation of Professors of Environmental Studies
• Does Your Work Culture Promote Psychological Safety?
• Paul M. Lurie on Guided Mediation
• 5 Smart Financial Tips to Plan a Divorce
• International Patent Litigation and Mediation
• How You Approach a Disagreement Matters
• The History of Mediation and Why It Is Still in Use Today
• Amendments to the LCIA Mediation Rules, 2012 – Keeping Up with the Changing Times
• Finding a Remedy When in Conflict
• Mediation Confidentiality: Misconceptions, Pitfalls, and Best Practices
• Reflection as a Manifestation of Recognition Beyond Relational Weakness and Self-Absorption
• Sometimes the Answer is “No”
• Trust and Rapport – ODR Style!
• The 2020 Tax Conundrum: Questions Facing Couples Whose Divorce is Pending
• Shovel 3: The Big One
• Using Text Messages and Emails in Mediation, Family, or Divorce Court
• Virtual v. In-Person Hearings in a COVID World and Beyond
• The 5 Benefits of Executive Conflict For Your Business
• 20 Ways to Improve UNFCCC Meetings and Climate Change Negotiations
• [PODCAST] ADR can be a “Win-Win” Solution for In-House Counsel
• The Power of Gratitude
• ADR & Activism Through Art – Maya Angelou and Frida Kahlo
• The Muddy Time
• The Relevance of Mediation in the Modern Workplace
• Questions and Questioning within the Conversational Framework
• The Singapore Convention on Mediation – Where’s Europe?
• Confidentiality and Protecting Client Data in an Online Environment
• Drafting Mediated Workplace Agreements
• How to Manage In-Laws Post Divorce
• How Mediation Can Make Divorce Easier on Your Family
• Helping Kids Adjust to Life When Parents Go Through Divorce
• Affect in Methods of Dispute Resolution
• A Short Story: How My Friend Destroyed Their Bullies
• ODR Survey–Your response requested
• Managing Expectations to Avoid Conflict
• One Year Later: Zoom Fatigue
• Annoy the Mediator at Your Own Risk: Negotiation Tactics and Missteps to Avoid, Part 2
• Be Open like Oprah and Candid like Chrissy
• Don’t Look Where You Fall
• Progressive Discipline, the Misunderstood Frontier – Part 3
• Temporary or Partial Impracticability and Frustration of Purpose and Pandemic Affected Contracts and Leases
• Practical Tips for Presumptive ADR Participants: Five Do’s and Don’ts for Pre-Mediation Statements
• ADR Principles and Clergy-Congregation Relations
• For Ombuds Moving Online
• Evolution of the Mediation Field: Conversation Series with Field Leaders
• Announcing the Launch of the New and Improved Arbitrate.com
• After Lockdown, Businesses will Need to be More Human Than Ever
• Why Mediation Fails
• Weaving Our Tapestries
• Mediating Workplace Sexual Harassment: The Road Less Taken
• Domestic Harmony For Better Future Of Our Children
• Have Empathy like Eleanor (and be Perceptive like Princess Diana)
• CPRAM21: Committing to More Diversity in ADR
• Line in the Sand
• Courage is a Choice
• Using Mediation to Develop a Prenup that Satisfies Both Parties
• CON·FLICT
• [NAWJ Podcast] Technology in the Courts and in ADR: Meeting the Moment
• How Do We Tell our Friends We’re Getting a Divorce?
• Progressive Discipline, the Misunderstood Frontier – Part 2
• Adversarial Ethics and the Responsibilities of Mediation Associations
• CEDR’s Eileen Carroll: Her Mediation Story
• Certified Eviction Mediators in Montana — by videoconference and in person
• A Tale of Two Pilots: A comparison of civil justice innovation in New York State and England & Wales
• Ways to Practice Building Your Emotional Intelligence
• Safety, Simplicity, and Clients—oh my!
• Of Pandemic and Perseverance: NYCLA’s ADR Committee Makes Lemonade Out of Lemons in 2020
• Keeping the Marital Home in Divorce and Pitfalls for the Unwary
• Blind Spots and Conflict
• Why are LGBT+ Employees Still More Likely to be Involved in Workplace Conflict?
• ADR’S Place in Navigating a Polarized Era
• Money Buys Happiness
• Rule of Law in the New Abnormal – Webinar
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• FINRA DRS Postpones In-Person Hearings through April. Are Virtual Hearings Driving Down Customer Recoveries? These Researchers Say “Yes”
• Innovative Ways to Use Mediation (other than Dispute Resolution)
• Clash of Approaches
• Is ADR the Cure for COVID-19-Related Litigation?
• Lawyers are from Mars, Clients are from Venus– and Mediators Can Help Communicate in Space
• Shovel 2 – Saving Traditional Mediation
• A First-Hand Experience with My Premarital Agreement
• The Ten or Twelve Top Reasons (More or Less) for Not Mediating a Dispute – Revisited
• Mediating and Resolving COVID-19 Related Contract and Commercial Lease Disputes
• Why are Lawyers Good Mediators?
• H.E.R.E are the Steps You Need to Take to Have a Transformational, Conflict-Positive Conversation
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• Tips for a Productive Divorce Mediation
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• “Whatever you do for me, without me, you do to me”
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• Dealing with VIP Privilege in Mediation
• Book Review – Evolution of a Field: Personal Histories in Conflict Resolution
• How Can We Best Make and Maintain Quality Mediators?
• Code of Civil Procedure Section 664.6 Is Now Lawyer-Friendly
• Conversation, Kindness, and Democracy
• Start 2021 with Apology and Forgiveness!
• Cyclical Nature of Interpersonal Conflict
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• Make Yourself Aware About Divorce Mediation
• Recognizing Trauma: Litigation and Politics are Harming Us
• Radical Collaboration
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• Book Review: The Art of Roleplay and Dispute Resolution Training
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• 5 Zoom Lessons for Leaders
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• How to AVOID Conflict Gracefully
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• [PODCAST] Reflecting on Nine Months of Virtual ADR
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• Mediators, Time to Mend Our Nets
• Collaboration is the Future
• ‘Tis the Season to Mediate or Arbitrate?
• Canada – Protracted Costly Litigation Highlights “Perils Of Not Having A Dispute Resolution Mechanism Built Into A Contract”
• Conflict Resolution Trainer & Gun Lover
• When the Cure is Worse Than the Disease: Civil liberties Under Attack
• [Podcast/Video] International Arbitration Across the Pond: Everything JAMS Part 1
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• Reflections on the last 525,600 minutes!
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• Empty Threats Change Nothing
• How Simple Mediation Skills Can Bring Peace After The Election
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• To ‘Unlock’ the Disputes Post the Lockdown, Use Mediation as ‘The Key’
• What to Do When Abrasive Behavior Disrupts Your Mediation Process
• Stepping Into 2021
• The 2020 Elections, Mediation, and the Political Divide — What Next?
• LCAM/HSF Mediation In Arbitration Survey Initial Results
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• Concepts that Can Help Practitioners Help Parties Make Decisions in Disputes
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• Entrenched Views Make Resolution Tricky
• The Importance of Flexibility, Creativity, and Being Prepared!
• Confidentiality – Seamless or a Thing of Shreds and Patches?
• Should Employment Matters with Religious Connotations be Dealt with in Court or by Mediations?
• What a Financial Affidavit Won’t Do
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• Bridging the Gap Between Us
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• Is There a Zoom Mediation in Your Future?
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• Let’s Settle This Online
• Healing our Divisions in Troubled Times
• MC3 and Mediate.com enter into new agreement to further Mediator Professionalism
• APFM, NAFCM, MBB & ACR Co-Sponsor National Mediation Policy Act!
• How Mediation Saved the World
• Artificial Intelligence and Arbitration: The Computer as an Arbitrator — Are We There Yet?
• How Can American Democracy Survive its Latest Conflict?
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• A Process for the Formulation of a School’s Change Strategy
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• Rethinking How We Dress!
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• Build the Toolbox
• Mediate.com 20/20 Conference
• New Podcast on the ABA Website Regarding Online Dispute Resolution
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• Need for Clear Language Initiative to un-Babel Our Models
• Do You Always Like You?
• Why People Skills have Become Essential to the NHS in its Second Wave Challenge
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• Cyberweek 2020: Opening Session Interview of Jim Melamed by Ethan Katsh
• Mediate.com Announces Task Force Executive Committee and Advisory Board to Support Online Mediation
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• What To Do When Parties Attribute Bad Faith Motives To Each Other
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• Should Lawyers and Mediators also Play the Role of Therapists?
• Cyberweek Next Week
• Conflict and Culture on a Voyage to Mars
• Virtual Mediation; An Enhanced Process or an Ephemeral Solution?
• An Academic Journal on Hispanic America Online Dispute Resolution
• What Is E-Mediation?
• Group Decision-Making on Complex Public Issues: An experiment with structure.
• Mediation In Greece
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• Deescalating Verbal Attacks
• Texting Your Way To Resolution!
• Review Analyzes Impact of Conflict and Stress on the Workplace
• Bedrooms, Bookcases, or Beaches: Choosing and Organizing Your Background with Purpose
• Una Revista Academia Sobre ODR
• Because Mediators Deserve a Personality Test Too
• Mediation in Dollars and Sense
• Mediating Conflict in the Time of Covid-19
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• The Aim of Argument
• A Transformative Mediator Intervening in a Commercial Would-Be Dispute
• The Singapore Convention and the JAMS/SCMC Joint Mediation Panel
• Evaluating Mediation’s Future
• Asynchronous Instruction in this Year of Living Dangerously
• Envisioning Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) for Internet Service Provider Outages
• Why We Caucus
• Creating Accessible Mediation
• Mediation: A Peacemaking and Peacekeeping Tool in International Relations
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• The Dissonance Within Us
• October Month of Conflict Resolution Week 2: Featuring 4 Peacebuilding Think-Tanks Across the World
• A Beginners Guide to Mediation – If you Aren’t Doing Empathy or Curiosity, You Probably Aren’t Mediating …
• Video: Mediate.com: The First 25 Years
• The Lawyerization of the Mediation Process
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• Fault Lines/Property Lines in Conflict
• The Impermanence of Life
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• ODR in India: Opportunity, Challenges, and the Obvious
• Mediate.com Data Indicates Shift in Focus
• Mediate.com Survey: Analyzing the Field
• Stanley Leonard Rodbell – 1934 – 2020
• When People Interrupt
• Practical Tips and Techniques to Succeed in Virtual Mediation: Zooming Ahead!
• Mediation: Movement, Business, or Racket?
• Impact of Couple Conflict and Mediation on How Romantic Partners are Seen: An fMRI study
• Conflict and Culture
• Do You Have to be a Lawyer to Draft a Separation Agreement?
• Talking It Out- The Problem With, And In Rural Areas
• Fragility, Policing, and the Neurophysiology of Fear and Escalation
• Mediation as a Business Accelerator
• Employment Litigation: 3 Instances Where A Company Should Explore Mediation
• Secrets in Plain Sight
• Task Force Recommends ODR Platforms to the ADR Institute of Canada
• Culture and Religion, Evaluating Mediation Approaches: A Case Study
• View from the mediator’s chair – what to do (and not do) in mediation
• Three Questions to Resolve Conflict
• Taking Control of Mediation
• In Their Voices – Video with John Ford
• Mandatory Course on Mediation for Law Students in India
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• What Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Can Teach Us About the Neutrality of the Mediator
• In the Time of Covid-19: The Rush to Modification
• Singapore Convention on Mediated Settlement Agreements Comes Into Force
• Pretrial Risk Assessment
• How to Choose a Divorce Mediator
• You Mediate on Zoom. Now What?
• Listening is the Key to Problem Solving
• Family Mediation vs Family Litigation
• The Role of Restorative Practices in Effectively Addressing Gender Discrimination and Harassment in the Workplace
• What Are The Steps In The Mediation Process?
• No Mo Fo Mo
• Zoom Fatigue Uncovers Mediators’ Secret Weapon
• The Paradox of Pain in Mediation
• When Three Becomes a Crowd
• The Importance of Accurately Attributing Gains on Separate Property in Divorce
• How To Ask Your Parents To Mediate
• Breaking Up Doesn’t Have to Mean Going Broke
• Institutional Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic: Cooperation, Collaboration and Going Virtual
• Racial Justice Conflict: How “Historical” Racial Symbols Shape Perception, Practices, and Policy
• Reassessing the Pros and Cons of Workplace Arbitration
• Online Mediation Worth the Screen Time
• ‘Emotional Agility’ as a Workplace Mediator
• Resolving Construction Disputes Through Baseball Arbitration
• Survey results: What Do Wisconsin Judges Think About Mediating Cases?
• Mediation, Neutrality, Political Conflicts, and the 2020 Elections
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• NAFCM Vulnerable Visions
• “Death by a thousand paper cuts.”
• Criticizing Others
• Using Assertive Communication as a Way to Prevent Conflict in the Workplace
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• Thoughts on Addressing Racial Injustice
• Conflict During COVID–Combined Voices from all Seven Continents
• Conflict Resolution in the Time of COVID-19–Voices from Seven Continents of the World: South America
• Canada – Anti-Suit Injunction Restrains Party Bound by Ontario Arbitration Award
• How is Your Attitude? It makes a difference!
• Mind Reading is Not a Communication Strategy
• From Eye-Rolls to Grimaces: Understanding Body Language in Virtual Mediations
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• How Understanding Neuroscience Improves Mediation
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• Lessons in Gender Diversity: What Can Adjudicator Nominating Bodies Learn from Arbitration?
• Mobilizing Mediatively
• Mediation and Covid19 Share the Same DNA: Liminality and the Adjacent Possible.
• Divorce Mediation: Using Caucusing to Relieve Pandemic Stress
• The Handshake: A Eulogy
• I am no good at making masks, so how can I pitch in during the pandemic?
• People are Idiots; Marriage is Dumb; and You Are All Going to Get Divorced
• Why Cancel When You Can Mediate
• The Changing Landscape of Mediation vis-a-vis Singapore Convention on Mediation
• Why Mediation Advocacy Training for Attorneys?
• Mediation During the Coronavirus: Putting Things in Perspective
• Navigating the Listening in Mediation
• Online Dispute Resolution (ODR): A Viable Solution to Speed and Efficiency Issues in ADR
• The Enugu State Multi-Door Courthouse (ESMDC)
• Trust Must Be Earned; Trust is Fragile
• Communication More Important Than Ever
• Time for India to Move Online!
• Mediation in India: Do we Practice what we Preach?
• Conflict Resolution in the Time of COVID-19–Voices from Seven Continents of the World: Antarctica
• Canada – Injunction and Increased Costs Ordered Where Arbitral Award Funds Were Core of Dispute
• Australia Plans to Force Facebook and Google to Pay for News
• Canada – States’ Submissions Qualify as “Subsequent Practice” in Investor-State Arbitration
• Seven Keys to Unlock Mediation’s Golden Age – The Introduction
• Separating the People from the Problem – Colin Rule and the Rise of Online Dispute Resolution
• Housing, Transforming Community in Times of COVID-19
• Two Words
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• Substance of Negotiation in Mediation
• If a Crime is Admitted, What Then?
• Conflict Coaching: Seven Essential Questions
• How Was It?
• 1st Key-Leadership: Establish Strong, Collaborative, Mediative Leadership
• 1st Key-Leadership: The Youth Shall Lead Us
• 1st Key-Leadership: Adopt The Edinburgh Declaration
• 2nd Key-Data: Bring Objective Science to Mediation
• 2nd Key-Data: Run the Global Pound Conference (GPC) Series Every 5-7 Years
• 2nd Key-Data: Develop a Negotiation Index
• The Delhi Pact, 1950: Negotiating to Not Wage War
• Some Practical Considerations When Mediating Online!
• Feedback, Hot Buttons, and White Fragility
• Simple Magic – A haiku
• Canada – Parties can give court role to examine merits of settlement but not to examine merits of identical consent award
• Conflict Resolution in the Time of COVID-19–Voices from Seven Continents of the World: Africa
• 3rd Key – Education: Teach Mediation as a Core Subject Aligned to Real World Needs
• 3rd Key-Education: Ensure the Future Through Mentoring and Practice Programs for New Mediators
• 3rd Key-Education: Include Learning in Psychology & Brain Science to Enhance Mediator Practice
• 3rd Key-Education: Train Mediators to be Culture-wise, not Culture-blind
• REACH the Three Components of Self-Determination
• Listening Sticks
• Therapeutic Alliances in Organizations
• The AAA-ICDR Foundation and How to Apply for Current Grant Funding
• In an ODR World, Is the Time Right to Switch to Multiple Shorter, Staggered Mediation Sessions?
• Interview with David Hoffman
• 4th Key-Professionalism: Act to Ensure Mediation is Respected as a True Professional Practice
• 4th Key-Professionalism: Modernize the Culture Driving Legal Practice
• 4th Key-Professionalism: Encourage Mediation and Arbitration Integration
• 4th Key-Professionalism: Create a Universal Code of Disclosure
• Canada: Interim Procedural Orders “Immune from Review” During Arbitration Even When Titled “Award”
• Canada: Refusal to Adjourn Hearing Respects Due Process if Recognition/Enforcement Conditions Present
• Using E-Mediation and Online Mediation Techniques for Conflict
• BATNAs and the Emotional Pains from “Positional Negotiation”
• Online Dispute Resolution: You Can Do This!
• Change Power is in the Process: When Listening is Not Enough
• Use Mediators and Police as Conflict Resolution Partners
• Reflective Practice – Observing Mediator Language
• Recent Court ADA Case Review for Conflict Resolution Practitioners
• The Second Mediator? The Role of Mediator’s Assistant
• 5th Key-Technology: Take Advantage of ODR’s Full Potential
• 5th Key-Technology: Embrace and Integrate Relevant New Technologies
• Interview with Richard Salem
• 6th Key-Government: Make Mediation a Prerequisite to Civil Litigation
• 6th Key-Government: Sign, Ratify, and Implement the Singapore Convention on Mediation
• 6th Key-Government: Actively Support UN Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, & Security
• 6th Key-Government: Help Governments Lead Mediation into the Mainstream
• Conflict Resolution in the Time of COVID-19–Voices from Seven Continents of the World: Asia
• Facing the Conflict
• Mediators Needed in this Time Which Tries Our Souls
• Failing to Notice the Generosity of Others
• 7th Key-Usage: Invest to Generate Instinctive User Recognition and Demand
• 7th Key-Usage: Expand the Value of Mediation Into Deal-Making
• 7th Key-Usage: Forge a User-driven Vision for Mediation; Then Fund It
• The Seven Keys Conclusion: Many Paths, One Way
• What Do ‘Lay’ People Know About Justice?
• Let Communities and Police Together Keep the Peace: Op-Ed
• BATNA’S Got to Go
• Designing for the Intensity of Online Mediation
• Conflict Resolution in the Time of COVID-19–Voices from Seven Continents of the World: Europe
• Telephone Mediation in an Age of Social Distancing: Does It Work?
• Legal Framework of Mediation in India and the Scope of Virtual Mediation
• Mediation in the Legal Culture of Italian Lawyers: Some Data from an Empirical Study
• Parenting While Angry
• Did Traditional Mediation Die?
• Kristen Blankley: New Opportunities for Pro Bono in a Pandemic
• Conflict Resolution in the Time of COVID-19–Voices from Seven Continents of the World: Australia
• Advice to Aspiring Mediators
• To Prevent More George Floyd Tragedies, We Need Federal Peacemakers to Bring Communities and Law Enforcement Together
• Conflict Resolution in the Time of COVID-19–Voices from Seven Continents of the World: North America
• George Floyd: A Call to White Leadership
• A Transformational Approach to Conflicts Between Police, Demonstrators, and Communities of Color
• Using Mediation for Family Business Disputes
• Behind the Legal Frustration
• Addressing Ethical Issues in Online Mediations
• Avoiding the Need for Workplace Dispute Resolution
• Mediation Skillset is Essential For Our Survival
• Online Dispute Resolution Pioneer Colin Rule Named Mediate.com CEO
• Family Violence and Family Mediation – Can the two go together?
• Mediating Disputes Involving Financially Shaky Defendants
• Make Your Next Apology Irresistible
• Separation in Isolation
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• Mumbai Set to Host India’s First Masters Course in Mediation
• Ministerial Panel on Extrajudicial Proceedings in Civil and Commercial Matters
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• Congress Awakes!
• What Happens If You are Getting a Military Divorce?
• George Floyd: What Leaders Need To Do Now
• How to Help Parties With Disabilities Without Discriminating
• New NAA Opinion on Requiring Video Hearings
• Support Tools for Video Conferencing During ODR
• Why is This Mediation Different from All Other Mediations?
• The Mediators – Views from the Eye of the Storm Vol. I
• Eye of the Storm Leadership
• Exploring Mediation in Netflix’s Tiger King
• Online Dispute Resolution (ODR): The Great Tool in Times of Pandemic
• Resolucion de Conflictos en Linea (ODR) La Gran Herramienta en Tiempos de Pandemia
• Facilitating Positive Change in the Workplace
• Tips for Divorcing Couples – Videos 2 through 5
• In Zoom We Trust
• Asking for Help When in Conflict
• The Kindness of Strangers During a Pandemic
• Co-parenting and COVID-19
• Getting Started in Mediation
• What Mediators Must Consider as They Work
• Fostering Mediation in the Middle East Construction Industry
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• ODR Tips and Tricks
• Remembering The Keystone Conference
• The Death of Traditional Mediation – An Obituary
• 4 Things You Definitely Need to Become an Accomplished Online Mediator
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• Surviving the Pandemic – Advice from 74 Family Experts
• COVID-19 World Disorder and Reflection for Conflict Management with the Use of ODR Platforms
• Empathy in Mediation
• Who Gets the COVID-19 Stimulus Check in the Divorce?
• 10 Co-parenting Recommendations for the COVID-19 Crisis, A Mediator’s Perspective
• Mediating Amidst a Crisis: Is Online Mediation a Solution for India?
• Bold Moves
• Making Sense of COVID Through the Lens of Mediation
• Lessons from Teaching Facilitation Online
• Violence Against Women and Girls Pandemic and Gendered Dimension of COVID-19
• Will Your Relationship Survive the Coronavirus Lockdown?
• Post Coronavirus Dispute Resolution: To Sue or to Survive
• What Is Your Mediation Background?
• The Coronavirus Crisis Provides an Opportunity to Adopt Better Systems for Licensing Lawyers than the Bar Exam
• Impatience, Conflict, and Covid-19
• The Space Between Unpeace and Peace
• Five Reasons Why You Must Listen at Mediation
• Are Demographics Destiny for Technology in Mediation?
• Mediators Are Society’s PPE for Conflict and Difficult Decisions
• Research Shows We Can Work Toward Peace Through Understanding
• You Can Lead Trainings
• Helping Not Hoarding
• Using MagicEye to Teach the Art of Reframing
• The Brain Under Conflict
• Cutback Planning: Consultation in a Time of Retrenchment
• Sample Online Mediation Agreement to Mediate
• Introducing a New Definition of Mediation
• Negotiating Among Workplace Dictators
• Courts Mediating Online with Zoom
• ODR in Africa: The Emergent Face of Dispute Resolution Post COVID 19
• The Next New Normal in Law, Dispute Resolution, and Legal Education
• Why?
• It’s Time to Talk….
• Be Kind
• Crisis Communication & Covid-19: Did our politicians test positive for ‘empathy’?
• Interview with Don Saposnek
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• Pulling Together
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• Research Concludes Regional International Organizations are Critical Mediators
• CV-19 Crisis Brings Heightened Need for Community-based Conflict Resolution
• Alternative Dispute Resolution in a Virtual World
• India Signs the Singapore Mediation Convention
• Interview with John Ford: The Future of Workplace Mediation
• Resolving Pressing Issues in Divorce Mediation (video)
• Mediators Green Pledge
• Consent in Mediation
• Co-Parenting During the Coronavirus Pandemic
• Divorce Mediation: The Healthy Way to Break Up
• 7 Financial Tips for Small Businesses Operating during the COVID Pandemic
• Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution Career Resources
• Conflict in Confined Spaces
• Building Trust Online: The Realities of Telepresence for Mediators Engaged in Online Dispute Resolution, 
• The Psychological Complications of Resolving Disputes Online
• Voluntary Mediator Certification – What does that mean?
• Mediation in India: An Introduction
• Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law
• How COVID-19 is Impacting Court ADR Programs
• Handling Conflict in Chaos
• We Hear What We Want to Hear!
• The Business Case for Neutral Facilitation in the Days of the Coronavirus (COVID-19)
• Family Mediation 2.0 – Integrating Online Capacities
• Mediating with Zoom
• “Next Week, You Will Teach Your Courses Online”: A Reassuring Introduction to Pandemic Pedagogy
• In an Era of Chaos with the Coronavirus; The Solution to Support our Leaders is Online Mediation
• Crash Course in Remote Management – Video
• Mediation and “VED” Analysis
• Tools to Use When Peace Comes to Shove
• Conflict Haikus
• Haikus about Self-Quarantine
• What, Me Worry?
• Cope with Conflict During COVID-19
• Seven Guidelines for Parents Who Are Divorce/Separated and Sharing Custody of Children During the COVID19 Pandemic
• A Conversation on the Challenges of Mediation Practice
• Moving Online in Pandemic: Preamble
• Part 2: Moving Online in Pandemic: Ecocycle to Attend to What is Shifting
• Global Pandemics, National Borders, and Political Problem-solving
• Mediation for Insurance Claims – A Gamechanger on the Horizon
• Four Reasons to Try Divorce Mediation
• March, A Month to Celebrate California Mediation Week
• Connecting Social Equity to Our Work
• Interview with Ken Cloke
• Managing Business Relationships During the Global Coronavirus Health Crisis: A Way Forward
• Book Review: The Singapore Convention on Mediation: A Commentary
• Health, Mediation, and the Sustainable Development Goal 3
• 12 Dispute Mediation Techniques for Managers
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• My Favorite Resource Featuring Joel Shapiro
• Navigating a Business Crisis Resulting from the Coronavirus (COVID-19) – Video
• Interview with Howard Gadlin
• Being Neutral is a Myth
• Mediated Settlements: The Next Realm of Dispute Resolution in India
• People are Idiots
• In Negotiations, Are Women More Ethical Than Men?
• Parenting by Looking Away: Sometimes the Best Help Doesn’t Look like Help
• Update on CPR’s Employment-Related Mass Claims Protocol
• How Much Does Divorce Really Cost?
• Charlie Young Interview – Mediation in Schools and Prisons
• Reframing: A Conflict Resolver’s Superpower
• Benefits of Volunteer Mediation
• Burying the Hatchet
• Break & Repair vs. Preventive Maintenance in Workplace Conflict
• Online Dispute Resolution: A Primer
• The Law Can Be Dangerous to Lawyers’ Mental Health
• Bernie Mayer Interview – The Future of Mediation
• How Do You Handle a Pathological Liar at Work?
• Watch Out for the Non-Verbal Cues!
• Risk Factors for Workplace Interpersonal Conflict: How to Prevent it Before It Begins
• Measuring Success in Mediation: An Outline
• Self Improvement Journey
• What Is A “High Conflict Divorce,” Anyway?
• Promises, Promises
• The GPC North America Report
• The Perfect Mediation (humor video)
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• Foundation for Comprehensive Dispute Resolution
• What About Your Furry Friends?
• My Favorite Resource Featuring Howard Herman
• Keeping the Peace
• Here’s Your Theory-of-Change Book
• STEP IN to Improvisational Negotiation
• Online Negotiation Strategies: Email and Video-conferencing
• Are You Listening?
• When No One Wants to Talk…
• How to Calculate and Use BATNAs and Bottom Lines
• Statistics from Franklin County, Ohio’s ODR Program
• ODR Beginning to Find Takers in India
• A ‘Mediator’s Touchdown’: Tactfully concluding imperfect conferences
• The Beauty and Terror of Change
• What if You Die? Divorcing and Death
• Theory of Change Symposium – Part 5 and Coming Attractions
• Are the Flow of Interruptions in the Workday Actually Reducing Mental as Well as Work Flow?
• Overwork and Conflict
• “Abusing the Mediation Process”
• Preparing for that Dreaded Conversation
• Ombudsman vs. Mediator
• The Intersection and Impact of Personality Type and Conflict Management Style
• The Effect of Power in Mediation
• 10 Mediation Tips for Settling Business Disputes
• Dividing the Burial Plot in Divorce
• Cost of Workplace Conflict
• Connecting With Our Values
• Negotiating With My Client
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• 5 (Perhaps Unexpected) Ways to Reduce Legal Fees When Getting a Divorce
• Megatrends in Technology
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• Somewhere Between Reasonable and Crazy
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• New Study Evaluates the Role of Misconception in Creating Conflict
• Directive Impulses Run Deep
• Mediation versus Court in Divorce
• Dispute Resolution and the Catalyst for Change in Cyprus: A Fellow’s Journey
• Presentation of An Evening with Mary Parker Follett by Albie Davis
• Do Post-Nuptial Agreements Belong in Marital Mediation?
• Did You Just Relinquish Control?
• Gossip Feeds Conflict
• Recent Research Proposes Walking as Creative Conflict Resolution Practice
• My Favorite Resource: A Year in Review
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• It is All a Matter of Perspective
• ABA Presents Mediate.com with Institutional Award
• Pressure-Cooker Mediation: Stick to basics to make a difference
• A Guide To Creative Christmas Plans For Divorced Parents
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• Comentario de Libro de Alberto Elisavetsky
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• Building Breakthroughs: Video Interview with Louise Phipps Senft
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• This I Believe
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• New Horizon for International Commercial Mediation: The Singapore Convention
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• Implicit Bias is Everywhere: Even in the ER!
• How to Manage Conflict at Work: The Argument for Utilizing Emotional Intelligence
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• It Takes Just One Moment to Change, For Good or Bad
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• Being a Guide
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• ACR Taskforce on Safety: Recommended Guidelines — Part 2 in Series
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• Mediation vs. Arbitration vs. Litigation: The differences you need to know about in business
• What a Himalayan Adventure Taught Me About Connection and Dialogue
• Why Mediation Should be Part of Health and Wellness
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• RSI Publishes Report on Improving Pre-Mediation Screening for Intimate Partner Violence through Proposed Online Tool
• ACR Taskforce on Safety: Recommended Guidelines — Part 1 in Series
• Interview with Jim Melamed, CEO of Mediate.com
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• La Mediacion Interdisciplinaria y el Convenio de Singapur – en Espanol
• How to Get Your Spouse to Agree to Mediation
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• The Reality of Impasse: Show me the money!
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• Reintroducing Mediation To Millennial India – Part 2
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• Changing the Way I Handle Verbal Attacks
• Transforming the Healer-I
• Trucking Company Will Pay $22,500 and Make Policy Changes to Settle Disability Discrimination Lawsuit
• The Good and Bad of Anger in Negotiation!
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• The Roots of Intolerance and Opposition to Compromise: The Effects of Absolutism on Political Attitudes
• A Guide: How to Collect Text, Message, Phone and Email Evidence
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• Comparing Mediation And Lok Adalat: Toward An Integrated Approach To Dispute Resolution In India
• Effective Communication Makes for Optimal Mediation – Part 2
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• Reintroducing Mediation To Millennial India
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• Interview with John Lande
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• Do Parties Trust Mediators When They’re Not in the Same Room?
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• Effectively Managing Communications With Employees Generally–And In Workplace Investigations
• What Is Divorce Mediation and Why Might it Be Good for You?
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• Have We Lost the Ability to be Curious?
• The Need to Be Right
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• The Role of Mediation in Investor-State Disputes
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• The Linctus of Choosing a Mediator
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• The Family Mediation Process – Step by Step Guide
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• Interview with David J. Smith – The Future of Mediation – Starting a Career
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• A New Tool in my Toolbox!
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• The 5 Pillars of Conversational Intelligence
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• Time to Think About Jurisdiction and Look to Scotland
• Silence is Golden!
• Lead Without Bullying
• HOBAS: Understanding the Data Behind U.S. Crisis Hostage Negotiation
• Mediate.com Recognized as a Top Attorney Directory!
• New Jersey Statute Regulates Settlement Agreements
• Self-Blame in Conflict
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• The Fault Lines of the Contemporary Political Divide – Part 3
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• Green Book’s Insights Into a Deeper Diversity
• The Fault Lines of the Contemporary Political Divide – Part 2
• Companies Need You!
• Wanted: Diverse Divorce Practitioners. Why Diversity is Good for All of Us
• The Hypothetical or Trial Balloon Tactic
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• Pew Charitable Trusts Calls for Standardization of US Court ODR Programs
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• Conflict in the Mediator’s Backyard
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• Embodied Conflict – Chapter II. The Neural Encoding Function
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• Introduction to Embodied Conflict: the neural roots of conflict and communication
• Building Blocks of Mediation, Communication, and Feedback
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• What’s Aspiration and What’s Bullying?
• Maybe, It’s Not As Bad As You Think
• Federal Court Sends Data Privacy Dispute to Arbitration
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• The Fault Lines of the Contemporary Ideological Divide – Part 1
• Using Neuroscience to Understand Stress and Improve Mediation
• Evaluative Mediation– Elephants in the Room?
• Mediation in Child Protection Cases
• Confused Conversations
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• An Exploratory Study Based on USA Marriage Mediators’ Views
• 2018 BBB Complaints Against Mediation.com
• One Size Does Not Fit All – And the War Within
• Should Retired Judges Mediate?
• A Strong Foundation in Canadian Collaborative, Consensus Processes
• Becoming Ourselves
• How Three Geniuses Solved Workplace Conflicts
• Strategy v Policy
• How SINS ful Are You?
• Stepping Up To Conflict
• Ken Cloke Discusses Political Negotiation – Video
• Ombuds and Mediation
• Canadian Business: 5 Ways Co-Mediating Benefits Your Own Mediation Business
• Get Curious!
• A Lawyer Who Likes to Coach: What’s Up with That?
• Journey Toward a Social Lab Approach to Change
• BC Justice: Through the Eye of a Fish
• Should Guilt and Shame Have a Place in Mediation?
• The NFL’s Moral Disengagement
• Why Investigations Always Need to Look Twice
• Being Kind in Conflict
• Flip the Problem to Illuminate Hidden Solutions
• Canadian Ombudsman Impartiality Is a Delicate Balance
• A Case of Bad Bargaining Practices
• 7 Tips for Writing a Strong Mediation Brief
• What Will Be the Future of ADR in US Legal Education?
• New California Law Requires Informed Consent to Mediation
• Seven Ideas for a Better Divorce
• A Glimpse into the Future of Alternative Dispute Resolution in China
• New Mediator Self-Reflection Tool
• Effective Conflict Management versus a Quick “Fix”
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• Why Divorce Mediation Makes Sense
• Getting Hitched? 6 Tips for Pre-Marriage Relationships
• Does Your Pet Need a Divorce Lawyer?
• Our Pet Friendly Legislature (and other new Laws) for 2019!
• 5 Prudent Ways to Talk to Kids About Your Divorce
• Mother Lode Claim Jump
• Hosting Gregorio Billikopf’s Empathic Listening Audio Seminar
• Civil Discourse: The Means or the End?
• Online Dispute Resolution Moves to the Courts
• Why Everyone Should Take Mediation Training
• Duality: A Natural Lifestyle, and Not a Catastrophe
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• Mediation Skills for the Indian Audience
• The Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Book Review: NEGOTIATION Things Corporate Counsel Need to Know but Were Not Taught by Michael Leathes (Wolters Kluwer 2018)
• My Favorite Resource Featuring Peter Salem
• Choose the Road Less Traveled in Conflict
• Implicit Biases May Be A Good Thing!
• New Trainers Guides
• The Impact of Mediation in India
• Peacemaking: The Fulfillment of the Legal Profession
• Where To, MeToo?
• Self-Imposed Ground Rules: The Only Kind Worth Having
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• El Mediador con sí Mismo y la Satisfacción en el Proceso de Mediación. Necesariamente Ensamblados.
• Eyes Wide Shut
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• Case Study of Negotiations with Honey and Vinegar, Carrots and Sticks
• How Mediation Can Improve Your Workplace Morale
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• Thomas-Kilmann, Hammer’s ICSI, or Style Matters?
• NEW: Mediate.com – APFM Video Series
• Beyond Solutions
• Stop Being a Damned Fool
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• Q&A: Kidnapping and Extortion: Just another day at the office
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• Who Are We
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• Even More Conflict Resolution Tips
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• Conflict is All in the Mind–or is it?
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• How Indigenous Voices Can Get Lost in Mediation
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• Legal Stress
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• Every Dispute is Two Disputes
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• How to Deconflict Situations for One’s Personal Benefit
• Mediation, Mediator, Mediation
• Keep the Heat On
• If You’d Only Told Me
• Anticipatory Governance: Do You Know What It Is?
• Happy Thanksgiving !!!!
• How the Mediator Gains the Parties’ Trust
• Pump the Brakes
• Is the Einstellung Effect Interfering With Your Problem Solving?
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• Carrying the Weight of Conflict
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• Mediation Myths: Barriers to the Use of Mediation
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• Free Expert Interviews for the 10 Toughest Behaviors at Work – Challenging Workplace Behavior Summit
• A Clear Description of Confidentiality in Mediation
• 7 Traits of the Modern Sociopath and Psychopath
• Forget the “Carrot and Stick” Approach!
• Zealous Advocacy Can Kill
• Mr. Rogers and the Power of Persuasion – Video
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• Mediator as Judge
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• Dishonesty
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• The Power of Trying in Conflict Management
• Satisfying Our Clients’ Emotional Due Process Needs
• Heartbroken in Pittsburgh
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• Bringing Down a Giraffe
• Conflict in the 21st century- a revised look at our biology
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• Another Wrong Arbitration Decision in New Jersey
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• Jim Melamed Selected For First APFM Outstanding Mediator Award
• The Mediation Advocate’s Alphabet
• 10 Do’s and Don’ts of Successful Co-Parenting After Divorce
• How Can We Fix Legal System Failures to Properly Handle Sexual Offenses?
• The Next Level of Impartiality
• Powerful Words on Inclusion and the Impact to Follow
• Ethical Fading
• Why Wouldn’t You Work Together to Solve Your Legal Problem?
• Blind Justice: Can Individuals Be Bound to Arbitration Clauses They Can’t Read?
• The Type of Problem That Makes Conflict Resolution Harder
• Concerns on the New Singapore Convention
• APFM: The Dream, Progress to Date, and New Goals
• Weapons and Sports Agents
• Mediation Power Imbalances: Weighing the Arguments
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• Book Review: The Master Agreement by Jay Bultz
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• Like the Fireflies Generating Light
• Como Las Luciernagas Generando Luz – en espanol
• Family Mediation and Domestic Abuse
• Call for Community Mediation Surveys
• Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen!
• How to Break Free of An Addictive Relationship
• My Favorite Resource Featuring Catherine Geyer
• Why Do I Want You to Stay in the Room?
• Making Referrals to Divorce Mediation or Family Mediation
• Reality-Testing Questions for Real Life and Simulations – and Ideas for Stone Soup Assignments
• Never Make Assumptions About Colleagues
• Conflict Assumptions
• R-E-S-P-E-C-T — Find Out What it Means to Me!
• Mandatory Pre-institution Commercial Mediation in India
• The Science of Negotiation
• Generating Multiple Options!
• The Mediation Miracle
• ODR as an Effective Method to Ensure Access to Justice: The Worrying, But Promising Brazilian Case
• Las Medidas Autosatisfactivas, en la Justicia Peruana
• Building Coalitions and Story Telling
• Peacemakers of All Faiths Gather at Ismaili Jamatkhana Plano for Restoring Community Day
• If I Had To Do It Again…
• Mediation Summit in Changsha, China
• Affirming the Good in Workplace Conflict—the positive role of affirmations
• Justice
• New Mediation Confidentiality Law
• Why Don’t We Mediate the “Big” Disputes?
• Do We Need to Raise Our Voice?
• Self-Restraint: A Door to True Liberty
• What Do Litigants Really Want?
• 3 Ways to Turn Adversaries into Problem-Solving Partners
• People-Pleasing
• Stop Giving Others Insult Power
• Sample Agreement To Mediate
• Team Diversity, Conflict and the Need for Robust Discussion – Part 1
• The Importance of Trust in the Mediator
• Co-Parenting Tips During a Divorce
• 5 Common Misconceptions Surrounding Family Mediation
• How Avoidance Can Help You with Workplace Conflict
• Paying Forward Conflict Lessons
• How to Express a Concern Without Making Things Worse
• 10 things to think about BEFORE you decide whether to litigate and which lawyer to hire
• Mediation and Conciliation in UAE
• Finale of Birbrower
• The Tax Reform Law Impacts Families
• Evaluative Mediation—Curriculum modules
• Revenge as a Learning Experience
• Feel The Earth Move – Shifts In The International Dispute Resolution Landscape
• Addressing Your Child’s Repressed Anger
• Meditate, Mediate, Medicate: Is there a Difference?
• Construction Mediation: Ten Tips for Success
• Children Find Peace in the Forest
• Italian Mediation Model – Video
• Dissing of Civil Discourse pt. 3
• Values Conflict
• International Arbitration-Federal Jurisdiction & Provisional Remedies
• How to Write an Effective Mediation Summary in 6 Steps
• Morality and Mediation: Can We Reunite the Children?
• Families Belong Together
• Construction – Early Completion, Who Owns the “Float”?
• A Case Study of Murphy’s Law in Missouri
• Past the Time Is the Right Time!
• Sample Mediation Ground Rules
• Reconsidering How to Honor a Father’s Wishes
• Mediation in Juvenile Dependency Court: Multiple Perspectives – Part 2
• Conflicts over groundwater and aquifers profiled in recently-published book: Advances in Groundwater Governance
• Crisis Counselor Skills: Helping People In Crisis… in 160 Characters or Less
• In Praise of a Trial
• What Could be the Source of Modern Polarization?
• When Conflict In The Workplace Escalates To Emotional Abuse
• The Roots of Mediation in Florida and its Worldwide Influence
• Mediation in Juvenile Dependency Court: Multiple Perspectives
• An Alien Perspective
• The Narrative Arc of Conflict
• Career in Conflict Resolution?
• The Science of Stress and How Our Emotions Affect Our Susceptibility to Burnout and Disease
• The Exceptional Power of Vision
• Reframing
• Prenuptial Agreements and the New Tax Law: Is There a Problem on the Horizon?
• Spiritual Journeys in a Material World: Thoughts about Spirituality for Divorce Professionals
• Nonverbal Communication, Difficult Conversations (and autonomous cars)
• Up Against a Wall
• 12 Tips for Mediating Complex Business and Government Disputes
• SOAS Arbitration in Africa Survey
• For Those Feeling Generous: A Gift for Clients, Friends – Book Review
• Lean into Liminality
• Ask Yourself This Kind of Question When an Argument Rattles You
• Being Grateful for Some Conflicts
• When Teachers, Parents, and Students are Victims of Stockholm Syndrome
• Establishing Rapport in Mediation
• Lessons from the Iroquois
• Leaving Facebook
• Lest We Forget
• Mediators Should Have Strategies and Skills to Break Impasses
• Doing Nothin’!
• Thinking About Using Mediation to Resolve Your Employment Dispute Without Going Through Litigation First?
• Bee in Your Bonnet
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• Child Dependency Mediation Update
• Expectations and Self-Determination
• Keep Your Enemies Closer
• Exciting ADR Developments in China and Hong Kong
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• SCOTUS to Consider Delegation of “Wholly Groundless” Arbitrability Claims
• Dispute Resolution 101!
• Ten Keys to Unlock Mediation’s Golden Age
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• I’m Not Neutral About Neutrality: I’m Partial to Multi-Partiality
• Building a Golden Bridge and Other Lessons from Dr. William Ury
• People Pleasers in Conflict
• Bullied or Mobbed? The Dangerous Search for Vindication
• Not Just Another Set of Lamb Chops!
• 7 Reasons Why You Should Keep Communicating
• A Toddler’s Wisdom on Conflict Resolution
• Responsibility in Mediation: Who has it? – Part 2
• Getting a Divorce? Mediate, Don’t Litigate.
• Disability Mediation : An Overview
• Two Converging Trends
• The Conflict Iceberg
• ADR Forms, Methods and Practices
• Why Is Conflict Such a Big Deal?
• Measuring Progress on Team Agreements Worth Keeping
• Norms and Nonviolence
• “Trusting” the Expert
• Planners are No Long Generalists with a Specialty
• Responsibility in Mediation: Who has it?
• Top Ten Ways To Protect Your Kids From The Fallout Of A High Conflict Break-Up
• Mediation as a Modern Alternative Dispute Resolution Device – part 2
• Mediator Ethics: The Quest for Justice LEP Litigants and Bilingual Mediation
• BATNAs: A Practical Tool for Mediators and a Risk
• Never Underestimate the Importance of Emotional Intelligence
• The Edinburgh Declaration of International Mediators
• See That Lake Over There? Fancy a Swim?
• The Gang of Fourteen
• Everything Is Important, Still Nothing Is Important
• Mediation as a Modern Alternative Dispute Resolution Device – part 1
• A Modest Proposal
• Transformative Dialogue – The Salvation of Democracy?
• The Time for Dispute Resolution Alternatives (DRA) has come
• Being Good to Ourselves When in Conflict
• The Dissing of Civil Discourse pt. 2
• Why Everyone at Work Needs Conflict Management Skills (and how you can get them)
• The Cracks are Where the Light Gets In
• How to Take a Scientific Approach to Improving Employee Productivity
• DR Clauses in Contract
• Online Dispute Resolution: the “New Normal”
• Reflections on North and South Korea
• Adult Kids of Divorcees Should Be Spared from the Drama
• The Mann Gulch Fire
• Five Huge Benefits of Choosing Mediation
• 3 Reasons Agreements Get Derailed: Tales of Team Conflict
• Dissing of Civil Discourse pt. 1
• The Need For Preparation!
• Two-Step to Prioritize Relationship
• The New Handshake: Using ODR to Create Value for Consumers and Businesses
• This Common (but faulty) Reasoning Leads to Bad Decisions
• Managing a Resentment Relapse at Work
• A New Anagram from Michael Leathes
• ADR Pilot Schemes and Programs
• How to Tank a Mediation Without Even Trying
• Two Simple Steps For A More Successful Mediation
• Meaning of Space and its Use in the Mediation Procedure
• Why I wrote “The Generous Prenup: How to Support Your Marriage and Avoid the Pitfalls”
• 3 Reasons Why You Want to Mediate Guardianship Disputes
• Listen to Your Heart, Not Your Friends & Family
• How Teams Can Work Together Despite Opposing Views
• People with Depression Use Language Differently – Here’s How to Spot it
• How to Lead with Less Anger
• An Update on Prior Disclosure
• Figuring Out George Mitchell’s Real Contribution to the Good Friday Agreement
• Interview with Howard Gadlin – Views from the Eye of the Storm
• Want to Know the “Secret” to Managing Confrontational and Aggressive Behaviors?
• Does Your Practice Include Church and Synagogue Mediation?
• Amplifying Ombuds Trends with Data
• Team or Organizational Commitment?
• Recognizing The Signs Of A Conflict Storm
• Over Confidence Can Kill!
• Neutral Analysis: A Powerful and Effective Tool
• Backhanded Compliments
• The Ghosts of Melos
• Restorative Practices in Juvenile Criminal Proceedings
• The Intractability Barrier in Child Dependency
• Start Protecting The Public Before Raising State Bar Fees
• Spaces for Peace
• If You Are Not Willing to Do the Unusual, You Will Have to Settle for the Ordinary
• Optimizing the Use of Joint Sessions in Mediation
• Why Are You And Your Sibling Fighting Over Your Parent’s House?
• Actualization and Transfiguration
• More FAQ’s from Mediators
• Ten Tips Toward Client Arbitration Satisfaction
• Social Media-tion: A Bridge for Young Mediators to Enter–and Re-Define–The Profession?
• What I Learned About Conflict From Cheetahs
• Healthy Disagreements Can Actually Bring You and Your Spouse Closer Together
• A Modest Proposal to Mitigate Sexual Harassment and Misconduct in the Workplace
• Conflict at Work—the Power of Envisioning Harmony
• Is the Overconfidence Effect Sabotaging Your Communication?
• Settlement Ethics 101
• Strategies for Giving Feedback That People Can Hear
• New Hope in Dealing With an Abusive Supervisor
• Conflict in Context
• Be a Glass Half-full Mediator
• Caucus: An Aid in Mediation
• Problem Solvers: New Profession
• Splitting America Redux: Implications for Keeping our Kids Safe
• Healing Effects of Mediation on Kids to Achieve and Spread Infinite Positive Outcomes
• Playing the Blame Game the Right Way
• How to Understand Bad Feedback at Competitions and How to Tell What’s Good
• Mini-Grant Deadline Approaching for Community Mediation
• Working with Challenging Family Situations: A Mediator’s Perspective
• Why Ego Management is Key to Effective Mediation
• Negotiating Like a Woman – How Gender Impacts Communication between the Sexes
• The Joy Of Impasse: The Neuroscience Of ‘Insight’ And Creative Problem Solving
• Small Claims Courts 2.0 – Online Dispute Resolution in Action at Franklin County Municipal Court
• Damage Quantification in Delaware for Breaches of Contract in Post-Merger Litigation
• The Medium Makes the Difference!
• What it Takes to be Conflict Masterful
• Dispute Management Plans and ADR
• Supreme Court’s Grant of Cert Will Examine Difference Between “Arbitrability” and “Jurisdiction”
• Miscellany: A Free Negotiation Teaching Package, Using Decision Trees in Mediation, and the Legality of BATNAs
• In Memorium: Perri Ellen Mayes, Leading Milwaukee Mediator – 1960 – 2018
• Mediators and Interpreters: A Team Approach
• Teaching Social Justice on Campus for Self Awareness, Community Sustainability, and Systems Change
• Change Is Coming: Tax Reform Act Punishes Divorcing Couples
• Difficult Conversations in the Modern Era of (Anti-) Social Media
• Conflict Styles: Digital vs Paper
• SCOTX Holds Payday Lender Did Not Waive Right to Arbitration
• How to Backpedal After Saying the Wrong Thing
• Eye of the Storm Leadership: Closure at Appomattox
• In Memoriam: Frank E.A. Sander, pioneer in ADR (1927-2018)
• Norwegian Legislature to Consider Mandating Student Ombuds for All Universities
• Video Presentation: 50 Ways to Break an Impasse: Tips, Tricks, Traps and Tools
• Styles of Mediation: Facilitative, Evaluative, and Transformative Mediation
• A Conversation With Antonio Piazza
• How to Get Rid of 80% of Your Unhappiness in Relationships
• How Turkey Went from Virtually Zero to 30,828 Mediations in Just One Month
• Reflections on Parkland, from a Broward County Parent / Conflict Resolution Practitioner
• You Look Like Someone I Can Trust!
• Spirituality of Conflict Transformation
• Letting Conflict Define Us
• Managing Conflict with your Inner Critic
• The Ethics of Retaliation
• The Force Present in a Truly Transformative Mediation
• ADR in the Spirit of the Season
• Court-based Dispute Resolution
• Being Sorry
• Setting Boundaries with a Workplace Bully
• Can this Key Ingredient Protect Your Marriage from Relationship Conflict?
• 4 Game-Changing Tips to Build Your Divorce Mediation Practice
• Stone Soup: Do the Best Trainings, Continuing Education, Programs, and Conference Sessions You Can
• FAQ’s from Mediators
• Do Android Mediators Dream of Electric Agreements?
• Educating the Dispute Resolvers of the Future
• Talking Stick Breaks Impasse
• Make Mediation a Life Skill and a Core Value
• Mediating With Sharks Is No Walk In The Park
• Gone, But Not Forgotten
• World Health Organization Ombuds Says Dysfunctional Management is Impacting Mission
• The NFL Can Make a Difference by Choosing Mediation
• Conflicting Negotiation Styles and Strategies: Comparing Perspectives from Saudi Arabia & USA
• Ask the Judge – Do I need an Attorney’s Help to Create a Parenting Plan?
• Three Quotations from Lincoln on Conflict Resolution
• What Does the 2017 Tax Law Mean for Divorcing Couples?
• I Like You!
• Listening to Your Triggers – How to Suspend Judgment When You Are Angry
• Mediating Family Property and Estate Conflicts: Keeping the Peace and Preserving Family Wealth
• Eye of the Storm Leadership: The Quirky Art of Mugwumps
• California Legislature Hears Testimony on Role of Ombuds in Sexual Misconduct Matters
• The Lebanese: Heading into an Authentic Reconciliation, and Creating a Potential Reconciliatory Force in a Volcanic Region
• Three Easy Pieces
• Spark a Shift in Perspective with this Question
• Criminal Justice and ADR
• Shift Dynamics with One Word
• In Memoriam: Joseph Markowitz
• Mediation Models: What is Best?
• Chipping Away at Self-determination
• Language Patterns and Mediation
• Accommodator? No, How About “Invisible”?
• Hiring a Divorce Attorney? Buyer Beware
• Making Peace Our Business
• Stone Soup: Takeaways from New Hampshire Mediation Training
• In Memoriam: CPR Chairman Emeritus Charles Renfrew
• Is an Adversarial Process Our Best and Highest Good? The Case for Early Mediation
• Mediating Blood Feuds in the Cretan Mountains
• Champions of Peace
• When the Day is Done
• The Picasso Trick for Better Problem Solving
• Three Surprising Leadership Skills
• Objections to Joint Sessions
• ACCUO Publishes Study of Ombuds’ Impact
• On the Road to Solutions that Work for All
• Why Gray is My Favorite Color
• Overcoming Clients’ Road Blocks in Conflict Management Coaching
• The Role of the Apology in Abuse Redress Schemes
• Confusing Dispute Resolution Jargon
• Conflict Resolutions for 2018!
• Arbitration of Criminal Plea Bargains? A Step Too Far Says Ninth Circuit
• Children and ADR
• Letter to Kelly
• End of the Year: The Kids are Alright
• Plan Teambuilding Now
• Mediating Minimally
• Addressing Inequality and Systemic Oppression: How to Interrupt the Increasing Gap Between the Haves and Have-Nots?
• The Arbitration from Hell and How the New York Courts Got It Wrong
• Eye of the Storm Leadership: Guerilla Bridge Building
• Mediation Advocacy Beyond the Norm
• ISO Strong Mediator
• Tips for Keeping the Kids out of the Conflict
• When it Seems Trivial, Pay Close Attention
• When Your Boss Is A Bully
• I Would Never …
• IOA to Offer International Scholarships to 2018 Conference
• Do You Use “BATNA” Wrong?
• The Four Questions Of Anger
• Dear Self-Represented Client
• Inner Tools to Survive Workplace Bullying (part 2)
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People and ADR
• Do colleges and universities in America do more harm than good? Of course not!
• Family Business Succession: The Joys and Challenges
• Restoring Autonomy to the Clients – A Mediator’s True Calling?
• Dividing the Marital Home
• It’s Not Just the Romantic Stuff That Makes a Marriage Special
• Getting Woke: How Do We Awaken A Sense Of Injustice?
• Embracing ADR
• Mind Mapping and the Transformative Framework
• Compassion: A Route to Realism and to Detecting Impossible Possibilities
• Lawyer-Mediators: Time to Update your Mediation Agreement?
• Attention Mediators in the State of Texas: Mandatory Training Required for Family Neutrals by January 2018
• Anger Has Its Benefits !!
• Conflict Audit: How Much Is Conflict Costing Your Organization?
• Take Five! – How Adults Can Benefit From A Time Out
• Mind Your Own Beeswax
• The NFL Should Try Mediation First
• Lessons From the ABA’s Excellent Report on Mediator Techniques
• Argue For Your Limitations
• 4 Quick Techniques to Help You Think Straight in an Argument
• Inner Tools to Survive Workplace Bullying
• SCOTUS to Hear Oral Argument Over Constitutionality of Review of Patents
• An Overview of the New York Rules of Professional Conduct in the Context of Mediation
• In Praise of (Good) Disagreements
• Divorce Mediation: A Prototype for Positive Co-Parenting
• How Will the Way We Resolve Our Workplace and Family Business Disputes Impact our Thanksgiving Meal?
• Universities are Underinvesting in Efforts to Improve the Quality of Teaching
• Roundup: Legislation with Mediation or Arbitration…Maybe for the future?
• Bringing Your Best Self to a Conflict
• Conciliation
• Lawyer Negotiation: Theory, Practice & Law – Book Review
• The Case for a Fresh Approach to Commercial Cross-Border Mediation
• It Happened in Mediation – Believe It or Not
• The Question That Brings Hamster Wheel Debates to a Standstill
• Crying Your Eyes Out
• I Apologize For Suggesting It !
• Courts and Attorneys Aren’t Doing Enough to Inform Litigants about Their ADR Options
• Article Profiles Role of Higher Ed Ombuds as Workplace Conflict Experts
• Addressing Injustice: Why and How Do People Seek Justice?
• ‘Think Like a Mediator’ Conflict Resolution Program at Rikers Island
• Singapore: The Hub of International Commercial Dispute Resolution
• ADR in the Regulation of Aged Care
• The Only Impartial Direction is Up
• Go Back to the Future to Discover How Your Agreement Could Fail
• The One That Got Away
• Mediation Creates and Spreads Infinite Love
• Negotiation – Part 7
• What Not to Say After Violence
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• Which Mediator Techniques Are Most Effective? Report Points to Some with Potential
• A Grand Theory of Personality and Environment
• Realizing Our Professional Goals
• The Kindness of Strangers—Wildfires, Empathy, and Conflict
• Legal Battle Continues After Arbitrator Upholds Suspension of Dallas Cowboys Running Back
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• Intercultura Y Resolucion de Conflictos
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• “¿Es posible vivir de la mediación?” ¡Último online del año por Alberto Elisavetsky! Evento no arancelado
• Another View of the New FRCP Rules
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• To Vent or Not to Vent, That is the Question!
• High-Profile Attention for Mediation in Billion Dollar Family Dispute
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• BATNA, MLATNA – No Big Difference, Right?
• Been Asked to Take Part in a Mediation? Your FAQs Answered
• Encourage Young Aspiring Family Mediators to Enter the Field: Their Careers, Your Business, and Our Profession Will Benefit
• 2015’s the 100th Anniversary of the Women at the Hague: Lessons for Today (Fall 2015)
• Celebrating the Work and Person of Special Education Mediation Champion Marshall Peter (video)
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• How Can We Help in Major Social Conflicts, If At All?
• Make the Most of Your Mediation – The Personal Injury Case
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• 7 Simple Practices for Staying Calm in an Argument
• Lithuania Has Restrained the Unruly Horse of Public Policy
• Asking the Tough But Necessary Questions!
• Want Better Work Team Conflict Management? Begin By Assessing “Conflict Climate” Online
• Mediate.com Offers New Responsive Site
• III Congreso Internacional de abordaje de conflictos: “ Caminos Hacia la Paz”
• The 7 Strategies for Determining Your Parenting Plan
• Who Says That Mediation Needs Reclaiming?
• What’s the Difference Between Empathy and Sympathy?
• In Many Respects, Women are People Too…
• Federal Arbitration Case Update: The Powers that Be
• Open and Closed Doors – A Mediator’s Tale
• Urban Projects
• Defining A “Settlement” or When Is A Case Moot ?
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• To Be Effective, Mediators Should Learn to be More . . . Stupid?
• COA Orders Employment Discrimination Case to Arbitration
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• The Hague Convention, Seven Characteristics, and Mediation
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• La Tercera Ola de los Mecanismos Alternativos de Solucion de Conflictos
• Revolution Calling
• Further Thoughts on Armstrong Arbitration Award
• Teaching Students to Be Problem-Solvers and Dispute-Resolvers
• Do We Need a New York Convention for Mediation/Conciliation?
• Changing the Architecture of Justice: ODR, Dispute Resolution, and Design
• Our Narratives Reflect Who We Are
• El Futuro de la Mediación: Los Adolescentes y la Tecnología
• Don’t Rush
• Mediating Divorce Agreements: The Problems and the Potential
• Ética y Profesionalismo del Mediador: Una Receta Para el Éxito Profesional
• Time Traveling
• Rebooting Mediation by Detaching from the Illusions of Neutrality, Just Outcomes, and Balanced Power
• Branding the Industry of Mediation
• The Mediation Future
• APR: Alternative Political Resolution
• The Art of Conversation and The Future of Mediation
• Learning From Mediation
• Mediation Program Outreach: Reflecting on What Works
• Make the Most of Your Mediation: Seal the Deal
• A Conversation about Evaluation in Mediation
• Communication Techniques: How To Be Someone People Love To Talk To
• Federal Judge Orders Sugar Land Nursing Home Visitation Dispute to Mediation
• The Gated Community: Risk Aversion, Race, and the Lack of Diversity in Mediation in the Top Ranks
• Court ADR Trends for 2015
• Faith is Becoming a Hot Topic in Mediation. Are You Ready?
• Philosophy of Mediation
• Mandatory Mediation: A Comparative Review of How Legislatures in California and Ontario are Mandating the Peacemaking Process In Their Adversarial Systems
• The Mediator’s Log: A Mediation Story – Section 3
• We Need a Better Consensus About Negotiation Theory
• Why I Said “HR Should Be Ashamed of Itself”
• When Your Boss Won’t Change
• From Fear and Avoidance to Love and Trust: Transforming Your Relationship with Money.
• Getting to Yes with Yourself: Book Review
• Is Conflict Like Driving?
• Why Our Practice Areas Include Special Education Cases
• The Importance of Preventive Law to the Growth of Mediation
• Ambiguity and Mediation
• The Business of Mediation
• After the Conflict is Resolved
• Accessing Justice
• Whisper It Quietly?
• What Happens to Temporary Loan Modifications Reached in Foreclosure Mediation?
• A Mediator’s Pleas(e)
• The Downside of Evaluation in Mediation
• To Publish, or Not to Publish Arbitral Awards: That is the Question
• The Transpersonal is the Future of Mediation
• Integrating Conflict Management and Workplace Mediation Practices: A Blueprint for Future Practice
• Negotiation Advocacy and the Future of Alternative Dispute Resolution
• F=T(Q+I) F = The Future; T=Trust; Q=Quality; I=Information
• Mediation Past, Present, and Future….
• The Place of an Old Fashioned Deal Broker in the Future of Conflict Management: An Interview with Kenneth Feinberg
• Celebrate Groundhog Day! How Punxsutawney Phil Helps Me Help People
• Without Compulsion: Teaching Mediators Empathy
• Looking to the Future of Mediation
• Technology
• Truly Constructive Conflict
• Quick Point on Empathy
• Is Mediation the Golden Opportunity to put a Square Peg in a Round Hole?
• Mediation Advocacy – Countdown to a Successful Mediation
• Privatizing Mass Settlement
• William Ury “Getting to Yes with Yourself” – 53 min. Video
• Beyond “Half Full or Half Empty” – Getting the Right Glass
• Truths in Advertising
• Transformative Mediaton – Video
• The Police and the Public: A Mediator’s Reflections
• Joint Sessions: More Arrows in the Mediation Advocacy Quiver
• Teaching in a World of Racism Without Racists?
• Benefit Vs. Purpose
• Neutral Analysis and Second Opinions
• “Investment Arbitration Is Now On Broadway, And The Critics Are Not Being Kind”
• Fifth Circuit Reverses Course in Construction Defect Case
• Conflict Resolution and the Ancient Art of Kintsugi
• A Movement Toward Empowerment
• Mediation: Centerpiece of World Recovery
• The Future of Mediation: Toward a Conflict Revolution
• Best Interests and Little Voices: Child Participation in the Family Mediation Dialogue
• Educación y Paz Integral Sustentable y Duradera – en Espanol
• Mediator Horror Stories
• “Serious incident” Investigator Training Hits the Spot
• U.S. Supreme Court Asked to Review Case Where Mediator Conflict Existed
• The Big Irish “What If?”
• Fees of the Successfully Challenged Arbitrator?
• Hope for The Future of Mediation Internationally
• The Critical Role of Mediation in Bridging the Access to Justice Gap
• Alimony in PA: Friend or Foe in Divorce?
• Conflict Theory
• On Forced Arbitration
• California’s Legislature – Hard At Work Once Again-2014
• Taking a Fresh New Look at Conflict
• Selma
• Who’s Running the Show?
• Why are Attorneys Afraid of Conflict in Mediation?
• The Mediator as Process Designer
• Violencia Familiar y ODR – Video en Espanol
• The Future of Mediation in Different Sectors
• Re-conceptualizing the Work as Something Bigger than Ourselves–Reconciliation
• Mediation Anthem to Ring in the New Year
• Thomas-Kilmann Instrument: A Reflection on 40 Years
• Four Things You May Not Know About Conflict Even Though You Are Already A Conflict Expert–Book Excerpt
• The Year of Arbitrator Authority
• Do We Need Laws to Help Us Say Sorry?
• A New Dawn for Mediation?
• Plea Bargaining
• Ten New Year’s Conflict Resolutions
• How Do We Create Better Inventives?
• Tercer artículo colectivo producto del debate en el foro Cyberweek 2014 sobre Sistemas Normativos y ODR
• Building Trust in Volatile Situations
• Wanting It Too Much
• The Witness Statement as Disclosure
• 4 Tips for a Stress-Free New Years
• Giving Yourself Permission
• Moral Imagination Revisited via Jon Hyman
• Mediations Are Supposed To Be Confidential… But Are They Really?
• 6 Reasons You Need a Prenup
• Police Academy IX: This Time It’s Interpersonal
• How You Go About Resolving Your Dispute Is Up To You
• What’s the Right Thing to do When You are Really Angry About What’s Happening in America?
• What an 8-year-old Taught Me About Life
• Najar on Dispute Management 2.0
• Non-Judicial Means of Collective Redress in Europe
• Mediation Going Forward: What Do We Know? What Can We Expect?
• Utilizing Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) for Co-parenting Issues in Families with a History of Domestic Violence
• Beyond “Getting to Yes:” Building Mediation Skills and Insights into Relationships
• Claiming Mediation’s Future
• Doug Noll Discusses the Future of Litigated and Non-Litigated Mediation – Video and Transcript
• Mediator Ethics and Professionalism: A Recipe for Success
• Workplace Restoration Case Study
• Retire Already! Why?
• It Is All In Your Perspective!
• The Californication of Mediation
• Mediator’s Proposals: God’s Gift to Mediation, or a Betrayal?
• Conflict Doctors
• ‘Tis the Season for Mediation
• The Future of Alternative Dispute Resolution
• A Future of Social Technology In Support of Peace & Justice
• The Future of Mediation: Mediators As Problem Finders, Makers, and Designers
• The Conflict Pivot: A Must-Read for Mediators and Coaches – Book Review
• Mobbing at Work – en Espanol
• Dealing with Difficult People
• In the Midst of Ferguson Chaos, an Apology Done Right
• Arbitration Trends in 2014
• Behind Mediation’s Smoke and Mirrors
• Having an Axe to Grind
• Talking About Ferguson
• Our Mediation Future
• Revisiting Reframing: Mediation and the Impact of “Spin”
• Some Good Questions
• Have You Got What it Takes to be a Mediator?
• Use and Perception of International Commercial Mediation and Conciliation
• Improve Your Communication: Use Earplugs!
• The Key “Moral” from Stories Mediators Tell
• My Least Favorite Part of Conflict
• Trials, Part One
• Mediator’s Proposals? A Story…
• Predicting the Future of Mediation
• The Art and Science of Mediation: How the Principles of Commitment/Consistency and Expectation May be Applied to Mediation to Help Break Party Impasse – Part Two
• Fear Comes to School: Mediating Among Parents Around Ebola
• Is Conflict Always Negative (or Where is the Tiger)?
• De qué manera puede incidir e insertarse el Crowdsourcing en la Resolución Electrónica de Disputas (CORD) en un futuro?
• Processing it All on the Last Day….
• What is a “Tiered Dispute Resolution Clause” and What Options Does it have to Offer?
• The Golden Sounds of Silence
• Thanksgiving Through The Centuries!
• 10 Tips for Choosing the Right Divorce Mediator
• The Art and Science of Mediation: How the Principles of Commitment/Consistency and Expectation May be Applied to Mediation to Help Break Party Impasse – Part One
• Whose Job is the Conflict?
• 5 Ways to Ruin Your Relationships
• Arbitration in Evolution
• $1B Settlement Reached in Stryker Hip Implant Mass Tort
• The Growth of Arbitrator Power to Control Counsel Conduct
• Time Is “Like-The-Present”
• Legal Mediation News Update – November 2014
• Who Are You When You’re in Conflict?
• A History of Hostage Negotiation Presentation to The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators London Branch
• The Case for Dispute Resolution Clauses in Contracts
• Reflections on the State and Future of Commercial Arbitration
• 5 Reasons It’s Hard for Mediators to Support Self-Determination
• Giving Children a Voice
• Intervening in Conflict When It’s Not Your Job
• Metrics
• Did Hunger Sabotage A Mediation?
• Themes in Mediation
• Update on Home Foreclosure Mediation – November 2014
• The Urgent Need For Data: Are the Needs of Users and the Dispute Resolution Market Misaligned?
• Sculpting a New Dispute Resolution Field
• Reflections on Everything is Workable: A Zen Approach to Conflict Resolution
• The Shocking Cost of Divorce in PA
• Mediation Will Get its Foot in a South African Door
• Hair Trigger Temper
• 10 Things I’ve Learned From Being a Mediator
• Healing your Relationship with Money: Letting go of Fear, Resentment, and Scarcity
• E.D. Texas Orders Guardrail Safety Case to Mediation Following $175 Million Jury Award
• Conflict Expression: Moving from the ‘What’ to the ‘How’ in Assessing Conflict in the Workplace
• Transformative Mediation Program Helps Ohio Employees
• International Mediation Developments – November 2014
• The Italian ADR Saga: a Machiavellian Plot, or Just Lawyers Without a Plan
• Dividing Stuff
• Workplace Conflict – Putting It in Context
• Gender and Decision-Making
• Is ADR Your 1st Career?
• Body Language in Online Mediation – What Do We Miss?
• To Puff or Not to Puff . . . (or When and How to Puff)
• Expectations and Conflict
• The Consolidation Arbitrator – An Arbitrator Too Far?
• Eight Tips on How to Impress Your Arbitrator
• Federal Judge Orders Google Wallet Consumer Privacy Dispute to Mediation
• The Mediator’s Log: A Mediation Story – Section 2
• Trade Secret Mediation: Negotiating Beyond the Distrust
• Mediation – The Savvy Choice
• Fall is a Time to Reap What You’ve Sown
• The Trading Zone in Mediation of Employment Disputes
• Lessons from Jerusalem, Part II: The trouble with false assumptions
• Mediation 101: Know What It Is That You Want!
• Occupy Central: Resolving the Current Impasse
• When You Might Need Mediation After Divorce
• Seal It With a Kiss
• Compassion for Your Clients
• When Trust is Broken
• What I Learned from Sitting on the Other Side of the Table
• Losing
• Walking on Eggshells
• Just Don’t Ask and Get Good Karma??!!
• Lessons from Jerusalem: What Attitude Do We Bring to our Conflicts?
• How to Mediate High-Conflict Cases: Balance and Control
• Where I’m Coming From . . . and Want to See Us Go
• I Hate When He . . .
• Amarillo COA Holds Arbitration is Required in Construction Fee Dispute
• Finding Success in Leadership
• Bullying and Harassment – Evidence it Accounts for Sickness Absence
• It Is All In The Attitude !
• Creating A Foundation for Cohabitation
• Conflict in Start-ups
• Conflict Resolution Day is October 16, 2014
• Divorce Mediation Sessions: What Goes on Behind Closed Doors
• Defining Mediation: Voluntary Assisted Negotiation
• My Way or the Highway
• Dallas COA Affirms Arbitral Award Despite Evident Partiality Claims
• Experts Predict ADR Will Help Resolve ACA Claims
• On Collaboration
• The Ups and Downs of ADR Policymaking
• When to Fight
• You Don’t Have to Have This Experience with Conflict Resolution
• Harvesting Data to Shape the Future of International Dispute Resolution
• Models for Use of Mediation in e-Discovery
• Is Mediating Prenups a Form of Marital Mediation?
• Great Workplaces
• Prisoner’s Dilemma Game Show
• Never Cut What You Can Untie
• How to Make Mediation Accessible to People who are Suspicious
• Should Your Next Mediator Be An Avatar?
• New AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules are Now in Effect
• Creating Spaces for Effective CVE Approaches
• The ADR Provisions of EU Privacy Laws
• The Mediator’s Log: A Mediation Story – Section 1
• Mediators, Transformed and Untransformed
• Legal Mediation News – September 2014
• Lawyers Benefit from Transformative Mediation – Video
• Mediation Briefs: Do’s and Don’ts
• What Did Labor Day Teach Us About ADR?
• High Conflict Personality: Are you sure?
• Truth, Justice, and Peace
• Duologue: Inattentive Conversing
• Shhhh! The Big Risk Associated With Mediation Confidentiality Nobody Talks About
• 6 Major Mistakes to Avoid in a Do-It-Yourself Divorce
• ADR as a First Career
• The Last Word
• What’s a ‘Successful’ Mediation?
• Preventing Conflict in the Workplace by Taking Time for Yourself
• Texas Supreme Court Agrees to Decide Whether Construction Dispute Should be Arbitrated
• Employment Mediation Requires a Unique Touch
• Law Professor Transformed
• Do Unethical Leaders Foster Conflict Among Followers?
• International Mediation Updates – September 2014
• Getting to Yes…or No?!
• Harvey Hostage Negotiator’s Inside Look at Standoff
• Balancing Fairness with Justice
• Seven Challenges When Using the Neuroscience Lens to See the World
• Procrastination!
• Philosophy
• The Essential (and often ignored) Ingredient for Conflict Resolution
• What Happens on the Bus, Shouldn’t Stay on the Bus!
• Reported Complaints About Mediation.com
• Resolucion Alterna de Conflictos en Costa Rica y la Apertura Hacia Nuevas Formas de Gestionar el Conflicto
• Update on Home Foreclosure Mediation – September 2014
• Mediation and Mindfully Getting in the Middle (Redux) – Video
• The Negotiation Campaign
• MED-ARB: The Best of Both Worlds or Just A Limited ADR Option? (Part Two)
• The Good and Bad of Conflict
• Be Sure To Get Some Sleep !
• When the Mediators Pay the Highest Price
• Hat Trick: NHL Adds Arbitration Clause
• Managing Construction Conflict: Unfinished Revolution, Continuing Evolution
• Effects on Settlement of Post-Grant Patent Review Proceedings
• Marching Together
• Time for a Mediator’s Hippocratic Oath?
• “Talk To Me”: What It Takes To Be An NYPD Hostage Negotiator
• Using the 17 Factors of Alimony in PA in Divorce Mediation
• La Mediacion en Costa Rica y el Papel del Mediador
• MED-ARB: The Best of Both Worlds or Just A Limited ADR Option? (Part One)
• “Tell her Capt. Johnson is sorry and he apologizes.”
• Upsetting the Applecart
• Mediator Ethical Breaches: Implications for Public Policy
• Is Being Adaptive in Conflict Better than Being Purely Cooperative?
• Big Mac Attack: Is the Franchisor a Joint Employer?
• To Mediate Or Not To Mediate Now, That Is The Question
• Adding Verbal and Non-Verbal Communications Capacity in Virtual Contexts
• Shooting Yourself in the Foot
• Observatorio del Conflicto Social – en Espanol
• On What Level Are We Mediating?
• The Myth of Mediation Neutrality – book excerpt
• Compensation for a Dismissed Arbitrator?
• Remembering to See the Wood for the Trees – A Mediator’s Reality Check
• Grievance Procedures and Mediation Policy Goals
• Time Lord Mediators
• Three Lessons About ADR
• Sternlight – New Executive Order Blocks Mandatory Employment Arbitration
• Beware of Ultimatums When Negotiating
• Do Your Surrounding Systems Support Your Inner Self?
• Mediación Comunitaria, Redes Sociales, y Javier Mascherano – en Espanol
• From Practice to Research: When Peacebuilding Fails: The Limits of the Liberal Peace
• Developmental Negotiation: Preliminary Stage
• Authorities Crack Down on Foreclosure Rescue Scams with “Operation Mis-Modification”
• Dynamos, Cruisers, and Losers
• Vengeance Shall Never Be Yours!
• Using Diplomacy in Negotiation
• Book Review: The Variegated Landscape of Mediation
• Which System Is In Control?
• Prisoners (Spoilers!)
• Facebook’s Templates for Conflict Resolution and Court ADR
• Start Spreading the News: Mandatory Mediation Comes to New York
• Transformative Mediation, Slovenia, and the Wright Brothers
• Stepping into Someone’s Shoes
• La Mediación en Costa Rica
• Understanding Each Party’s Power in Family Mediation-Arbitration: Why it is Critical
• Mind the Gap: Mediation and Justice
• Incremental Progress in Mediation: Baby Steps, Strategic Mediation & Less is More
• Mediating Inheritance Disputes
• Mediation: A Way Out or Hard Work?
• ABA / Straus Institute Survey
• FINRA Appoints New Arbitration Task Force
• Do You Flip Your Lid?
• Case Study: The Mediating Manager
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• Hope and Hopelessness in Intractable Conflicts
• Insecurity in Nigeria : Focus on Social Protection
• Angry Faces Win Negotiations
• A Requirement Without Consequence? Federal Circuit Mediator Conflict Disclosure Case
• Walking Away with Grace
• Rewriting Your Conflict Story
• 20 Questions Every Corporate General Counsel or Head of Litigation Might Ask in Mediation
• Perception and Parts in Mediation
• Remembering Jonathan Reitman
• 20 Questions Every Corporate General Counsel or Head of Litigation Might Very Well Ask
• Living with ‘ADR’: Evolving Perceptions and Use of Mediation, Arbitration and Conflict Management in Fortune 1,000 Corporations
• GPS and Divorce Mediation
• Minimizing the Litigation Risk in Mediation
• Jumping From the Frying Pan into the Fire
• Courage to Manage: Evaluation Summary
• Me, Myself, and I
• Effective Strategies for Managing Conflict at Work–webinar
• Good Faith
• When Mediation Isn’t Mediation At All…
• Being Grateful for Whatever Comes
• A Song of Loss for Divorce Mediators
• The Hopeless Case
• Lack of Consumer Interest in Binding Arbitration Agreements
• Resolving Conflict and Building Peace in Social Networks: An Impossible Task?
• Mediating Between Charlie Brown and Lucy
• Arbitrator Selection
• Values and Interests Revealed in Detroit “Grand Bargain”
• Mediators and the World Cup
• El Ministerio Público de la Defensa incorpora el uso de Nuevas Tecnologías
• Multi-tasking
• The Settlement Drift
• Faith-Based Mediation: What is it and does it matter?
• Conflict Systems at Work in Startups
• Does Mediation Make Us Better?
• Deliberations, Interrupted
• Are You a Pot-Stirrer?
• Mental Health and Mediation Infographic
• U.S. Supreme Court Asked to Consider Scope of Nursing Home Arbitration Agreements
• A Primer on Arbitrability
• It Is All About The Food
• Three Distinct Embodied Languages
• Competition, Collaboration and Integrity at the World Cup
• How to Encourage Perspective-Taking
• Post-Divorce Blues: Unresolved Issues and New Problems Unsettle Divorced Spouses
• Meditation Enhances Mediation: A Six Sigma Perspective (excerpt)
• Winks, Nods, and Corporate Culture
• Confidentiality Revisited
• The Hearty Handshake, and Other Lessons From My Father
• The Real Bergdahl Error
• Arbitration as a Means of Avoiding Class Actions
• Patent Litigation
• Anger Management
• Our Best Negotiators are Humble People . . .
• Collaborative Scotland
• “Conflict – The Unexpected Gift” Book Review
• Results of the Survey on the Use of Soft Law Instruments in International Arbitration
• Wilcox v. Apraio – the 9th Circuit Sidesteps Mediation Confidentiality Questions
• New York’s Commercial Dispute Rocket Docket
• The Benefits and Costs of Rounding Up in Negotiations
• Best Practices for Settling Multi-District Litigations
• Settlement Conferences and the Price of Contempt
• Time Is Against Us and There Are Miles Between Us
• The Art and Practice of Second-Guessing Negotiated Deals
• Book Review: Short and Happy Guide to Mediation
• Improve Your Judgment Like a Star Athlete Does
• Sunshine in Litigation Act Reintroduced
• Pain in the Neck
• Ethics Consultations and Conflict Engagement in Health Care
• La Trama – Mediación en Portugal – en Espanol
• Quick Tip: Hostage Negotiator’s Tone of Voice
• Confidentiality and Due Process
• Imaginary Mediation: Snowden to Return, Face the Music!
• ADR: A Day in the Real Life of a Practicing Civil Lawyer
• The Mediator, The Artist
• When an Apology Sets the Tone of a Dispute in Mediation
• Mediating Your Divorce? Do You Still Need an Attorney?
• Employment Disputes
• Is There A Bad Faith Exception To Mediation Confidentiality?
• Silent Treatment
• Quick Tips for Developing Your ADR Career
• The Value of a Gesture of Good Faith
• Dispute Resolution Options
• When You Inadvertently Magnify a Conflict
• The Dispute Resolution Dilemma: Opt-In or Opt-Out?
• ODR Theory and Practice: Table of Contents, Forward, Introduction & First Chapter: ODR Past, Present & Future
• Nina Meierding: Culture and Gender Trailer – Video
• Politics, Science and Collaboration
• Parenting, Mediation, and Divorce: Meeting the Needs of Our Children
• From Problems to People
• Do Women Shy Away From Mediation?
• Tales From Middle School
• “I Wish I Hadn’t Said That”
• Can Mediation Work When Harassment is Alleged?
• I’m Ready to Resolve! (and you’re not)
• ¿Tramitaremos siniestros por Twitter?
• Conflict is Contagious
• The Paradox of Creativity with Compassion in Mediation
• Workplace Violence – Part 2
• Roles of Religious Culture in Peaceful Settlements
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• Expanding the Pie with Critical Non-Monetary Concessions
• Stew in Your Own Juices
• Collaborative Law in Civil Disputes and Basketball’s Triangle Offense
• From Reading the Body Language of Animals To Crisis Negotiator
• You’ve Got to Go Slow to Go Fast
• 5 Steps for Resolving Conflict Within Your Marriage
• Legal Mediation News – May 2014
• The Limelight Hypothesis, Part 2
• State of Maine 2014 Report on Foreclosure Mediation Program
• Workplace Violence
• Mediated Prenuptial Agreements Benefit Couples and Mediators
• People Moving: Using the Dimension of Space to get “Unstuck” in Mediation
• Mediation Assumptions – Are They Necessary?
• Crisis Negotiation
• 5 Year-old Almost Derails Transformative Mediator
• Developmental Negotiation
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• Anxiety About a Difficult Conversation? Try This.
• I Am Better Than You Are!
• Parlamento Europeo – en Espanol
• International Mediation Developments – May 2014
• The Limelight Hypothesis
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• Getting to Yes with the Dowager Countess of Downton
• Guide to Negotiating Children’s Internet Habits Between Shared Households
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• Body-Wisdom for Mediators: Maintain Connection in Conflicts
• Being Heard: Mental and Verbal Strategies for Getting Your Point Across
• FINRA Reverses Hearing Panel in Schwab Enforcement Case: Class Action Waiver Violates FINRA Rules
• Online Dispute Resolution: An Amorphous Concept, Yet An Effective Tool
• Showstopper Words in Mediation
• E-Discovery Neutrals – Four Questions
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• Engaging Conflict for Fun and Profit: Current and Emerging Career Trends in Conflict Resolution
• Changing Minds: The Work of Mediators and Empirical Studies of Persuasion
• Fairness v. Neutrality
• Reality Checks: Are Those Nightmare Stories Useful in Mediation?
• Global Currents: Trends in Complex Cross-Border Disputes
• The Five Stages
• Is Windows XP Unethical? Is Starbucks?
• Leadership is Defined as a Relationship, Not a Person
• “Hot-Tubbing” and ADR?
• Litigation, Negotiation, Collaboration, or Mediation–Should I Work It Out or Fight It Out?
• Video-based mediation – it’s starting to happen. What do we need to know?
• Senator Jon Kyl’s 10 Negotiation Lessons
• Reason or Excuse
• Mediating Discovery
• La Mediación con Enfoque Gestáltico — en español
• 5 Steps for Strengthening Your Marriage
• The Use of Student Organizations as a Means of Conflict Resolution Education
• Mediation’s Magnum Opus: Book Review of “Mediation: A Practice Guide for Mediators, Lawyers and Other Professionals”
• Distinction Between ODR and Mediation through Electronic Media
• Serving the Public: The Case for Formally Professionalizing Court-Connected and Litigated-Case Mediation
• Never Underestimate the Power of Your Perception
• Party-Directed Mediation: Book Download
• Mediation Can Help Bridge the Family Divide Created by an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis
• Judicial Activism Essential to Make Mediation Mainstream in South Africa
• Mindful Listening to Enhance Leadership Performance
• The Importance of Mediation in Family Business Management
• 5.15B Environmental Settlement in Anadarko v. Kerr-McGee
• Stupid Nice Things Good People Say
• Taming the Wild West of Arbitration Ethics
• The Value of No
• Legal Mediation News – April 2014
• Collaborative Justice and the Changing World of Mediation
• Mediation Pioneer Richard A. Salem 1930-2014
• Yes, It Can Be Done: Ten Mediation Program Models, One Online System
• Marriage 101 for Family Mediators
• Respect
• Facts, Law, and Worldview
• Inspiration or Immunity?
• Questions About Being in Conflict That Have No Right to Go Away
• Sternlight – Public Justice on Companies’ Use of ‘Bait and Switch’ in Arbitration
• Practices of Effective Negotiators
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• Five Things You Didn’t Know about Arbitration
• Overview on the Mediation in Cross-Border Conflicts – Sources and Application Areas
• How Dating Can Cause Stress For Your Child
• I’m Heading for Divorce–What Should I Do?
• Community Mediation Continues To Thrive Through Dedicated Volunteers
• Quality Control
• Mediation: The Greeks Have a Word for It
• At Work, Our Mental Models of Conflict Matter
• Implications for Mediation of Patent Infringement Suits
• Roots Of Construction Project Disputes Flow From Biblical Past
• Making Assumptions in Mediation
• How Do You Get Them To. . .?
• In Memory of Dr. Warren Ashley
• Understanding Faith-Based Mediation: A Multidimensional Model
• Mediation: A Process for Empowerment of Both Parties
• Voluntary Mediation? Apparently, the False Prince Charming
• How Effective is Distributive Bargaining when the Parties are Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars apart?
• Great Conflict Resolution Starts With Great Problem Finding
• It’s All about the Relationship
• Don’t Apply Risk Analysis To Discounted Settlement Value
• Dallas COA Holds Cellular Network Technology Dispute is Subject to Arbitration
• What Role Does the Environment Have In Negotiation & Mediation?
• I Didn’t Mean it That Way
• What Movie Do You Want To Make?
• How Do You Manage the Unrepresented Party in Litigation?
• How to Focus That Wandering Mind
• Pinning the Tail on the Donkey Blindfolded
• A Practical Guide to Comprehensive Conflict Management Systems
• Lessons in Mediation: Use Your Words
• Bilingual Mediation, Part 2
• The Case for Forgiveness in Legal Disputes, Part 2
• Avoid Disputes Created by Misunderstanding Contracts
• Mediation Feedback: Who is it For?
• Bilingual Mediation
• The Case for Forgiveness in Legal Disputes
• How Do You Keep the Parties at the Mediation Hearing Until Settlement?
• 3 Misconceptions About Using Collaborative Law in Employment Disputes
• Why Learning Conflict Resolution Skills Won’t Help
• Revising Memories
• 5 Things You Didn’t Know about Class Action ADR
• WYSI[N]WYG
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• Compassionate or Benevolent Divorce
• On Being Understood
• How Your Memory Rewrites the Past
• What is Sustainable City Development?
• ADR, Access to Justice and the RPM
• The Subtleties of Memory
• Marital Mediation is Not Therapy
• How Much Is That Doggie In The Living-room Window?
• Writing a “Winning” Mediation Brief
• Do You Engage Clients in a True Risk/Benefit Analysis?
• Conflict from Workplace Behaviors
• The Inherent Conflict Regarding Who Determines Your Self-Worth
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• The “Paradox of Choice” and the “Sweet Spot”
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• Whose Fault Is It?
• The Good, the Interesting, and the Modern
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