Category: Collaborative Practice

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, which I have practiced for more than a decade, has taught me invaluable life lessons on and...

Preparing yourself for a mediation is challenging. No one likes conflict, and no matter how well you prepare or how...

Arguments are an unavoidable part of life, but they’re not always bad. Whether between a parent and child, two partners,...

Whether problems between coworkers seem constant or sporadic, handling conflict resolution in the workplace can be difficult and uncomfortable for...

I teach a graduate course on facilitation skills for both master’s degree and graduate certificate students  at the Carter School...

Last month’s article “Want to Build Peace? Understanding Trauma is Key” introduced Mediators Beyond Borders International (MBBI) and provided an...

When discussing my book Seven Essentials for Business Success:  Lessons from Legendary Professors last year during a Great Reads Book...

Competing, accommodating, and compromising all fall on the distributive dimension — on the diagonal from the upper-left mode to the...

I’d like to comment on a seven-day workshop I once attended in Westminster, Colorado. This experience is called “Ultimatum” and...

It’s my job as a conflict advisor, mediator, and Boss Whisperer® coach to detect the disconnects within relationships that create...

Debunking common Myths about Mediation and Asserting how Litigators can help with the process Mediation has rightfully earned a reputation...

Shoot it down! This was the rallying cry of Republicans all last week after a large balloon identified by US...

Are you required to negotiate your salary? No, but it is a good idea. Here are 3 reasons why you...

Browsing the internet for inspiration, I came upon an article in Live Science concerning quantum physics entitled “Does reality exist...

This post collects and summarizes the posts in the Real Practice Systems Project series.  I began by focusing on mediation...

People often ask me to spell out the difference between accommodating and avoiding. Or, as some say: “Accommodating is an...

Introduction: Conflicts happen when one party believes that another damaged or diminished their interests. When we take these beliefs to...

ChatGPT is a new language generation program available to anyone for free, developed by Open AI.  According to ChatGPT, it...

Choosing mediation to resolve long and complicated legal wrangles is encouraged across the legal sector and yet, in some cases,...

For those of you who are not sports/baseball fans, you may not have known (or cared) that Aaron Judge, who...

David Liddle’s latest book, Transformational Culture: Develop a People-Centred Organization for Improved Performance, is a must read for those interested...

This short article presents accounts of ten mediators about the factors affecting how we handle continuing streams of mediations – our...

Interested in issues like pay equity, pay transparency, salary negotiations, and the role of gender and unions? Then, this video...

Even though we know that name-calling is infantile, sometimes in the heat of anger, we realize we have resorted to...

Workplace stress and mental illness are rising at an alarming rate. The mental health index by Lifeworks found that more...

Recently, I have been addressing questions about bullying behavior in the workplace and how to use the TKI Conflict Model to help...

In this episode of Michael and Karen Aurit's video podcast "Inside The Mediation Room," their guest is Chip Rose, a...

I’d like to share some of the work I’ve done with applying the TKI in groups in order to improve conflict-handling behavior...

As part of my preparation to teach a class on mediation confidentiality, I reviewed the Uniform Mediation Act with all of its...

A sample of over 3,000 phrases for negotiators, mediators, and judges, on more than 400 topics in the book from...