Category: Collaborative Practice

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...

Ever since mid-March 2020, when the first U.S. lockdowns took effect as the coronavirus began ravaging the globe, the shift...

Conflict Management Blog by Cinnie Noble “For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views...

In the old days, before the 1900s, it was mostly a person’s physical skills that were brought into the workplace…skills...

If you are interested in a highly readable, relatable, and well-reasoned book on how to live a life empowered and...

REGISTER NOW Mediate.com is excited to announce our Mediation and Mental Health Conference, September 28-30, 2022! See the Conference Agenda! This...

Here are Mediate University's Mediation Course "Bundles" to help you best and most affordably accomplish your mediation basic and advanced training...

In May 2019, I posted a blog about a plaintiff who challenged a parking ticket on the grounds that chalking her tires...

I frequently receive requests to reduce the complexity of conflict management and the TKI Assessment into a few simple “tips”...

Toxic co-workers or bosses can create big problems at work. As a workplace conflict transformation consultant, coach, and trainer, I...

When we think about the kinds of emotions people experience in conflict, we usually think of negative ones like anger...

In case you haven’t been keeping up with the news, on Monday, July 25, a four-woman rowing team arrived in...

For this third episode of Inside the Mediation Room, Karen and Michael Aurit host mediation legends and innovators Susan Guthrie...

My father encouraged us to be handy. He encouraged us to read the instructions and do it ourselves if we...