Category: Facilitation

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

In Episode 20 of the Conflict Tipping Podcast, Laura May speaks with David Liddle about his career as a dedicated...

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

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

Eugene, Oregon, USA – We are pleased to announce that the administration of the National Roster of Environmental Conflict Resolution...

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...

This post started as a response to Jen Reynolds’s comment about my Avatar Mediation post.  It has grown into this new post about AI...

This session, from Cyberweek 2022 (http://odr.info/cyberweek2022) features Stacie Smith, Jan Martinez, Gina Bartlett, and Colin Rule discussing how technology has...

As a mediator, do you offer a bundle of services? Have you ever considered adding conflict management coaching as a...

In this episode, Laura speaks with Dr. Shannon Wheatley Hartman of the Interactivity Foundation.  Listen if you are interested in...

Divorce mediation does not always end in a full agreement. Sometimes, there are a few topics you can't agree on...

As I have previously mentioned, I am in a book club which reads and discusses books about conflict resolution. The latest...

Most of my family mediation clients need a separation agreement and they understand this. They do not always understand all...

The call came in at 2:05 a.m. The 911 operator who took the call was a veteran of many years....

Did you know that when given the option between in-person conciliation and online conciliation, most people in Colombia now prefer...

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

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...

Quality mediation courses include communication skills that enable the mediator to more effectively draw out information, which is necessary, if...

In this episode Laura interviews Mediator and Facilitator Felicity Steadman. Felicity's career started out in the turbulent apartheid years in...

Do holiday family gatherings cause you stress and anxiety? You are not alone. What happens when we suddenly have all...

In this podcast, JAMS neutrals Judge Sherry Klein Heitler and Judge Richard McDermott give listeners a deeper look into the...

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

You are invited to participate in and contribute to an online discussion of how those with conflict resolution and peacebuilding...

Did you know that as a mediator you help parties exercise a superpower?  It's the superpower of everyday negotiation! Listen...

Question:  Where does conflict come from? Answer: Normal, unconflicted life. Building on Felstiner, Abel, and Sarat’s classic article describing the...

Much has been written about negotiation style and decision theory in the last 40 years. Getting to Yes was a sensation in...

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

Separating married couples, with or without children, know that divorce requires the legal dissolution of the marriage.  Divorce is not...