Category: Facilitation

Terry Wheeler explains his approach to mediation mostly using a facilitative style with elements of other approaches that weave into...

From John Folk-Williams's blog Cross Collaborate Facilitation is too often an underrated art. Both the practice and its practitioners are...

This article will appear as the centerpiece of a symposium in the Nevada Law Journal to be published in May...

Things have changed at my alma mater, U.C. San Diego since I graduated with a degree in Literature and the...

From Larry Susskind's blog on the Consensus Building Approach In their extraordinary new book, Planning With Complexity (Routledge, 2010), Judith...

From John Folk-Williams's blog Cross Collaborate This is the nightmare scenario for any consensus process: After months of hard work...

From John Folk-Williams's blog Cross Collaborate Despite my share of disappointments with the latest “revolutionary” computer technology, I’ve become quite...

From the Author: I'm grateful to Peter Adler, James Melamed, Samantha Hardy, Nikola Balvin and Claire Holland for their vital...

I recently came across Penn State's website and when searching "conflict resolution", I found this gem of a page. It...

From John Folk-Williams's blog Cross Collaborate The Future Search Conference is one of several collaborative planning methods that take a...

Explosion of Comments! (updated 12:48pm with more comments) Is it ok to ask for age specific facilitators? Over at the...

Nina Meierding explains a few different styles of mediation including transformative, facilitative, and evaluative. She mostly practices facilitative, but believes...

Joan Kelly explains that while she used a facilitative model while doing her research, she now usually ends up using...

From Larry Susskind's blog on the Consensus Building Approach Population growth is increasing.  Efforts to raise the standard of living...

Carrie Menkel-Meadow teaches negotiation highlighting four different models and she believes that it is important to teach all four models.

John Paul Lederach explains how mediators need to shift their focus from mediating a person to mediating a space in...

From Larry Susskind's blog on the Consensus Building Approach One response I often get to the idea of a taking...

“I’m a mediator, why do I need to worry about mindfulness?”    Not an unusual response when we suggest how...

In a recently published paper, experts in decision making Dolly Chugh, Katherine L. Milkman, and Max Bazerman asked an important...

WHO WE ARE [1] We are professionals who provide technical assistance to groups. Some of us work with communities. Others...

From Dr. John Windmueller's blog. There’s a common expression that “two heads are better than one,” and that may often...

Thanks to WorkLifeBridge for including us on its resource page.  We're happpy to reciprocate and pleased to find another good...

As a family-law attorney for over 35 years, I can tell you that the secret to a successful divorce is...

From Dr. John Windmueller's blog. I recently discovered a terrific tool for mapping concepts and group discussions: Compendium. Compendium was...

Why diversity?  Uh . . . . because that's how life successfully evolved on planet earth? Now a new study...

Desde el nivel vecinal al jurídico, la mediación ha adquirido un auge enorme en los Estados Unidos y se ha...

Peter Adler, Ph.D., President of The Keystone Center in Keystone, Colorado is also an author who has written extensively in...

Facilitators are needed for California's state-wide health care conversation. Californians will come together on Saturday, August 11th, to evaluate proposals...

A great resource today from Bill Waters' Campus ADR Tech Blog on the Dynamics of Group Decision-Making It's an animation...

Most of us would likely say that we do not care to be around disagreeable people. This choice of behavior...