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Wheeler, Terry: Approach: Mostly Facilitative – Video author.

Wheeler, Terry: Approach: Mostly Facilitative – Video

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

By Terry Wheeler
Standing In The Fire: The Inner Art Of Facilitation author.

Standing In The Fire: The Inner Art Of Facilitation

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

By John Folk-Williams
Further Beyond Reason: Emotions, the Core Concerns, and Mindfulness in Negotiation author.

Further Beyond Reason: Emotions, the Core Concerns, and Mindfulness in Negotiation

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

By Leonard Riskin
Negotiating Prejudice At U.C. San Diego author.

Negotiating Prejudice At U.C. San Diego

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

By Victoria Pynchon
Collaborative Rationality author.

Collaborative Rationality

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

By Larry Susskind
What Do You Do When Consensus Fails? author.

What Do You Do When Consensus Fails?

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

By John Folk-Williams
Real-Time Online Video Meetings author.

Real-Time Online Video Meetings

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

By John Folk-Williams
Multi-Party Facilitation – Improvisation: How to ‘Do The Jazz’ in Multi-party Facilitations author.

Multi-Party Facilitation – Improvisation: How to ‘Do The Jazz’ in Multi-party Facilitations

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

By Alex Azarov
Facilitator Tips author.

Facilitator Tips

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

By Jeff Thompson
Whole System Change: The Future Search Conference author.

Whole System Change: The Future Search Conference

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

By John Folk-Williams
Should Age Matter? author.

Should Age Matter?

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

By Jeff Thompson
Meierding, Nina: Differences in Mediation Styles – Video author.

Meierding, Nina: Differences in Mediation Styles – Video

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

By Nina Meierding
Joan Kelly: Use of Facilitative Model in Research – Video author.

Joan Kelly: Use of Facilitative Model in Research – Video

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

By Joan B. Kelly, Ph.D.
Green Technology Innovation author.

Green Technology Innovation

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

By Larry Susskind
Menkel-Meadow, Carrie: Teaching Negotiation – Video author.

Menkel-Meadow, Carrie: Teaching Negotiation – Video

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

By Carrie J. Menkel-Meadow
John Paul Lederach: Ideal to Mediate a Space, Not Just a Person – Video author.

John Paul Lederach: Ideal to Mediate a Space, Not Just a Person – Video

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

By John Paul Lederach
Governing Communities Of Faith author.

Governing Communities Of Faith

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

By Larry Susskind

Mindfulness: Techniques For Achieving Clarity Of Awareness

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

By Dr. Barbara T. Strahl, Tom Matyók
Judgment call: everyone benefits when decision making is improved author.

Judgment call: everyone benefits when decision making is improved

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

By Diane J. Levin
A Credo For Facilitators author.

A Credo For Facilitators

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

By Peter Adler

When two heads aren’t better than one

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

By John Windmueller
Consensus Building Tips from Work Life Bridge author.

Consensus Building Tips from Work Life Bridge

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

By Victoria Pynchon

Secret To A Successful Divorce: Instead Of An Attorney Use Self-Help, Mediation Or Collaborative Law

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

By Ed Sherman

A Useful Tool For Mapping Concepts And Discussions

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

By John Windmueller
Note to Board of Directors:  Women Make a Positive Difference author.

Note to Board of Directors: Women Make a Positive Difference

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

By Victoria Pynchon
Mediación entre víctima y ofensor author.

Mediación entre víctima y ofensor

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

By Josefina Rendon
A Protean Negotiator: An Interview with Peter Adler author.

A Protean Negotiator: An Interview with Peter Adler

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

By Gini Nelson
CaliforniaSpeaks: Working Together for Better Healthcare author.

CaliforniaSpeaks: Working Together for Better Healthcare

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

By Susan Dupre

The Dynamics of Group Decision-Making

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

By Geoff Sharp
The Art of Disagreement author.

The Art of Disagreement

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

By Dale Eilerman

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