Category: Humor

Harvard Law Fellow Reacts to Hamilton // What negotiation lessons can we take away from the musical Hamilton? Watch as...

While mediators often assist in the creation of near miracles behind closed doors, our miraculous work and effective approaches are...

Progress in the mediation field is often a bit abstract, if not illusory.  Related, humor in mediation has historically often...

As a mediator, one can sometimes feel isolated, after all confidentiality comes first, there is no room to share your...

IndisputablyHi everyone–and happy start to the semester.  I’m about to teach a bit on interviewing and counseling and am using...

California has always had a rich history of Mining and the Gold Rush and in particular, the counties and cities...

FLASHBACK July, 2019: I sit in my car, waiting another ten minutes before going in to mediate. I sip my...

Like many Americans practicing social-distancing, I find myself seeking at-home activities and binge-worthy shows to take my mind off of...

“I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.”...

Mr. Stark's article was published in the Detroit Legal News on august 30.“We do not take humor seriously enough.”  Konrad...

This excellent news report from India shows the new Delhi Mediation Center. Unfortunately, it seems that the sign above the...

Kluwer Mediation Blog and Kluwer Arbitration BlogI learned two foreign languages back in school, and there is a reason why...

Conflict Management Blog by Cinnie NobleThe expression “to have a bee in one’s bonnet” has a variety of meanings. One...

In 2008, Resourceful Internet Solutions, Inc., the parent company of Mediate.com, proudly published Peter Adler’s "Eye of the Storm Leadership:...

Kluwer Mediation Blog and Kluwer Arbitration BlogAs the year comes to an end, I am expanding upon a story to...

            Admit it.  You believe that your favorite mediator, like Clark Kent, lives this dull and drab existence, spending the...

Conflict Remedy Blog by Lorraine SegalDo you judge people for breaking a rule you always follow? I realized recently that...

In the second Guardians of the Galaxy movie, there is a character named Mantis who has the power to sense...

PGP Mediation Blog by Phyllis G. PollackSeveral weeks ago, I posted a blog discussing two “lures of the Tribal Mind”...

Today many people are dressing up in pretend costumes to get a scare.  Well, my friends, I am here to tell...

Texas Conflict Coach Audio Blog by Pattie PorterWhen I was an undergrad at Stevenson University in Stevenson, Maryland, I had...

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At a conference many years ago the keynote speaker opined that mediation could not be a profession because there were...

Time Travelling A Vision for the Future Through Three Dimensional Glasses On New Year’s Eve, 2013, my husband and I...

Just Court ADR by Susan M. Yates,Jennifer Shack, Heather Scheiwe Kulp, and Jessica Glowinski.In what has become an annual tradition,...

ADR Prof Blog by Andrea Schneider, Michael Moffitt, Sarah Cole,Art Hinshaw, Jill Gross and Cynthia Alkon. In class earlier this...

"One cannot control one's dreams, that's why they are dreams." I had a dream last night, surely stimulated by Brian...

To quote Frankenstein’s monster, FIRE BAD. Mediators take a different view. We fearlessly go toward the heat in conflict, giving...

This video is a rap put together by children. Peer mediators and elementary school children discuss conflict resolution techniques.

Recently the “most serious” survey dedicated to All Fools' Day 2013 has been conducted in Ukraine. profiles of 333 partners...