Category: Humor

Humor in life is wherever you find it, but divorce mediations aren’t exactly the best venues for humor…or are they?...

William Hartgering explains the satisfaction he gets out of mediating and seeing parties change throughout the process.

1. Francisco, Natasha, Eva, and Trevor are all staying at the hotel for the mediation conference. They decide to go...

Jay Folberg tells of observing his pawn broker father as he bargained with customers. He claims the key to his...

While reading this opinion (or simply this post) think about Carrie Prejean's accusation that Larry King's question to her --...

There is much discussion on whether or not mediation is a profession yet one of the defining marks of a...

From the Mediation Matters Blog of Steve Mehta. The saga of Carrie Prejean, the Miss California contestant for the Miss...

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

A mediator ridiculing mediation is healthy exercise. With humor any conflict is source of entertainment; clowns are funny because they...

Everyone’s upset at work theses days it seems. If you haven’t lost your job, your spouse has and you may...

Michael McWilliams describes the ideal character traits of a mediator: patient, listener, understanding, flexible, and using humor - though, carefully.

Our tendency to see others and our environment as the source of our difficulties (yet seeing ourselves as the source...

A friend recently sent me the following joke: During a visit to a mental asylum, a visitor asked the director...

Some years ago I started a post with 'Yeah well, I'm not sure that I get the whole 'mediators can...

I admit it. I was a newspaper addict. A three-paper-a-day addict. Mornings before leaving for work, there was the Boston...

What does conflict management have to do with comedy? A lot, it turns out. To be funny, to elevate another...

On the ABA Journal Daily News web site, the Question of the Week asks “Which Songs Would You Choose for...

An impasse had developed, the mediation was grid locked. As many had before him, the mediator hesitated outside the door...

First published in Trial Talk-December/January - 2005 - Vol. 54 Issue 1 - p31-32. Have you read a book to...

After more than 1,200 hours of actual time at the mediation table, and without apology for over simplification, I share...

From Dr. John Windmueller's blog.

My spouse and I will soon divorce I have a sinking feeling, She's found another who suits her more my...

ADR: pick one from each category Appropriate, Alternative, Acceptable, Antagonistic Disagreement, Dispute, Dialogue, Deliberation Reconciliation, Recognition, Resolution, Restitution Mediation: 1.)...

This limerick was offered by Gail Bingham at the 'Non-talent Show" of the "Consolidating Our Wisdom" Conference at Keystone October...

This poem was offered by Sharon Pickett at the 'Non-talent Show" of the "Consolidating Our Wisdom" Conference at Keystone October...

‘Truthiness’--- spell check does not yet recognize the word--- is that quality of a statement, or pontification, that because it...

Being a thrilling, spellbinding but true story right out of the wild west of a California mediation followed by some...

What do we mean by “all things considered?” The weather, we say, is good, “all things considered;” a new car,...

Sometimes a parable can say more about something in a few words and bring more clarity and understanding than an...

The first entry in a series of occasional Dear Diary postings by New Zealand mediator, Geoff Sharp, designed to highlight...