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Una teoria postmoderna de conflictos sociales author.

Una teoria postmoderna de conflictos sociales

“Cada acto de violencia viene de una herida sin curar” Gene Knudsen Hoffman CONCEPTOS BÁSICOS DEL NUEVO PARADIGMA Se define...

By Nora Femenia, Ph.D
Asclepius, JD: What can this god’s daughters teach us about conflict? author.

Asclepius, JD: What can this god’s daughters teach us about conflict?

From Stephanie West Allen's blog on Neuroscience and conflict resolution . "There is a dimension to the practice of mediation...

By Stephanie West Allen
Don’t Neglect Emotions in Negotiation and Mediation author.

Don’t Neglect Emotions in Negotiation and Mediation

I often hear critics of mediation dismiss it as "touchy-feely". Yet as the results of one recent poll conclude, half...

By Diane J. Levin
Communicating Collaboratively in Cyberspace: What Couples Counselors Can Teach Dispute Resolvers About Email author.

Communicating Collaboratively in Cyberspace: What Couples Counselors Can Teach Dispute Resolvers About Email

This article is reprinted with permission from the Collaborative Law Journal (Fall 2007).Mediators and Collaborative Practice (“CP”) professionals receive training...

By David Hoffman
Emotional Hangovers author.

Emotional Hangovers

From the Blog of Phyllis G. Pollack.       The other day, I came upon an article in the June 2005 Harvard...

By Phyllis Pollack
Brain Myths & Folk Psychology: Let’s not include any misleading myths in conflict resolution (like perhaps mirror neurons?) author.

Brain Myths & Folk Psychology: Let’s not include any misleading myths in conflict resolution (like perhaps mirror neurons?)

From Stephanie West Allen's blog on Neuroscience and conflict resolution . To spread accuracy, Professor Amy Shelton at Johns Hopkins...

By Stephanie West Allen
Don’t let the Nut Run the Conflict Resolution author.

Don’t let the Nut Run the Conflict Resolution

From Stephanie West Allen's blog on Neuroscience and conflict resolution . In an earlier post, I mentioned a fear center...

By Stephanie West Allen

Live Blogging from the International Academy of Mediators

From the blog mediator blah...blah...It's great to be in clean, green Portland, Oregon. The license plates say 'Keep Portland Weird'...

By Geoff Sharp
It’s Official:  Money Does Not Make Us Happy author.

It’s Official: Money Does Not Make Us Happy

You don't have to rely upon little old me anymore when I say that the negotiation is never solely about...

By Victoria Pynchon
Feelings as facilitators: Emotions can either enhance or impede communication author.

Feelings as facilitators: Emotions can either enhance or impede communication

From Stephanie West Allen's blog on Neuroscience and conflict resolution . Jeff was interviewed on national radio last week when...

By Stephanie West Allen

The Transforming Wisdom of Beyond Reason: Using Emotions As You Negotiate – Leading to An Attitude of Gratitude

The very fine book review by Jan Frankel Schau, posted here on Mecdiate.com inspired me to share the following. I...

By Charlie Hogge
The Myth of Mars and Venus: A new book dispelling some entrenched myths author.

The Myth of Mars and Venus: A new book dispelling some entrenched myths

From Stephanie West Allen's blog on Neuroscience and conflict resolution . Gender differences can play a part in conflict—both the...

By Stephanie West Allen

Psychological Traps In Negotiation And Other Wisdom

Go here for these superb one line sound bites describing each of these psychological traps in negotiation... Partisan perceptions *...

By Geoff Sharp
The Gift of Innocence – Part 1 of Revisiting Guilt and Innocence author.

The Gift of Innocence – Part 1 of Revisiting Guilt and Innocence

From Of Seeds and Sowers, NAICR's distinguished newsletter that includes current programs, projects and tele-classes, as well as humor and...

By Barbara Ashley Phillips
Long Live the Death of the Reasonable Man author.

Long Live the Death of the Reasonable Man

According to Saturday's New York Times Talking Business column Can We Turn Off Our Emotions When Investing?, few of us...

By Victoria Pynchon
Conflict Avoidance:  Social Obligations, Larry David and Shame author.

Conflict Avoidance: Social Obligations, Larry David and Shame

Conflict Avoidance: Social Obligations, Larry David and Shame How deeply do you renosonate with the feelings described by New York...

By Victoria Pynchon
Know Your Negotiating Partner: Boom, Gen X, Gen Y author.

Know Your Negotiating Partner: Boom, Gen X, Gen Y

See also the power point slide taken from Tom Baldwin's blog, KnowledgeLine based upon a presentation given at Shepard Mullin by Dr....

By Victoria Pynchon
New blog posts notes from the conflict trenches author.

New blog posts notes from the conflict trenches

As I've discussed here before, the conflict-averse among us (which, I suspect, is actually most of us) go to great...

By Diane J. Levin
Resistance fighters: how newcomers can speak up and not get put down by the rest of the crowd author.

Resistance fighters: how newcomers can speak up and not get put down by the rest of the crowd

Raising criticisms or concerns can often be a heroic act, even within a group whose members know each other well...

By Diane J. Levin
Your Values: One Way To Lessen The Stress Of Conflict author.

Your Values: One Way To Lessen The Stress Of Conflict

From Stephanie West Allen's blog on Neuroscience and conflict resolution . Of course, conflict can be stressful. When stress impedes...

By Stephanie West Allen
Nothing but the truth: Radical Honesty Movement Proposes A World Without Deception author.

Nothing but the truth: Radical Honesty Movement Proposes A World Without Deception

They say that honesty is the best policy. But given the lengths to which people will go to avoid confrontation...

By Diane J. Levin
Cognitive Dissonance / Attribution Error author.

Cognitive Dissonance / Attribution Error

From Colin Rule's blog. Shankar Vedantam in today's Washington Post: "The different perceptions of victims and perpetrators in Baumeister's experiment...

By Colin Rule
Pride: Something To Think About author.

Pride: Something To Think About

From the Blog of Phyllis G. Pollack.       According to psychologist Albert Mehrabian, more than fifty (50) percent of the total...

By Phyllis Pollack

Someone Really Really Difficult to Get Along With?

Most people get along with others. There might be the odd bit of friction between a person or two, but...

By Gary Direnfeld
Mind Advice? Bring Attention To The Conflict author.

Mind Advice? Bring Attention To The Conflict

From Stephanie Allen West's blog on Neuroscience and conflict resolution . Would the following be helpful in the resolution of...

By Stephanie West Allen
‘What Are You Feeling?’ ‘What Am I Feeling?’ These Questions Are Tools For Brain Taming author.

‘What Are You Feeling?’ ‘What Am I Feeling?’ These Questions Are Tools For Brain Taming

From Stephanie Allen West's blog on Neuroscience and conflict resolution . A flurry of articles appeared this week about the...

By Stephanie West Allen
WTO, Neuroscience and Impasse author.

WTO, Neuroscience and Impasse

We follow high-level negotiations, as well as the small commercial dispute, here.  No matter the stakes, the dynamics are the...

By Victoria Pynchon

Where Do Mediators Go to Access Intuition: Body-Wisdom Basics

Body-wisdom basics are three-fold. Awareness of three centers; head, heart and hara. Did I say "thinking?" No, let's start with...

By Jerry Green
Good brain, bad brain? Bring it all to the negotiation table author.

Good brain, bad brain? Bring it all to the negotiation table

From Stephanie Allen West's blog on Neuroscience and conflict resolution . We are hearing much lately about the wise parts...

By Stephanie West Allen

Can Compassion Work in Business Mediations?

Have you ever gone to a new dentist, only to find that he is callus and cold? As he reaches...

By Brian Cerny

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