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Mediate.com Podcast Episode 25: Reducing the Environmental Impact of Your Mediation Practice author.

Mediate.com Podcast Episode 25: Reducing the Environmental Impact of Your Mediation Practice

Have you ever considered how mediator practices impact the environment? In this episode, Veronica talks with Ian Macduff--mediator and host...

By Ian MacDuff, Veronica Cravener
AFCC and NCJFCJ Joint Statement on Parent-Child Contact Problems author.

AFCC and NCJFCJ Joint Statement on Parent-Child Contact Problems

The Boards of Directors of both the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) and the National Council of Juvenile...

By James Melamed, J.D.
Conflict Tipping Podcast – Episode 2: Rob Fersh and Monika Glowacki of the Convergence Center for Policy Resolution author.

Conflict Tipping Podcast – Episode 2: Rob Fersh and Monika Glowacki of the Convergence Center for Policy Resolution

In this episode of The Tipping Point Podcast, Laura interviews Rob Fersh and Monika Glowacki of the Convergence Center for...

By Robert Fersh, Monika Glowacki, Laura May
Mediate.com Announces The Conflict Tipping Podcast with Laura May author.

Mediate.com Announces The Conflict Tipping Podcast with Laura May

The Conflict Tipping Podcast, hosted by Laura May PhD, focuses on innovative strategies for responding to social conflict. Episodes will...

By Laura May, Colin Rule
Mediate.com Podcast 23: Providing Mediation as an Alternative Response to Low Emergent 911 Calls within the City of Dayton author.

Mediate.com Podcast 23: Providing Mediation as an Alternative Response to Low Emergent 911 Calls within the City of Dayton

In this episode, Veronica talks to Raven Cruz Loaiza, the Mediation Response Coordinator for the newly developed Mediation Response Unit (MRU)...

By Raven Cruz Loaiza, Veronica Cravener
The Importance of Mediation in the ADA Interactive Process author.

The Importance of Mediation in the ADA Interactive Process

As a HR and ADA Facilitator and author of Making It Work, I have found that mediating disability/medical related issues...

By Sheryl Ellis, PHRca, SHRM-CP, CLMS, ADAC
ODR Ethics and Standards: What Do They Mean to Our Practices? author.

ODR Ethics and Standards: What Do They Mean to Our Practices?

This international panel is moderated by Leah Wing & Daniel Rainey and jointly sponsored by The National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution & The International Council...

By Leah Wing, Daniel Rainey
A conversation with Richard Susskind (author) & Ethan Katsh (NCTDR Founder) author.

A conversation with Richard Susskind (author) & Ethan Katsh (NCTDR Founder)

The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts. A conversation with Richard Susskind &...

By Richard Susskind, Ethan Katsh
Heidi Brown’s Books Promoting Flourishing and Effective Practitioners author.

Heidi Brown’s Books Promoting Flourishing and Effective Practitioners

The ABA has published three books by Brooklyn Law Professor and Director of Legal Writing Heidi K. Brown to help law students...

By John Lande
How Your Written and Oral Communication Can Produce – or Reduce – Extreme Polarization author.

How Your Written and Oral Communication Can Produce – or Reduce – Extreme Polarization

Over the course of many years, I gradually came to realize that the particular words and phrases that a person...

By Ralph Kilmann
Waiting – A Mediation Distraction author.

Waiting – A Mediation Distraction

Back in the early 80’s when mediation was just taking hold as an alternative to court, joint session held first...

By Paul Rajkowski
Lessons Learned from the Implementation of a Video Eviction Mediation Program in Uncertain Times author.

Lessons Learned from the Implementation of a Video Eviction Mediation Program in Uncertain Times

This article is part of a series of perspectives on eviction mediation program development that is being supported by the...

By Jennifer Shack
Mediate.com Great Reads Book Club – Bernard Mayer & Jacqueline Font-Guzman, interviewed by Michelle LeBaron author.

Mediate.com Great Reads Book Club – Bernard Mayer & Jacqueline Font-Guzman, interviewed by Michelle LeBaron

Recording of the tenth episode of Mediate.com's Great Reads Book Club: Bernard S. Mayer and Jacqueline Font-Guzman talking about their...

By Bernard Mayer, Jacqueline Font-Guzmán, Michelle LeBaron
The Mediate.com Podcast Episode 1: Facilitating Conversations About Race author.

The Mediate.com Podcast Episode 1: Facilitating Conversations About Race

In this episode, Kwame Christian, Director of the American Negotiation Institute, discusses how mediators can facilitate respectful and productive conversations about...

By Kwame Christian, Veronica Cravener
Mediation 20/20 Conference – Day 3 Video author.

Mediation 20/20 Conference – Day 3 Video

Day 3 Envisioning Mediation for a New Generation - Where Should We Go? See Day 1 See Day 2 Technology...

By James Melamed, J.D.
Letter to our Colleagues about the Russian Invasion of Ukraine author.

Letter to our Colleagues about the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Letter to our Colleagues about the Russian Invasion of Ukraine  Susanne Terry Jackie Font-Guzmán Bernie Mayer  March 17, 2022 Like...

By Susanne Terry, Bernard Mayer, Jacqueline Font-Guzmán
Can Lawyers Mediate Proficiently Based on their Training author.

Can Lawyers Mediate Proficiently Based on their Training

While it is true that lawyers are eminently trained in the art of negotiating by virtue of the rigors of...

By KESHIA OSBOURNE, Bruce Ally
Stepping into the Unknown – “Standards Applicable” to Mediators under Singapore Convention on Mediation author.

Stepping into the Unknown – “Standards Applicable” to Mediators under Singapore Convention on Mediation

The United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation (hereinafter “Singapore Convention on Mediation”) that was signed in...

By Pitamber Yadav
Which is Better: To Be Strong or Smart? author.

Which is Better: To Be Strong or Smart?

From the Indisputably blog This post is prompted by an article by Washington Post columnist Paul Waldman, We’re Still Asking the Wrong Question...

By John Lande
Mediation is about Necessary Endings- Constructal Law author.

Mediation is about Necessary Endings- Constructal Law

Every ending is just a new beginning. We just don’t know it at the time.  Mediators inhabit this strange world...

By Greg Rooney
COVID Consequences: Slouching Toward Civil War author.

COVID Consequences: Slouching Toward Civil War

I.      Into the Fray   The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem....

By Peter Adler
Dan Rainey on the Universal Disclosure Protocol for Mediation author.

Dan Rainey on the Universal Disclosure Protocol for Mediation

Sponsored by The International Council for Online Dispute Resolution (ICODR) Dan Rainey speaking about the launch of the Universal Disclosure...

By Daniel Rainey
The Blame-Shame Game in Mediation author.

The Blame-Shame Game in Mediation

This article was first published in the Oakland County Legal News on November 23, 2021. “Those who blame others have...

By Laura Athens
My COVID Perceived Injurious Experiences author.

My COVID Perceived Injurious Experiences

IndisputablyThis article details a mediator's experience with COVID, and vocalizing feelings of anger and perceived conflict.  _____________________________________________________ I got covid. ...

By John Lande
Confronting Stigma Around Mental Illness in Mediation author.

Confronting Stigma Around Mental Illness in Mediation

Recently I have been thinking more about the social stigma around mental illness.  I have a close family member who...

By Colin Rule
Why is the Pandemic Causing a Spike in Divorce? author.

Why is the Pandemic Causing a Spike in Divorce?

Published by Advanced Mediation Solutions.At the outset of the Covid-19 outbreak, many experts predicted a sharp increase in divorce rates....

By Roseann Vanella
Do We Understand Traditional Mediation? author.

Do We Understand Traditional Mediation?

It looks like we’re coming to the end of this dig.  I can see a part of the canister holding the...

By Paul Rajkowski
Married Mediators: Donna Silverberg and Charles Wiggins author.

Married Mediators: Donna Silverberg and Charles Wiggins

An interview with Donna Silverberg and Charles Wiggins about mediation, being married to a mediator, and the future of mediation....

By Charles Wiggins, Donna Silverberg, Owner
The Law of Conformity – Conflict Lessons from 2021 author.

The Law of Conformity – Conflict Lessons from 2021

Also known as the 95 percent law, Peter Sage calls it the law of conformity.  If you hang out with...

By Lucia Kanter St Amour
Mediate.com Great Reads Book Club – Richard Moore, interviewed by Colm Brannigan author.

Mediate.com Great Reads Book Club – Richard Moore, interviewed by Colm Brannigan

Another episode of Mediate.com's Great Reads Book Club: Richard Moore talking about his book "A REALISTC Framework for Enhancing Communication...

By Richard Moore

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