Category: Spirituality

Each of us is on a spiritual journey.  We live in a materialistic world, but we also have a spiritual...

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

Mediators are peacemakers. We are trained to provide an organized, safe place for couples to address their conflicts. In that...

Over the years, I have sensed a profound need for the development of a spirituality of conflict transformation within the...

Getting upset is something we all do. It’s a part of our humanity. Because our anger causes us to start...

Family conflicts are a natural phenomenon.  Disputes within the family are a part of the basic human lifecycle and create...

From the ADRAC blog here.What is the relevance of religion to ADR? This question is very different to considering the...

In the “spirit of full disclosure”, I have known Aaron Wolf, the author of The Spirit of Dialogue, since 2002....

(Note:  This is a fictional story based on fact.  Quotations are used for literary purposes and do not reflect actual...

Modern psychology is rich with a tradition of mechanistic reductionism.  In this tradition, phenomena are broken down into metaphysical properties...

During this week between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the Jewish people declare that “The Book of Life” is still...

In the past years, the share of countries participating in any type of conflict has risen to be the highest...

Several months ago, a friend asked me how one goes about practicing forgiveness with respect to someone who persists in...

John Paul Lederach describes discussing alternatives to violent conflict with groups who felt powerless and that violence was their only...

I remember lying on my bed, imagining myself in a fetal position, caught by the pain of the minister who...

"Rabbi Shimon ben (son of) Gamliel said: On three things does the world endure: justice, truth and peace, as the...

Jan Frankel Schau's Mediation BlogThis weekend begins the festival of Chanukah. For eight days, Jewish families light candles and celebrate...

Indisputably I have gotten emails from dispute resolution colleagues asking what we, in Missouri’s dispute resolution center, might do (or...

  The Pope, a rabbi and an imam…sounds like the beginning of a very funny joke but last week was...

Indisputably Another story from Charlie Pillsbury of Quinnipiac: There’s a sacred ADR story in the Second Book of Samuel, which...

Meredith Mediates by Meredith RichardsonWe like to believe that we are rational beings who make rational decisions. Sometimes, we are....

Please see the PDF of the complete article, attached below.After a conflict between communities or nations has been led to...

Goals, predictions, vision statement. Frame it in any manner, what stakeholders are looking for is the fulfilment of the promise...

Introduction The recent film “Exodus: Gods and Kings” has sparked some renewed interest in the actual written record of those...

I raised the question in a past blog, what is Faith-Based mediation and why is it important? The answer, if...

This is a book review of Everything is Workable:  A Zen Approach to Conflict Resolution by Diane Musho Hamilton. A...

Dispute Settlement Counsel by Michael Zeytoonian. I wanted to continue the theme from my last Blog post about the Sea...

Dispute Settlement Counsel by Michael Zeytoonian. In August, 2014, I spent 12 days in Jerusalem and other parts of Israel....

The French have a wonderful term for a common phenomenon: déformation professionelle.  Similar to the saying, “If your only tool...

The traditional view is that a mediator is a neutral, third party who helps two or more conflicting parties cooperatively...