Category: Transformative

When some people imagine what it’s like to participate in mediation they have an image of people sitting around a...

Martti Ahtisaari, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, discusses What Makes a Good Mediator? He examines the importance of mediation in the...

1.   Polish Mediation Law of 2005 1.1.  Poland was one of the first EU Member States to enact a detailed...

Mediation in Ireland: Current Trends, Future Opportunities. Mediation has become the preferred method of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in Ireland...

For decades, the State of Maryland and the Maryland Mediation and Conflict Resolution Office (MACRO) have been offering programs and...

Texas Conflict Coach Audio Blog by Pattie PorterForgiveness is a powerful tool for clients who are up against difficult, and...

One of the touted benefits of ADR is that it allows parties to design their own dispute resolution process specially...

Kluwer Meditation Blog.How good are the decisions you make? Are they free from error? From unconscious bias? Are they consistently...

In the world of mediation, power is always an issue. Usually the focus is on the power – balanced or...

If I ever had to choose a woman to accompany me in a dark, scary alley with only one apparent...

Oprah Winfrey was always impressed with the crime victims and perpetrators meeting and moving through the pain via dialogue. Now...

Bound by conflict, separated by restraint, what a wonderful dilemma for us mediators! This is the sub-title for the conflict...

It is widely known that there is a crisis of confidence in the professionals (Donald Schon, The Reflective Practitioner Basic...

From the CMP Resolution Blog of John Crawley, Lesley Allport and Katherine Graham.More and more time in the UK is...

This just in from one of my colleagues at ADR Services, Inc., Michael P. Carbone. Good stuff and an excellent...

From Diane Cohen’s Mediation Services BlogEvaluative mediation is generally understood to be a process which may include an assessment by...

(Originally published in TRANSFORMATIVE MEDIATION: A SOURCEBOOK – RESOURCES FOR CONFLICT INTERVENTION PRACTITIONERS AND PROGRAMS” (J. P. Folger, R.A.B. Bush,...

Introduction: The literature on mediation and conflict resolution often talks about “empowerment”. A respected name in mediation like Bernard Mayer,...

Success I have grappled with many things in my years of mediation practice but the question of success is one...

Stulberg shares his concern about trainings that are given in too short of time or which are either over-lecturing or...

Linda Singer describes how she became interested in mediation: her observance of the court and litigation system led to her...

Carl Schneider talks about how he trains mediators to have "no resistance" and how that requires risk-taking.

Larry Fong discusses the lack of research on the effectiveness of certain styles, but emphasizes that most mediators use a...

Michael Lang talks about how many mediators lack awareness about their own process and this troubles him.

Joe Stulberg discusses how transformative mediation's foundation is not problem-solving.

One of the most important factors mediators needs to know, whether we are just starting out as a mediator or...

From Arnold W. Zeman's blogOne of the telling phrases that sums up the practice of transformative mediation is ‘turning conflict...

From Arnold W. Zeman's blog>Regular readers of this blog know that I practise mediation using the transformative model. (For more...

William Hartgering describes early talks of pushing to institutionalize mediation and the influence of Getting to Yes, by Fisher and...

Joe Stulberg emphasizes the importance of the trainer disclosing what type of training approach and mediation style they are teaching.