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I had come up with an idea: what if I get Jane to agree to have us try a process...

During a mediation, one or more parties will often bring up the topic of managing expectations- usually in reference to...

One of the most common questions friends and family often ask me is, "How do I become more comfortable with...

In this episode of the ICODR podcast, Ian interviews Professor Orna Rabinovich-Einy of the Faculty of Law at the University...

Can the TKI Conflict Model (i.e., the five conflict modes along with the assertiveness, cooperativeness, distributive, integrative, and protective dimensions) shed some...

– and a Personal Story or Two Successful mediation isn’t always rooted in the confidential mediation statement, or the back...

As the regulator of the .nz domain name space in the information age, there is an expectation that the New...

The January 2023 edition of Mediate.com's Great Reads Book Club: "Self-Determination in Mediation: The Art and Science of Mirrors and...

A parenting plan is a living document. It should change as your family's needs change.  The new year is a...

Please enjoy these haikus from Dan Dana's recent book A Life Mostly Lived, available on amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BKRT3ZXJ Discovering Workplace...

Most of my family mediation clients need a separation agreement and they understand this. They do not always understand all...

The call came in at 2:05 a.m. The 911 operator who took the call was a veteran of many years....

In this episode, Laura May interviews Brianna Hernandez, a Ph.D. Candidate in the International Relations program at Florida International University....

Browsing the internet for inspiration, I came upon an article in Live Science concerning quantum physics entitled “Does reality exist...

This article discusses some civility and ethical issues we experience in our professional practices. While accepting the Republican presidential nomination...

Did you know that when given the option between in-person conciliation and online conciliation, most people in Colombia now prefer...

In this episode Laura interviews Adrian Wagner, Research Fellow at European School of Governance and an experienced coach for organizational...

One of the keys to a successful dispute resolution business (or any other business these days) is having a powerful...

This post collects and summarizes the posts in the Real Practice Systems Project series.  I began by focusing on mediation...

People often ask me to spell out the difference between accommodating and avoiding. Or, as some say: “Accommodating is an...

Introduction: Conflicts happen when one party believes that another damaged or diminished their interests. When we take these beliefs to...

ChatGPT is a new language generation program available to anyone for free, developed by Open AI.  According to ChatGPT, it...

Choosing mediation to resolve long and complicated legal wrangles is encouraged across the legal sector and yet, in some cases,...

The highly sensitive person I am a highly sensitive person (HSP), one of the estimated 20% of humans on the...

The 2022 World Cup pageant is being staged in Doha of Qatar, and all interests and attentions are riveted to...

Reflections on Effectively Achieving Client Goals at the Mediation Table Introduction Litigators too often approach the mediation process with the...

Quality mediation courses include communication skills that enable the mediator to more effectively draw out information, which is necessary, if...

For the past several years Roselle Wissler (Arizona State) and I have been working on several articles about the early stages of...

For those of you who are not sports/baseball fans, you may not have known (or cared) that Aaron Judge, who...

Starting over can seem impossible after divorce. We may have lost who we are, had our future erased, or felt hopeless....