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Parties and advocates can flounder in the intersection of logic and emotion. What if the parties’ goals are “distributive” and their “interests” are legal arguments? What if the participants are aggressive, intransigent and obnoxious? A “transformative” mediation would involve an exorcism, but that seems a bit “evaluative.” A “facilitative” mediation would require a PhD. This program will focus on “nuts and bolts.” Learn tips to dispense “reality therapy” and reach closure in the face of apparent impasse. Explore the psychology of decision-making, and learn practical tools for resolution. Learn tricks to reach settlement.
Pre-marital negotiations and prenuptial agreements remain necessary and useful, useful, and far from seeding distrust, counter-intuitively, can create a greater sense of intimacy in a relationship. In marriage, as in...
By Robert BenjaminCMP Resolution Blog by Lesley Allport and Katherine Graham.The Health Board South Wales asked us to train their Serious Incident Investigators. Although we know investigating inside and out, this was...
By Katherine GrahamPower And Trust As Negotiation Strategies And The Lessons Of The Cove Powerlessness and silence go together; one of the first efforts made in any totalitarian takeover is to suppress...
By Victoria Pynchon
