“We Are a Field” with Juliana Birkhoff

As mediators, we seem to be drawn to the word "neutral" as a descriptive term for what we do and as a conceptual frame for our professional role. The terms...

From the Blog of Phyllis G. Pollack.Mediations are about negotiation. In most negotiations,   the parties focus on the substance of the dispute; that is, on the merits of the controversy....

Nina Meierding explains a few different styles of mediation including transformative, facilitative, and evaluative. She mostly practices facilitative, but believes every mediator is at least subtly evaluative in their method.