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The Complete Seven Keys to Unlock Mediation's Golden Age
This seminal compilation of "Seven Keys to Unlock Mediation's Golden Age" is now available for FREE! This is a work by 40 authors from around the world brought together for Mediate.com's 25th Anniversary Conference.
The Last Question
I do a lot of interviewing, whether that’s at the beginning of a coaching relationship or during the interview process of a team project to collect background information, concerns, and opinions. Here is my interview protocol.
No Shortcuts when it Comes to Conflict
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going ~ Beverly Sills
One Way or Another
Having been in the conflict management field for a long time – as a mediator and conflict management coach – I have seen and heard repeatedly the positional stances people take when in conflict.
Lessons Learned From Conflict
We all make mistakes – lots even – and lots of the time.
How to Coach Yourself Before Custody Mediation — for free
Some parents hire a coach to help them prepare for mediation. You can save money by coaching yourself. Take these four steps before your first custody mediation session.
Mediate.com Great Reads Book Club - Yvette Durazo, interviewed by Mike Rozinsky
Mediate.com Great Reads Book Club - Yvette Durazo, interviewed by Mike Rozinsky.
Conflict Resolutions for 2022
These are my resolutions for 2022--some recycled that I'm still working on.
Mediate.com Great Reads Book Club - Susan Raines, Workplace Conflict
Recording of another episode of Mediate.com's Great Reads Book Club with Prof. Susan Raines talking about the new edition of her book "Conflict Management for Managers: Resolving Workplace, Client and Policy Disputes," hosted by Chidera Didigu.
Mediation and the Evolution of Democracy: Inventing Interest-Based Responses to Lying, Demagoguery, and Fascism
Nearly 2500 years ago, Plato warned that “Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.” Why should this be the case?
"Never Ruin an Apology with an Excuse"
This quote by Kimberly Johnson is a good one to consider when it comes to asking forgiveness, giving an apology, and otherwise trying to make amends.
Beyond Mediation: Conflict Coaching
Conflict coaching, also known as conflict management coaching, is a one on one process in which a trained coach supports clients to strengthen their conflict competence, including their confidence and comfort to engage more effectively in their interpersonal disputes. This process may also be used for pre-mediation to prepare parties to participate more effectively in the mediation process or to prepare for any facilitated dialogue/discussion.
Online Mediation Training - Mentoring & Consultation Best Practices
The term “Mentor” been commonly used to include guide, champion, teacher, supervisor. Today because we inherited many traditions of mentoring practices, we continue to use the term broadly while also attempting to give it somewhat more definition in terms of mediation and related professional practices.
Effective Online Mediation Training For Public Policy And Large Group Mediators
At the request of Mediate.com, a small group of US-based public policy and large group mediators/mediation trainers met online during the winter/spring of 2021 to consider best practices and ideas to enhance online training and practice. This report summarizes our ideas and recommendations for ourselves, our colleagues and Mediate.com.
Do You Model Conflict Competence?
“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.” ~Albert Einstein
Full Video Now Posted of Forum on Online Mediation for Youth and Schools
How can we best support the development of online mediation and online mediation training for youth and in our schools? This Youth and Schools 2-hour Forum builds upon the 2-day "Young Minds, Global Voices Online Conference."
Full Video Now Posted of Forum on Interdisciplinary Collaborative Practice, Coaching and Limited Scope Representation
What can mediators learn from the online experience of other collaborative dispute resolution professionals? How do we best integrate online mediation with conflict & life coaching, collaborative practice and limited scope representation?
New Mediators' Guidance from Youth Conference
This article summarizes the Young Minds, Global Voices Conference. This conference was sponsored by Mediate.com in an effort to hear from newer mediators. These 6 sessions comprised up and coming thought leaders from around the globe, forming a brain trust for how to create peace in ourselves, our community and our world.
Full Video Now Posted of Forum on Standards, Ethics & New Technologies for Online Mediation
Join colleagues from around the world for Mediate's Forum on Standards, Ethics & New Technologies for Online Mediation. Among the featured presenters are Colin Rule, Leah Wing, Dan Rainey and Melissa Kucinski.
Conflict Resolution in the Time of COVID-19--Voices from Seven Continents of the World: Antarctica
In this time of plague, there is a renewed sense of the value of connection and cooperation.
Conflict Coaching: Seven Essential Questions
This article presents Bungay Stanier’s seven essential questions to focus on in a conflict coaching situation.
The Delhi Pact, 1950: Negotiating to Not Wage War
This article critically analyses the various flaws in the 6-day negotiation that took place between the Indian and Pakistani Government with respect to the Liaquat-Nehru Pact. It throws light on the fact that though this negotiation wasn't principally ethical or viable but was very much required to save the world from becoming a spectator to yet another war.
Advice to Aspiring Mediators
Marvin Johnson provides advice he would give to those wanting to come into the field: one must like people, have flexibility and patience, timing and intuition.
COVID-19 World Disorder and Reflection for Conflict Management with the Use of ODR Platforms
A new order of social coexistence, consumption, work, family model, resulting from a revolution caused by the invisible enemy COVID-19.
Introducing Clients to Zoom Videoconferencing
This video can be sent to clients who will be meeting online, familiarizing them with the process, and discussing confidentiality concerns.