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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.
Mediation and Mental Health Handbook - an excerpt
In conjunction with the National Center for State Courts and with funding from the State Justice Institute, a Mental Health and Mediation Handbook was developed.
The Pandemic’s Silver Lining for the Courts
This article examines how the COVID-19 pandemic incentivized the courts to become more user-friendly.
A Divided Stance on the COVID Vaccine
The COVID pandemic has brought on a lot of divide amongst the nation.
Mediate.com Great Reads Book Club - Yvette Durazo, interviewed by Mike Rozinsky
Mediate.com Great Reads Book Club - Yvette Durazo, interviewed by Mike Rozinsky.
Collective Aquifer Governance: Dispute Prevention for Groundwater and Aquifers through Unitization - Book Review
This is a book review of Todd Jarvis's recent book about mediation in natural resources.
Mediation As A New Path To Curtail Bullying
Bias-based bullying happens when children ‘otherize’ one another by making someone feel they do not belong because they are considered ‘different’.
Concerns that COVID has Escalated into a Media Conflict
Covid, as it stands, is a serious disease but only the over-promotion of it in the media has elevated this strain from any mutation of the flu. This is preventing the nation from having a civil discourse about it.
COVID Consequences: Slouching Toward Civil War
A COVID Screed on What it Means and What We Can Do.
COVID Mediations: Dialogue Tools Set Up Pandemic Mediations for Success
COVID has transformed typical workplace and family mediations to look more like emotional contentious community disputes and therefore, the tools used in a community dispute such as Reflective Structured Dialogue can help workplace and family mediations be more productive and positive.
Covid Exasperates Issues Between Co-parents About Agency
Covid-19 certainly does exasperate the challenge of co-parenting post-separation.
More COVID PIEs and the Alice-in-Wonderland Supreme Court Decision Endangering Workers
This is a sequel to the post last week, My Covid Perceived Injurious Experiences (PIE). This is one author articulating their concerns and their approach to resolving a personal conflict with their COVID experience. While Mediate.com does not take a stance on the pandemic, we encourage authors to write in with their approach to resolving interpersonal pandemic conflicts.
A Conversation with People who Don't Want to be Vaccinated
Our country, and the world in general, is divided. This article gives an example of how to have a conversation with someone who has a different approach to the pandemic than you.
My COVID Perceived Injurious Experiences
This article details a mediator's experience with COVID, and vocalizing feelings of anger and perceived conflict.
A Q&A Session With Ron Ravikoff on Health Systems and the Benefits of ADR
Ronald Ravikoff, Esq., has been a JAMS neutral since 2012 and has been on the American Healthcare Lawyers Association panel of neutrals since 2014. We spoke with Ron Ravikoff about his extensive experience in health care mediation and arbitration and the advantages alternate dispute resolution (ADR) brings to the health care industry at large.
Confronting Stigma Around Mental Illness in Mediation
This article discusses the impact of stereotyping mental illnesses.
Why is the Pandemic Causing a Spike in Divorce?
At the outset of the Covid-19 outbreak, many experts predicted a sharp increase in divorce rates. This has played out a bit differently than expected.
Better Reflecting Mediation to the World
While mediators often assist in the creation of near miracles behind closed doors, our miraculous work and effective approaches are still not well-understood by general society. Might a more effective way of "reaching the masses" be to take advantage of "MEDIATION ART," be that in our physical and virtual offices, on our websites, and, perhaps in time, at bus stops and on highway billboards?
Mediate.com Great Reads Book Club - Richard Moore, interviewed by Colm Brannigan
Another episode of Mediate.com's Great Reads Book Club: Richard Moore talking about his book "A REALISTC Framework for Enhancing Communication Relationship-building & De-escalation Skills," hosted by Colm Brannigan.
How To Prepare For Your First Divorce Mediation Session
The decision to get divorced is often not an easy one. But what happens when you don’t want a full-blown series of court cases surrounding this experience?
Mediate.com Great Reads Book Club - Grande Lum, interviewed by Colin Rule
Another episode from Mediate.com's Great Reads Book Club: Grade Lum talking about his book "America's Peacemakers: The Community Relations Service and Civil Rights," hosted by Colin Rule.
Personal Histories in Conflict Resolution Interview Series: Howard Bellman
From the Mediate.com interview series -- a conversation with Howard Bellman about his chapter in the book "Evolution of a Field: Personal Histories in Conflict Resolution."
What Kaizen and Sir David can Teach Mediators About the Green Pledge
The “Mediators’ Green Pledge”, as it has become known, has been translated into 14 languages and has over 500 signatories from over 50 countries. The purpose of the Pledge is to promote more sustainable and environmentally friendly practices with the aim of reducing our carbon footprint and our impact on the environment and climate.
Mediate.com Great Reads Book Club - Embodied Conflict: The Neural Basis of Conflict and Communication
This is an additional episode of Mediate.com's Great Reads Book Club with Tim Hicks talking about his book "Embodied Conflict: The Neural Basis of Conflict and Communication." This interview is hosted by Bernie Mayer.
Book Review: When Gender is in Question, a Guide to Understanding
Sherkin's book When Gender is in Question focuses on the experience of the transitioning person and their loved ones and as such provides a doorway to deeper understanding, to uncovering bias, and to appropriate interaction.