Mediation is about co-operation and collaboration, not coercion, SO if your intent is to come into mediation to get what you want, at the expense of others (to win) , mediation is bound to fail. I begin the article with
What’s in a ‘conflict’ story When a client tells me all about the ‘other person’, it usually tells me much more about them than it does the other person. When I am assessing a person for suitability for mediation, my
Learning from the experts is the focus of this series of interviews in which family professionals, from a wide range of expertise, talk to John Hind, Director of Compass Resolution, about the various ways they support people in conflict, to
The ‘Top-down approach’ to problem-solving, in mediation This approach started to develop, in my mind and on paper, when I read; Conflicts- a better way to resolve them- Edward De Bono. Mediation is an outcome focused process so, logically, begin
So, you want, no, NEED to feel understood ? Why is it that your work colleagues always jump down your throat when you suggest something at work? Why is that your former partner always seems to misunderstand what you are
There are times when I really wished I had thought of something first. The above proposition which was conceived of by Vivek Garg MBA the Texas-based Business Lead and Analyst and published on Linked In is a case in point.
Some facilitators find it a challenge to contain and diffuse ‘eruptions’ in their meetings. Here is a simple approach and suggested sequence of questions to consider and adapt for your own use focusing on peoples core values and interests, to
We live in amazing times. Breakthroughs in technology and scientific knowledge happen so fast that we often ask ourselves whether we will be able to assimilate and understand everything that is happening around us. The advent of social networking and
There are many barriers to resolving conflict but this one is prevalent in most mediations, in one form or another. The feeling of disappointment, disappointment wrapped up in the sadness about the end of a relationship, disappointment about another persons
Are you doing the same things over and over BUT expecting things to improve? People often want to tell me, in mediation assessments, how unreasonable their former partner has been, their ‘blame’ narrative. So, unreasonable, in fact, that their former
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