Step Outside What You Know To Solve Your Dispute

I dont know if any of you watch Fairly Legal, the show about mediation but I so identify with Kate Reed, the mediator. I left the law because of the injustices; there isn’t always a winner or loser; NOTHING is ever black and white and I am really good at helping people see what [...]

Solution Focused Mediation

This is our basic style for so many mediations and facilitations. We are always searching out and digging deep to find common goals, priorities, concerns or any commonality that can help us move forward with the people and the issues with which we are dealing. The question asked and discussed in this post [...]

Mediation = Low Risk and Giant Payoff

Interest based negotiation is such an important part of problem solving. Too often people get locked up in positions and fail to ask the key question(s) that would reveal the underlying interests. But how do we get to those interests? Not in litigation. Once you engage in warfare, there will [...]

The Breakdown of Compromise?

So is it really the death of compromise as Chris Cillizza of the Post seems to state in his recent article. Whether it is the Minnesota government shutdown, the NFL player lockout or more recently the NBA player lockout, Cillizzla says compromise seems to be a bad word. Why? Cillizza states [...]

Mediation with Republicans? Probably Not

(D) Governor Dayton out of Minnesota is seeking budget mediation with the GOP controlled legislature. It does not shock me that republicans refuse to mediate. Whatever the merit of their positions, their game plan for some time now has been to refuse compromise at any level. They are classic “high conflict.” They [...]

Moving Mediation Center Stage

We are dependent on one another. We all know that. Here in American we must come to understand that by taking more personal responsibility for addressing our conflicts rather than turning to third parties to impose solutions we can save so much money, improve our relations, and really give a power boost [...]

More Mandatory Mediation…in Italy

Interesting…..Lawyers want to “strike” against a mandatory mediation law in Italy. Read more here…
Not shocking to me but a good sign that our world is looking into more effective means of conflict resolution than just the adversarial process. As of right now, we know justice is for sale on so many levels, we [...]

Peacebuilding: A Permanent Solution

Check out this great article from the Christian Science Monitor:
Peacebuilding is a new approach to ending war, and it’s becoming a global buzzword. It’s different from peacemaking, which brings politicians around a table to hammer out a peace deal. And it’s different from peacekeeping, which sends foreign soldiers to monitor peace agreements, separate warring parties, [...]

The Facebook Divorce Connection

Social media networking can become a serious issue in many a marriage. What seems like an innocent social connection can quickly morph into a too-close friendship and then into a full blown relationship all the while hidden from your spouse. It is not easy to discern when things have gone too far but [...]

Christians and Divorce Coaching

Divorce is a growing phenomenon in the church. The statistics report that the divorce rate in the church is equal to the divorce rate of non church members. In spite of the growing numbers of divorce in the church population, there are very little resources available to those who are going through a divorce or [...]

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