What is your profession and title?

Mediator, Attorney, Collaborative Professional

What is your ADR experience? (trainings and education)

Background as attorney, 40 hr General facilitative mediation training, 40 hr Community Mediation training, Adv training in Elder Mediation, Adv training in Special Education mediation; Private practice is 90% mediation or conflict coaching.

What, if any, ADR organizations or groups do you belong to?

ACR

What are you hoping to get from ADRhub.com

Networking, thinking

Do you/your company have a website?

http://www.xanskinner.com

What other ADR related sites do you visit?

mediate.com, lots of blogs, ABA site, ACRnet

What else do you want to tell the ADRhub.com community (what you are up to, what you would like to do in ADR, etc.)

I am addicted to the "magic moment" when the parties see each other's view, put anger behind, forgive and reconcile. I know it doesn't happen every time, and so I don't expect it, but I'm fortunate that it happens a lot of the time in my practice. Indeed, speaking of failures or times when it doesn't happen: Remember the bumper sticker that "A bad day fishing is better than a good day at the office"? Well, that's about how I feel about the mediation / interest based paradigm of conflict resolution, as compared with litigation.