Everyday life is filled with interactions between superiors and subordinates. Whether you are up or down the food chain, you have to work with someone who has either more or less power than you. Join Columbia University Professor Peter Coleman, as we…

There have already been major transformative mediation conferences in Italy and Slovenia; and there's a large number of practitioners in the UK.  The Netherlands, too, has been a hub of transformative mediation activity.  And in June, it will host a major conference.  You can read about it here.

In legal circles, mediation is still understood to include opinions from the mediator on the strengths and weaknesses of the legal case.  It's too bad.  Here's a conversation about it.

If mediation is supposed to be about self-determination, where does evaluation fit in?  It doesn't.  Read the latest blog post about it here.

Customers and traders have much more balanced relationship now than in the past, due to the role of social media and customer reviews. The key role of online social media forces traders to actively engage in partner dialogue with their customers. Customers will…

For mediators who see it as their job to get a deal done, it's unthinkable to mediate for friends, especially if the mediator is closer to one party than the other.  But mediators who commit to being supportive of both parties find it much easier to work with friends.  Hey, if you wouldn't treat your friends like mediation clients, maybe you aren't treating your clients right! Read the article…

We negotiate every single day over important and routine requests. Spouses negotiate over household and financial duties, co-workers negotiate time off, job tasks, promotions and salaries. When a perceived disagreement or dispute erupts, know how to negotiate…

There has been an increased emphasis on teamwork and collaboration in the delivery of health services over the past decade. Much of this has been due to research that indicates the need for good communication and coordination in order to provide safe and effective care to…

Mediators are often torn between their desire to get the parties to a result and their intention to support party self-determination.  Those two directions are mutually incompatible.  This blog post explores 3 common mediation interventions that undermine party self-determination.  You can read the post here.

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We have all experienced the drama when we engage in…

In this blog post, you can see the 6 actions that Bush and Folger say are needed to save mediation.  You can read the blog post here.

Join us on November 25th at 8 pm Eastern as Katherine Josten, artist and founder of the Global Art Project for Peace discusses how local communities from across the globe actively join together to…

In the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation's latest blog post, 5 reasons are suggested for why it's so hard for mediators to live up to the ideal of party self-determination.  You can read it here.

In this blog entry, volunteer mediator, Pamela Gregg, describes how meaningful she has found the work.  You can read it here. 

When employers want to handle conflict in their organizations, in a way that resolves disputes and improves work environment, they choose transformative mediation. The State of Ohio is the most recent large organization to provide its employees with the option of using transformative mediation.  You can read more about the program here.

The practice of mediation is largely unregulated throughout the United States. In contrast to more formalized professions, such as nursing, social work, law, medicine or…

In this digitally connected age, social media has become a powerful tool to advance peace. Join Dr. Craig Zelizer as we discuss how to move beyond the click and utilize these powerful tools to promote peace. Listen in on October 7^th and meet us…

(Originally published in the blog of conflictconversations.org)

Mediation, including family mediation, is not regulated in Ontario. There are, however, a number of voluntary associations that can attest to the credentials or the skills of their members. Nonetheless, it’s crucial then that couples in search of…

The latest blog entry at the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation tells a story of a mediation where the parties called all the shots.  You can read it here.

Whether we are aware of it or not we live in a racial world, which proposes equality, but is firmly set on hierarchy, inequality, and separation. patterns of racial dysfunction have been handed down from generation to generation. How do we transform these patterns and begin to live the connection that is part of our natural human existence?

Milagros…