Our guest and author, Robert Batista will share his passion and journey to curb and stop gun violence through his writing and novellas called Street Angel and The City Game. He will talk about the “iron pipeline” and the collateral impact of gun violence. Gun violence is not the…

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.

(First published in Conflict Conversations blog)

A recent Supreme Court of Canada decision, Union Carbide Canada Inc. v. Bombardier Inc., 2014 SCC…

(First published on Dialogic Mediation Services)

This quotation is taken from a recent post on Dr. Julie Macfarlane's blog on the National Self-Represented Litigants Project that takes its mandate from the National Self-Represented Litigants (SRL’s) Research…

Guest blogger, Dusty Rhoades, discusses the importance of theory in mediation.  You can read the article here.

In my latest blog entry, available here, I discuss how conflict is characterized by a sense of loss of autonomy.  The beauty of mediation is that, if it's done right, it can return a sense of autonomy to the parties.  Unfortunately, mediation is often conducted in a way that keeps parties feeling powerless.  The transformative approach provides guidance on how to keep party autonomy…

If we believe in self-determination, shouldn't we honor our clients' requests for advice?  I mean, they asked for it - they determined themselves that they wanted it?Read the whole article here.