Virtual Mediation Lab (VML) helps mediators practice their craft.  I recently had the pleasure of conducting a mediation by Skype with the help of Giuseppe Leone and his VML.   You can read about it and see the video here.

Guest blogger, John Peter Weldon, describes efforts in Canada to change the approach that employers use to deal with workplace bullying.  Interest is growing in the idea of offering parties the opportunity to experience transformative mediation, rather than the less effective, traditional, adversarial approach.  You can read the article here.

There's a lot of confusion out there about transformative mediation.  For example, it's often stated that the goal of transformative mediation is to improve relationships.  While that is a common positive side effect of transformative mediation, it's not the mediator's goal.  My latest blog entry, available here, contains a brief description of where the…