What's Happening [02.11.14]

What Is Empathy?

Empathy is an important concept and practice for conflict resolution professionals. Read more about it from DailyGood.org:

The term “empathy” is used to describe a wide range of experiences. Emotion researchers generally define empathy as the ability to sense other people’s emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling.

Contemporary researchers often differentiate between two types of empathy: Cognitive & Affective...

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Self-represented Litigants, the Crisis in Access to Justice and the...

Karen Hollett- Dr. Julie MacFarlane at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law recently tweeted that "It’s Official: Being an SRL Makes You Nuts". This caught my eye because I have been thinking the same thing... That is, I mean, that the self represented litigant's (SRL) world couldn't be any unhealthier from the RPM perspective...

Conflict and empathy

Arnold Zeman- Transformative practitioners characterize the nature of conflict as a crisis in human interaction. One of the many features of this crisis is a breakdown in our capacity to recognize or respond to others. We call it 'self-absorption'. Another way of thinking about our capacity for openness to others, which is wounded in conflict, is empathy.…

Are You Beating Around the Bush?

Cinnie Noble- When we are in conflict, some of us avoid coming to the point about something we think may upset the other person. The idiom beat around (or about) the bush describes the sort of prevarication when we delay or are evasive about raising difficult things. Or, it may be we act this way when we are having challenges answering a hard question.

The expression – beating around the bush - has...

February Book: Switch

Amanda Ribeiro Tiradentes- Happy February! Did you know that Table Topics Cafe has an online book club this year? Come join the fun! We're reading Switch: How to change things when change is hard by Chip & Dan Heath this month. For more info...

Working Together and Not Just Side-by-Side: Cultivating Conflict Co...

Patricia M Porter- 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…

Mediation = Control

by mchallamlaw

LAW FIRMS EMBRACE ARBITRATION FOR CLIENTS AND THEMSELVES: IT’S GOOD...

George Friedman- My latest blog post on why arbitration is good business for law firms. With apologies to the folks who made "Airplane!"http://j.mp/NumSWK

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