How To Be An Expert Facilitator

John Spence shares some great insight from his 15+ years of being a facilitator.

The list includes:

1. The number one goal as a facilitator is to have a clear map for where you’re trying to get to by the end of the event.
2. To be a… Guide on the Side – not a Sage on the Stage!

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Mediation for Divorce

Explain collaborative divorce coaching: People can become as traumatized by the process itself as knowing a marriage needed to end. We try to operate in a nonlitigious, nonadversarial process that engages people and brings them together in a problem-solving way that helps them come out emotionally healthy. You can’t threaten to go to court.

Read the full interview with Elana Katz HERE (outside link to NYT)

Mediation for Foreclosures

...The programs are not working. As of May 31, just 56 homeowners have gotten a modification of their loan.

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Nicole Bohe- Sometimes it is easy to have tunnel-vision when it comes to conflict resolution curriculum. Every student, professor, practitioner, etc. has very different concepts of how they want to focus their skills. For example, I am currently a law student; therefore, my ADR coursework has been geared toward supplementing my legal skills...

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