Mediation

7-10-2016 High Hopes - I'm expanding the scope of my blog to include to include talk about mediation and conflict resolution. It's an area of study that I've become passionate about. Mediation is about resolving conflict by finding common ground and creating space for honest communication.

7-15-2016 What is Mediation? - Mediation is a type of negotiation. In a way we've all been dong it all our lives. If you are a parent, child, sibling, aunt, uncle, husband, wife, employer, employee - if you are a person who interacts with others in more than a casual acquaintance kind of way - I can all but guarantee you have been involved in mediation of some sort at least once in your lifetime.

7-20-16 Are you a scout or a soldier? - It's only when there are too many soldiers and not enough scouts in the conversation that conflict escalates and becomes nasty.

7-31-16 T*H*I*N*K* - I find the social media and news media chatter upsetting. It used to be that negative campaigning was limited to the politicians themselves. The mud slinging, the name calling, the loud talking over each other was limited to the candidates. Today, it seems we have all been drawn into it.

1-16-2020 The Economics of Mediation -  self-determination means that the parties are the only ones who can know what they want and how to resolve the impasse. A judge may be able to settle the matter by imposing laws, rules or regulations but the settled effect is often temporary because it doesn't address what even the winner really wanted. Unless vengeance is really what they wanted.