Preparing the Next Generation of Professors of Environmental Studies
This article identifies four approaches to environmental policy-making or problem-solving.
Does Your Work Culture Promote Psychological Safety?
Psychological safety is an important element in successful, productive work cultures. So what does that look like?
5 Smart Financial Tips to Plan a Divorce
It can be easy to get so wrapped up in the details of the present you forget about what is next. Do not make that mistake!
Trust and Rapport - ODR Style!
One of the most important things a mediator must do- if not the most important- is to build trust and rapport with the parties. In pre-Covid days, this was a bit easier; the mediator could sit face to face with each party and schmooze.
Reflection as a Manifestation of Recognition Beyond Relational Weakness and Self-Absorption
While debriefing immediately after a co-mediation, an interesting question arose: “Does a reflection always have the same function regardless of the context?”
ADR & Activism Through Art - Maya Angelou and Frida Kahlo
This article focuses on creativity and negotiation role models.
The Power of Gratitude
Why do you think so many people do not feel gratitude? How would you articulate why a simple emotion can be so elusive?
The Muddy Time
Some of us call it the muddy time. It’s the time in between the decision to divorce and when the actual divorce is made final.
Helping Kids Adjust to Life When Parents Go Through Divorce
If you are going through a divorce, one of the most significant concerns you may have is the effect it has on your children.
Don't Look Where You Fall
“I’ve learned so much from my mistakes. I’m thinking about making a few more.”
One Year Later: Zoom Fatigue
Almost one year ago, life for most of us changed irrevocably: we went from commuting to and from our offices and fighting traffic to commuting between our bedrooms and “home” offices and fighting over internet access.
Managing Expectations to Avoid Conflict
Expectations are part of living as a human being. If we are in a relationship, we expect to be treated a certain way.
Annoy the Mediator at Your Own Risk: Negotiation Tactics and Missteps to Avoid, Part 2
In this post, I explore more aggravating, and avoidable, behaviors that may upset or undermine the mediator and the mediation process.
Ways to Practice Building Your Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence (EQ) plays a major part in negotiation.
Blind Spots and Conflict
Shining a light on your blind spots can help you with conflict.
Open- v Closed-Ended Questions
I’m about to teach a bit on interviewing and counseling and am using a fun video on different types of questions courtesy of my nieces.
Using Private Mediation for a Happier Divorce
The term “happy divorce” seems like an oxymoron, and maybe it is.
The Opportunity of Rejection
Fear of rejection can inhibit ones possibilities to reach full potential in life and in the mediation room. Based on an experiment of actively seeking rejection, what can a mediator learn from the connection between conflict and rejection?
Start 2021 with Apology and Forgiveness!
It struck me that as we start 2021, perhaps it is a good time to “turn over a new leaf” by apologizing for our acts and/or omissions and forgiving others for their acts/omissions committed in 2020.
Conversation, Kindness, and Democracy
Are kindness and conversation still possible? What about the many other people who share a perspective with those folks and are not themselves violent?
Divorce Noise
It’s so normal for us to ask questions and want information from those who have already been through this overwhelming time in our lives.
Landscape of Dispute Resolution
When you hear about the word landscape of dispute resolution, the first thing that comes to the mind of the people is litigation before a court of competent jurisdiction. However, the parties need to be made aware that the landscape of dispute resolution is wider. It includes along with litigation, arbitration and mediation.
Collaboration is the Future
Lawyers love conflict. They thrive on it. If anyone can coexist with conflict, it’s a lawyer.
Ultimatums in Conflict Resolution
Empty threats in dispute resolution change nothing.
When the Cure is Worse Than the Disease: Civil liberties Under Attack
As COVID concerns spread, conditioning from the media and celebrities talking about how everyone needed to comply with random, and often contradictory orders began to make the rounds of TV and social media.
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