Practical Challenges for Mediators

 The late Michael Leathes’ enormous contribution to the development and uptake of non-determinative dispute resolution processes will be celebrated at and long after his memorial service in Oxford in…

 The recent post by Ting-Kwok IU examined the Hong Kong Ordinance designed to protect children from abuse and to protect some professionals (excluding mediators) for reporting such abuse. This has…

  There are usually numerous issues to be resolved in mediated commercial disputes, for example: whether a relationship should be continued or terminated and, on what basis; the terms upon which any…

  Insomnia drove me to a late-night television binge recently and I watched a rerun of  Pretty Woman, the 1990 movie starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. For those of you yet to see this movie,…

  Photo by Joachim Köhler. In the famous story of Noah’s Ark, Noah questions God about how he will find the animals he has been instructed to put in the ark. God replies, ‘If you build it, they will…

It’s been a long time since I wrote a blog just about mediation practice. Other things always seem more important! However, as I was mediating this week, a thought occurred to me about a rather…

  Offers in mediation are too often approached with all the coyness of gauche teenagers at a school dance (acknowledging that this metaphor may reveal too much about my own youth!). It need not be…

It's been a while since I wrote about practical tips for mediators. Yet when I ask people what they want from training or teaching the commonest answer is... practical tips. I offer some below on…

For a while now some of my mediations and facilitations have been taking place again in physical spaces, while others remain virtual, as does most of my teaching and training. The effects of Corona…