Due to the fact I work as a Mediation professor I am always aware of the question of Ethics. Teaching Mediation implies sharing its ethical principles with the students and helping them to observe…
It is no secret that professionals are proud and independent minded. The best professionals in most fields, mediation inclusive, tend to develop uniqueness attributable specifically to their practice…
We live in an age when we all seem to try to get more out of our time. We try to expand time by doing things more quickly and more efficiently than we could before we had airplanes, computers, and…
As I open each mediation session I remind everyone that the mediation is “confidential”, “without prejudice”, “off the record”. I acknowledged that these three concepts don’t mean precisely the same…
Hot off the press: Phillip Hart of LEADR Australia talks with US trainer, facilitator and mediator, Peter Adler about what are the live issues for him currently in the dispute resolution world…
While large scale efforts are being made in order to be recognized as a worldwide and a free standing profession, the mediation became a profession in some countries and it remains an experiment in…
No one expected that the implementation of the EU Mediation Directive would come about easily(1). The recent report from the European Parliament on the implementation of the EU Mediation Directive…
This story is for you if . . .
• You have had several mediations where there are huge gaps in your evaluation of the case versus your adversary’s evaluation of the case;
• You have not spent any time…
Mediation has produced some surprising and unexpected outcomes. One has been its revolutionary speed of acceptance as a means of bringing a civil dispute to a conclusion without judicial…
I like the Christmas season. It marks a very happy time in the year for me and I'm afraid, it makes me a bit silly. In that spirit, I hope readers will forgive that I start off with an Elephant story…
