Christmas is a holiday and a time for reflection and relaxation for many around the world, so in this blog post I won’t focus on mediation as it is practiced and trained. Instead I make two…
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama tells the story of a family living in Tokyo over 30 years. Two brothers, one a sumo wrestler and the other a maker of Noh theater masks, are forced…
Starting from January 1, 2021 the law requiring the attendance of the initial first mediation session comes into force in Azerbaijan. Below we describe the steps taken in the previous months and to…
Note: This was co-authored with Samuel Teo and I would like to acknowledge his significant contributions to the preparation of this entry.
In past entries, I have highlighted a peer mediation…
"I think the EU will need to move significantly on both those key points because they’re points of principle." (Dominic Raab, UK Foreign Secretary, speaking on the BBC this morning)
The Brexit…
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions” was a saying I heard quite a few times while growing up, as another childhood wheeze bit the dust. I returned to it while reading Michal Sandel’s…
Dear Young Mediation Enthusiast,
Thank you for writing to me and expressing your great interest in mediation after going through the 40-hour training and passing the accreditation assessments with…
I write this in the aftermath of yet another mediation in which the protagonists exhibited symptoms of having been seriously traumatised by the litigation process to which they had been exposed.…
"Half moons ago
people were hollowed-out tablets of stone
spaces were given them
according to spaces they left
. . .
some spaces were filled with darkness
no light would shine there . . ."
- From "…
The question recently occurred to me whether we would have reached the kinds of online worlds of work we now have in many fields without the need to do so due to Covid-19. Would it have happened…
