challenges

Attending Harvard’s Program on Negotiation has been life and career changing for many of us – influencing careers in negotiation, mediation and coaching amongst others. 'Getting to Yes', first…

Law students are probably familiar with a diagram like the one above. It arranges different ways of resolving disputes according to how much say parties have in the outcome. Much as Felstiner and…

Congruence is one of the superpowers the universe makes available to us. When we behave congruently - so that everything we do is in harmony with everything we say – we are at our most persuasive,…

"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…

  Covid is the gift that keeps on giving. It has provided a wonderful focus for blame that has let us off the hook for a lot of things. It has coincided with significant changes in our mediation…

'Because you're distant, forgive me for being a little bit bossy' (Paddy O'Connell, BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House) After plying their trade for a while mediators (and broadcasters) develop a…

"Racially discriminatory behavior may be reduced more effectively when racial issues are made salient rather than ignored or obscured." (1) This week I've been thinking about white privilege. Ok, my…

You are usually at a disadvantage for you will take over the boat in midst of the conflict storm without having the chance to prepare the crew and to check on the ship. Yet you are charged to…

A week or so ago, on the train from Edinburgh to London, we were joined - across the table - by two women who got on at York. As is our wont, and probably theirs, we all offered brief greetings and…