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"[A]n offbeat online confessional in pursuit of reflective mediation."
Author: Geoff Sharp is a commercial mediator in Wellington, New Zealand.
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blah... blah... bows out
Regular visitors to this blog will have noticed a gradual decline in posting over the last couple of months.Life, dear reader, has got busy and the call of the keyboard is not what it was…
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What Difference Does a Robe Make? Comparing Mediators with and without Prior Judicial Experience
An intriguing article (abstract only) in July's Negotiation Journal (Jul 2009. Vol. 25) by Stephen Goldberg, Margaret Shaw, Jeanne Brett reporting the results of two studies;"... a glance at the rosters of some of the…
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Live Blogging from the AMINZ Conference
Today in Wellington at Te Papa, our national museum, we are enjoying the most stimulating gathering of mediators at the New Zealand Arbitrators' and Mediators' Institute Conference '09. Program here.North Carolina mediator, attorney and author…
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Watch This
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Improvisation, Negotiation and All That Jazz
Some while ago I started a post with;'Yeah well, I'm not sure that I get the whole 'mediators can learn from improv comedy' thing to be honest...'But since then I have read the wonderfully refreshing…
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40 Superb Psychology Blogs
For those brave mediators who delve into this stuff, check out 40 Superb Psychology Blogs - this post from Psyblog lists forty of the best psychology blogs, chosen to give a broad sweep of the…
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Lines are being blurred in modern mediation practice like never before
This blog, if you care to take a sampling of past posts, is not that of a white-hat-mediator.That's because I believe life at the coalface of mediation practice is wonderfully confused, frustrating and often dirty,…
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Yeah, I agree with this...
"Professor Roberts argues that this prevents the parties working out a settlement themselves and instead they were dependent upon the mediator. He therefore concluded that the shuttling model was at fault; causing the mediator to…
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Nice collection of articles by AIM Institute faculty just posted
"Neutrals Reveal Tips With Their Opening Statements"By Lee Jay BermanMost mediations begin with the mediator's opening statement, much to the consternation of the lawyers (many of whom have heard them many times before) and their…
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Deal or No Deal: Improving the Odds of Successful Mediation
I have posted before on Don Philbin's masterpiece The One Minute Manager Prepares for Mediation: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Negotiation Preparation published in vol 13 of The Harvard Negotiation Law Review and a serious piece…