All Blog Posts Tagged 'Tarzana' (4)

As I enter September, I feel as though a series of enormous weights has finally been lifted from my back; I hope that I've come to the end of my annus horribilus.…

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{the First in an occasional series of articles)

Since I began my mediation career just seven years ago, the question that I have…

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In my last blog post, I described, at length, my personal methodology in crafting a mediator's proposal. Today, I'm going to consider what I call the "blowback," which is the downside of the method itself. It's something that's always on my front burner whenever I'm actively involved in "moving the goalposts."



There's an important ideological divide between facilitative and evaluative mediation, and it's one that I'm not entirely comfortable with. Let's examine the relative strengths… Continue

Because many of you reading this newsletter are professionals in the ADR field, professionals who utilize ADR and/or people who have a personal interest in mediation, it becomes habitual to think of mediation as a process by which a trained professional sits down with two disputing parties, typically in the framework of litigation, a divorce, or some sort of legal-based conflict, and tries to move the two sides to resolution without recourse to the lengthy, expensive and, often, anguishing… Continue