Blogs
You will find useful articles on conflict-related topics.
WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: The Guide to Reflective Practice in Conflict Resolution, 2nd Edition by Michael Lang
I was very fortunate to be given the opportunity to read a final draft of this book before it’s officially published. I have been a huge fan of Michael’s work since reading his and Alison Taylor’s book The Making of a Mediator over 20 years ago. This book was a turning point in my approach
CRITICAL REFLECTION: Marketing settlement rates
In our Beyond the Table course, we have an entire module on ethics. But it doesn’t focus on the ethics of practice in the sense of what we do in the mediation or coaching room with the client. Rather, it focuses on the ethics of doing business in the conflict services field. We look at
Are frameworks useful to help understand complex conflict contexts?
Claire Holland and Judith Rafferty, conflict management specialists, academics, researchers and trainers with the Conflict Management Academy (CMA), say YES! According to Judith and Claire, frameworks are a useful way to break down and look at complicated conflict situations in a way that can bring greater awareness, understanding, and clarity to the situation. It’s not
WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: Staying with Conflict by Bernard Mayer
This book is not new, it’s been around since 2009, but it remains one of the few books about how to work with conflict that is not resolvable, or that may take many years to resolve. The book introduces the role of the conflict specialist (in contrast to the more limited ‘conflict resolver’ and their
WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: Third Millennium Thinking by Saul Perlmutter, John Campbell and Robert MacCoun.
This book, written by a physicist, a philosopher and a psychologist/lawyer is basically about how to apply the “thinking tools” used by experts in these disciplines to everyday life and decision making. It’s about managing information overwhelm, and learning how to think. The book developed from a UC Berkeley course called “Big Ideas” that taught
Transformative mediation – separating the myth from the reality
Many mediators know about transformative mediation, but in my experience, not many mediators really understand it. I was certified as a transformative mediator in 2010 (Baruch Bush was my assessor) and was approved to teach transformative mediation by the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation (ISCT) a few years later. Since then, I have
