Reading Time: 2 minutes I get asked this all the time when negotiations go south. “What’s the point of mediating when we already know everything they have to say?” My answer is simple: Mediation involves a much bigger box than litigation. Here are three reasons why:...
Difficult Conversations
Reading Time: 2 minutes Have you ever wondered what it is about certain conversations that make them so difficult to have? Even when a skilled negotiator is present there are some situations that just seem unworkable. What if I told you that part of the answer is...
Designing the Right Mediation
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Sufi Poet Rumi once said: “Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” Conflicts can be said to begin in our stories of the past and our attachment to our positions as the best and sometimes only...