Originally posted on the BC Distance Family Mediation blog

Today's post is the first in a two-part series on mediator competence and self-awareness. It is our good fortune to have guest blogger,…

Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Hon. John C. Cratsley (Ret.) Joins JAMS

January 23, 2012

Boston – JAMS, the largest private provider of mediation and arbitration services worldwide, today announced the addition of Hon. John C. Cratsley (Ret.) to its panel. Judge Cratsley will be based in the JAMS Boston Resolution Center. He will serve as an arbitrator, mediator and special master for disputes in a variety of areas including…

The expression thinking ‘outside of the box’ typically relates to being creative about ideas – like stepping outside of enclosed lines that constrain thinking. When the concept comes up in the conflict management context, it occurs when people in dispute are contemplating the options available to them regarding their opposing views. The ‘out of the box’ notion is meant to help disputants get away from steadfastly held positions and consider what other solutions may be mutually…

Appreciative inquiry as a dispute resolution…

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Originally posted at www.NonverbalPhd.com

For those interested in nonverbal communication (body language, gestures, appearance, semiotics, voice tone, touch, etc.) both from a research and academic perspective or if you have just a 'casual' interest in the subject, I thought I…

JAMS, the largest private provider of mediation and arbitration services worldwide, today announced the addition of Eleissa C. Lavelle, Esq. to its panel. Ms. Lavelle will be based in the JAMS Las Vegas Resolution Center and will serve as an arbitrator and mediator for disputes in a variety of areas including Business/Commercial, Construction and Real Estate.

Before joining JAMS, Ms. Lavelle was a partner at Duane Morris where she represented owners, financial institutions,…

It often happens that the more positional we are about an issue in dispute, the more stuck we are about discussing the matter – much less reconciling matters. Our ability to negotiate, discuss and make amends deteriorates at these times and the other person may dig in his or her shoes in response to us. Or, he or she may have been the one to take a stand in the first place and our reaction contributes to the discord.

We get stuck for many reasons, depending on things like what the…

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Front-line managers to CEOs are all asked to put out fires and fix problems. Stephen Kotev, my guest co-host and I will discuss a simple way to determine what is going wrong in the workplace. We will focus on what managers can do to unravel their problems and understand new ways of breaking down issues into resolvable segments. We will review 5 areas that are the most common root causes to conflict.…

Remembering Ray Shonholtz…

Many of us think we have to win disagreements – that we have to be and be seen as right and that the other person is wrong and has to concede to our viewpoint.  The competitive underpinnings to this approach set up a win-lose scenario and this isn’t usually an optimum way for reconciling conflict differences.

In some cases, agreeing to disagree may be a good outcome. However, for some of us that doesn’t quite work. The reality is, our view of rightness does not have to…

(Originally posted at SocialMedi8r.com)

Let me guess, you run your own company, you do the books, the marketing, the administrative work, and you have to actually do your job on top of that.  You have your social life, your home life, and you're in charge of walking the dog.  You think to yourself regularly, "Man...I wish…

Time's Role In Mediation, Negotiation & Conflict Resolution

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Robert Fulghum, an American author, is quoted as saying "Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts" not to mention our spirits. Name calling, mudslinging, defaming and insulting words are all about impulsively responding to someone or something that is a threat to the beliefs, values or attitudes we hold dear. We learn it as kids as way to protect ourselves and to hurt others…

This week we lost a great peacebuilding visionary and pioneer, Raymond Shonholtz.  I, along with many others, lost a friend, teacher, partner and mentor. As founder of Community Boards, Ray practically invented the modern community mediation center --  transforming the idea from a quasi-court apparatus to full-service hub for…

(Originally published in dialogicmediation.com)

In responding to a court application for divorce of a same-sex couple married in Canada, a federal government lawyer has taken the position:

1. Non-resident couples who marry in Canada "must live in the…

When other people provoke us, our perceptions of what is happening sometimes tends to be distorted. Typically, the more egregious the exchange and the angrier we become, the more negative our perspectives are. It seems that once we are irritated by another person and especially if our feelings grow with repeated interactions, it is challenging to disabuse ourselves of the assumptions about the other person and his or her motives. What also happens in many cases is that we get stuck in our…

JAMS, the largest private provider of mediation and arbitration services worldwide, today announced the addition of Ralph B. Levy, Esq. to its panel. Mr. Levy will be based in the JAMS Atlanta Resolution Center. He will serve as an arbitrator, mediator and special master for disputes in a variety of areas including Accounting/Finance, Banking, Bankruptcy, Business/Commercial, Insurance, Professional Liability, Real Property and Securities.

Mr. Levy joins JAMS after nearly 40…