This is a commonly asked question about mediators. Simply put, mediators “create a safe environment” for a conversation between parties in conflict. They oversee, manage and ‘own’ the process of your meeting. They guide the conversation by directing who can speak,...
“Lost in Space” was a childhood favorite so I’ve been watching it as part of a local station’s Saturday night lineup (I’m a geek I know). In the episode “The Golden Man” the Robinsons’ find themselves among two aliens...
Nancy and Wes really enjoyed being interviewed on the radio in July 2012. Miriam Hickerson interviewed them on her Spanish-speaking program “Consumer Protection”. The program broadcasts on KRLV 1340AM in Las Vegas, NV. See and hear the video:
A few years ago, I was driving on the freeway and a rock hit my windshield. At first, there was just a walnut-sized ding, but by the time I got to my office, there were cracks coming out of the ding. It looked like a Halloween spider made out of pipe cleaners. I knew...
It may be when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. – Wendell Berry I came across this quote recently and it caused me to take pause. I had to read and...
It’s a possibility that an effect of your “uncoupling” is that you’re living alone, at times, for the first time in a long time, and sometimes not by your own choice. No matter. Living alone, even if it’s a day or two each month, is a...
“…people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.” Steve Jobs This week the world lost one of the great innovators of our era. Steve Jobs was a visionary who changed the way we live and whose life will be ranked with other greats...
Co-mediation involves two mediators working together with the couple. Mediation Around The Table utilizes co-mediators to add professional expertise to the agreement. The advantages of having two professionals to help develop the agreement are: more ideas, more...
Do you know someone contemplating a divorce? Until a few years ago, I always felt badly for my friends who embarked on this contentious and expensive journey. I didn’t know there was any alternative but to undergo the bitterness and cost of the litigious divorce. Then...
I am often referred to as an arbitrator. In actuality, I am a mediator and there is a difference. While both mediation and arbitration are ways to avoid litigation, there is a big difference. In mediation, you make the decisions with the help of a mediator. In...
Peer Conferences have been around for hundreds or maybe even thousands of years in a variety of cultures. Mainstream business has seen the benefit of this process for about 30 years. When I was supervising a laundry department early in my career I was asked to develop...
As thousands of gay and lesbian couples are planning weddings in states such as New York, Massachusetts, Iowa and a few others, where their hard-fought right to marry has been secured, others around the nation are fighting for the right to divorce. And in this case,...
