Mediation Blog
Listening To Understand
This past week, I taught my last class for the semester at the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law. The online course entitled Employment Dispute Mediation teaches the students how to mediate "from [Read More]
Good News for Mediation: People prefer settling to trials!
I stumbled upon a study entitled “Settlementality” by Jessica Bregant, Jennifer K. Robbennolt & Verity Winship which surveyed over 1,000 U. S. adults on their basic knowledge of settlements and what. If any, role the [Read More]
The Casualness of Mediating via Zoom
Last weekend, I attended a conference of fellow mediators. One of the points raised was that mediating via Zoom, or any other video-conference platform requires a different skill set and for those new mediators (of [Read More]
A Bad Apology is Worse Than No Apology!
Several weeks ago, I wrote a blog about a New York Times article on apologizing and how to do so like you mean it. The article notes that an apology has to be carefully orchestrated [Read More]
Fear and Decision Making!
Recently, I stumbled upon an article about women, fear and decision making. According to a recent study published in PLOS, these three concepts are related: … fear may affect women’s decisions in choosing immediate rewards [Read More]
The Importance of Showing Up!
This semester I am teaching an online Employment Dispute Mediation course at USC Gould School of Law. Using employment law as the substantive vehicle, I am teaching my students essentially how to be mediators from [Read More]