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Comparative Data on Mediation Websites: Most Visited and Most Linked (4/18/18)
According to Alexa.com, Mediate.com is most visited and most linked mediation website. In business since 1996, Mediate.com has over 6 million annual site visitors and serves as a bridge between professionals offering dispute resolution services and people needing these services.
The Intractability Barrier in Child Dependency (4/13/18)
Stories of successfully breaking the intractability barrier in child dependency mediation: Conflict can be dealt with more successfully & less harmfully. (Say it with me.)
Why Are You And Your Sibling Fighting Over Your Parent's House? (4/12/18)
In this model, the lawyer-mental health professional duo creates a safe container for you and your sibling to communicate authentically about what really matters to you.
Is the Overconfidence Effect Sabotaging Your Communication? (4/05/18)
The overconfidence effect is a natural bias toward believing that we’re better at something than we actually are.
A Modest Proposal to Mitigate Sexual Harassment and Misconduct in the Workplace (4/05/18)
Social and news media bombard us daily with accounts of sexual harassment and misconduct by captains of industry, the arts and politics.
Mediate.com Recognized as a Top Attorney Directory for SEO! (3/26/18)
Now celebrating our 23rd Year, Mediate.com has been recognized as a Top Law Firm Directory.
Strategies for Giving Feedback That People Can Hear (3/23/18)
More often than not, we are surprised when we get a negative reaction after having provided feedback to a peer or colleague.
Splitting America Redux: Implications for Keeping our Kids Safe (3/16/18)
After 911, our lives changed seemingly forever. No longer a safe, secure, innocent society, Americans have come to a tipping point.
Why Ego Management is Key to Effective Mediation (3/16/18)
In the 1990s, the very suggestion of facilitated negotiation was viewed with equal parts suspicion and contempt by most seasoned trial lawyers
Healing Effects of Mediation on Kids to Achieve and Spread Infinite Positive Outcomes (3/16/18)
The article is sums up the infinite reasons/ outcomes that the healing effects of mediation can bring to kids in our society.
Working with Challenging Family Situations: A Mediator's Perspective (3/16/18)
If you were asked to stop doing any of these simple tasks, what feelings and emotions might you experience?
The Need for a Paradigm Shift for Transforming Relational Conflict (3/16/18)
This paper provides a brief overview of mediation with a focus on clients’ self-determinism in family mediation or family dispute resolution (FDR) and Ontario court-connected alternative dispute resolution (ADR) programs.
Playing the Blame Game the Right Way (3/16/18)
A common reason for workplace tension is biased judgement.
Top Ten Ways To Protect Your Kids From The Fallout Of A High Conflict Break-Up (3/14/18)
Joan is an author, therapist, mediator, and parenting coordinator with four decades of experience working with high conflict parents who are separating.
What it Takes to be Conflict Masterful (3/09/18)
How we define conflict mastery and the characteristics needed to be and be seen as such varies.
Change Is Coming: Tax Reform Act Punishes Divorcing Couples (3/02/18)
The new act aims to prevent this “nefarious” practice, often labeled as a divorce subsidy, by rendering alimony payments as after tax income, beginning with the 2019 tax year.
You Look Like Someone I Can Trust! (2/22/18)
When my sister had just been born, my mother boarded a crowded war time train with my sister in her arms, then turnd and handed the baby to a trusting stranger.
Can this Key Ingredient Protect Your Marriage from Relationship Conflict? (2/16/18)
Couples can have big fights, frequent conflict, and even bicker all the time and still have healthy, fulfilling, and lasting relationships. How so?
4 Game-Changing Tips to Build Your Divorce Mediation Practice (2/15/18)
Whether you are just opening the doors of your divorce mediation practice, or you have been a professional family mediator for many years, considering these 4 Game Changing Tips with potential clients can be game-changers for developing your more successful mediation practice.
Educating the Dispute Resolvers of the Future (2/09/18)
The ICC Mediation Competition in Paris, and the growing number of others like it, are contributing to a change in the way disputes are going to be resolved in the future.
What Does the 2017 Tax Law Mean for Divorcing Couples? (2/02/18)
I sat down with Jill Boynton of Cornerstone Financial Planning to find out how this law will effect divorcing couples.
Ask the Judge - Do I need an Attorney's Help to Create a Parenting Plan? (2/02/18)
As long as you and your coParent are committed to working together to create a Parenting Plan that’s best for your children, there is no need for extra costs.
Mediating Family Property and Estate Conflicts: Keeping the Peace and Preserving Family Wealth (1/30/18)
Of all of the cases I have mediated over the past 30 years, the most challenging and rewarding disputes have been those between family members over family property, estates, trusts and businesses.
Hiring a Divorce Attorney? Buyer Beware (1/19/18)
John Keith wrote the following: “It is inherent in our role that we fight other peoples’ battles, but this duty encourages us to identify with our clients and view their battles as our own.”
When the Day is Done (1/12/18)
When you consider what is most important to you about the conflict and the other person, what is the optimum way of proceeding, do you think?
Family Counseling to Resolve Conflict? (1/12/18)
If you are a member of a family, whether it is as father, mother, child, sibling or an extended member, there will be conflict.
Overcoming Clients' Road Blocks in Conflict Management Coaching (1/05/18)
As conflict management coaches it is common that we witness our clients encounter blocks during the course of our engagement.
Children and ADR (1/05/18)
Children are involved in ADR processes in five main contexts.
Why Gray is My Favorite Color (1/05/18)
This article addresses the relationship between mediator neutrality and success in mediation.
End of the Year: The Kids are Alright (12/29/17)
End of year. Time to reflect and take stock. Time to recharge and reset.