Alice Estey has been a mediator in private practice since 1991, a mediation instructor at Woodbury College since 1994, and has served as director of the undergraduate Mediation & Conflict Management Certificate Program. She has a passion for teaching, especially teaching adults. In addition to the academic setting, Alice has designed numerous intensive trainings in conflict resolution, negotiation and communications skills for agencies and organizations, and she has been one of the lead trainers for the popular Basic Mediation Skills training offered by Woodbury College for the past 12 years. Although experienced as a mediator in a wide range of arenas, she has particular interest in the facilitation of end-of-life decision-making. She sits on her local hospital’s Medical Ethics Committee, is the author of the booklet When Someone is Dying: What Can I Say? How Can I Help?, which has been distributed widely in hospitals and hospices throughout New England. She currently teaches Negotiations Skills, Mediation Skills and a course on Ethics and Impartiality in the master’s program. Alice lives in Guilford, Vermont and has recently become a student pilot.
