I was talking with a fellow mediator and trainer the other day when the conversation moved to our experience training new mediators. We shared the joys of seeing people use the skills and abilities that they had already developed prior to starting to become a mediator. We also talked about some of the obstacles that […]

Last week we had one of our on-campus residencies for the newest cohort of grad students in the Mediation and Applied Conflict Studies program. I always look forward to the residencies because, for me, nothing substitutes for working in-person with my students.
I was wrapping up teaching Interpersonal Conflict with this group; it’s a course […]

Is there a difference between training mediators and educating mediators? I think so and I’m going to put myself far out on the limb here. No doubt one of you will want to shake me right off.
While training will likely always have its place in the ADR world, I’d like to see greater embrace […]

One of my most treasured times in my professional ADR life were the months spent with my three core faculty colleagues, planning the curriculum for what would become Woodbury’s master’s degree in mediation.
We’d all been teaching in the undergraduate mediation certificate program for a while, but since all of the faculty are full-time practitioners in […]