Reflective Practice

Developing the Field, Dialogue, Future of mediation, ICC Mediation Competition, Promoting Mediation, Reflective Practice, Skills, Training, Transformation

(Bond & Bond Mediation / University of Wildau )/ /3 Comments

I was again privileged to be at the ICC International Commercial Mediation Competition in early February, which this time included a new event – an intergenerational round table, workshops for student and professional participants together. It began with an hour of dialogue around one table, where participants were asked to generate and discuss questions for…

Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Future of mediation, Mediation Practice, Negotiation, Reflective Practice, Research

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Early in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1891 short story A Scandal in Bohemia, Sherlock Holmes gives Watson a lecture on the difference between seeing and observing. To test how well Watson understood, Holmes hands him an unaddressed, undated, anonymous letter that had just arrived on the doormat. It announced that an unnamed visitor would shortly…

Commercial Mediation, Confidentiality, Confidentiality and Transparency, Creativity, Disclosure, Efficiency, Improvisation, Interests, lawyers in mediation, Mediation Agreement, Mediation Outcomes, Mediation Practice, mediation process, Mediators’ Conduct, Practical Challenges for Mediators, Reflective Practice, Stages of mediation, The role of the mediator, Uncategorized

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The Dilemma: At an initial private meeting with a lawyer and his lay client in a mediation, it became obvious to the mediator that he had previously mediated in a matter which was related to the present dispute, the outcome of which was not known to the present parties. In the mediator’s view, it had…

Communication, Dialogue, Dispute Resolution, Instinct, Mediation Practice, Reflective Practice, Skills

(Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London)/ /7 Comments

“As they sometimes say around Kyoto, ‘Don’t just do something. Sit there.’” The Art of Stillness, Pico Iyer Recently I had the good fortune of watching fellow blogger, John Sturrock QC, mediate. In the days which have followed, I’ve been reflecting on what I learnt from observing the mediation. What helped the parties in this…

Argument, Below the line, Bias, Brexit, caucus, Cognitive Bias, Conflict, Conventional wisdom, Creativity, Decision making, Dialogue, Ethics, Fear, General, Impasse, Instinct, Interests, Intuition, Joint Sessions, Leaders, Leadership, Mediation Outcomes, Mediation Practice, mediation process, Mediators’ Conduct, Negotiation, Non-violent communication, Patience, Perception, Practical Challenges for Mediators, Reflective Practice, shuttle mediation, Skills, Status, Success in mediation, Tactics, Teamwork, The role of the mediator, Tips, Transformation

(Bill Marsh Mediator)/ /4 Comments

One of the privileges of mediating is to watch leaders at work. Every party, every team, has its leader(s). And as any mediator will tell you, the way in which they choose to lead during a mediation – and more widely during the conflict or dispute itself – has a significant impact on the outcome;…

Decision making, Developing the Field, Future of mediation, Mediation Practice, Public Policy, Reflective Practice, Scotland, The role of the mediator

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My last blog reflected on an excellent mediation conference in Frankfurt on the Oder where the strength which comes from working together was clear. I started this present blog on the day that the EU agreed the terms of the UK’s departure from the organisation that has been such a significant part of Europe’s post-second…

Communication, Dialogue, Personal Development, Reflective Practice, Trust, Workplace Mediation

(Bond & Bond Mediation / University of Wildau )/ /1 Comment

Over recent years I have been fortunate to be able to travel widely for work, and everywhere I go I find time to visit places of worship and sit quietly or attend services – in mosques, churches, synagogues and temples. I listen, either to the silence, to my thoughts, or to the ritual. Recently I…

Creativity, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Negotiation, Peer Coaching, Reflective Practice

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Picture: Derek Gavey / Creative Commons A man walks into a bar …… I have to work quickly now because I can visualise readers reaching for the delete button. That’s because my six words have quickly taken you to an already constructed narrative. Before hitting delete there was probably a sigh; an eye roll and…

Developing the Field, Europe, Future of mediation, Germany, Growth of the Field (Challenges, New Sectors, etc.), Mediation and Society, Mediation Outcomes, Neutrality, Philosophy, Policy, Public Policy, Reflective Practice, Scotland, The role of the mediator, Ukraine, Uncategorized, Understanding mediation

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At a recent excellent conference hosted by Professor Ulla Glaesser at Viadrina University in Frankfurt (Oder), one of the workshop sessions focussed on the extent to which mediators can or should disclose or express their views when engaged in politically-related mediation work – or more generally. What a fascinating conversation we had. It was no…

Communication, Creativity, Developing the Field, Dialogue, Mediation Practice, Reflective Practice, Training, Transformation

(Bond & Bond Mediation / University of Wildau )/ /1 Comment

I would like to begin this blog with a big thank you to Prof. Dr. Ulla Glässer and the European Viadrina University of Frankfurt an der Oder in Germany (the “other” Frankfurt, the one on the German-Polish border). Thank you for the Mediation Moves international workshop and conference, which took place the first weekend of…