The Mediate.com Weekly

June 17, 2014 #534 – Membership information

In This Issue:

Competition, Collaboration and Integrity at the World Cup • How to Encourage Perspective-Taking • Post-Divorce Blues: Unresolved Issues and New Problems Unsettle Divorced Spouses • Meditation Enhances Mediation: A Six Sigma Perspective • Today’s Mediation News • Job Postings • Events Calendar • Blogs

Gender and Culture in Mediation – Video
Nina Meierding
Nina explains how to put theory into practice regarding studies of gender and culture in mediation. She describes being sensitive and respectful of diverse thought processes and communication methods in mediation.

Humor, Rapport and Experience – Video
Sid Lezak
Sid describes how he uses humor to lighten the mood of parties coming in and help them focus on what is in their best interests. He also talks about his vast experience and how his responses can become somewhat automatic.

Problem Solving vs. Transformative Mediation – Video
Chris Moore
Chris talks about mediators who are problem solvers and those who attempt to transform the relationships and moral views of the parties.  Moore’s position is somewhere in the middle.

Mediation Skillset is Essential for our Survival – Video
Kenneth Cloke
Ken discusses the significance of mediation and how the world needs to learn these skills in order for us to survive as a species.

Mediation Field Combined Law, Psychology and Social Work – Video
Jay Folberg
Jay describes early the beginnings of family mediation when he, as a lawyer, collaborated with psychologists and social workers and they learned from each other.

• Our Best Negotiators are Humble People . . .
  by Nadja Alexander
• Anger Management
  by Phyllis Pollack
• Arbitration as a Means of Avoiding Class Actions
  by Peter Phillips
• Patent Litigation
  by Joe Markowitz
• The Real Bergdahl Error
  by Abraham Miller
• The Hearty Handshake, and Other Lessons From My Father
  by Jan Frankel Schau
• Confidentiality Revisited
  by Michael Carbone
• Winks, Nods, and Corporate Culture
  by Maria Simpson

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• Mediation speeds Franklin County property-tax challenges
  A mediation program designed to handle routine property-value challenges has been so successful that Franklin County officials say it could clear up a backlog of sometimes-years-old complaints by early next year. The program, the first of its kind in the state, allows homeowners to challenge the value that the auditor’s office sets for their property without having to go through the more traditional, formal hearing process before the county’s board of revision. Most of the cases are decided over the phone in a conference call with the property owner, a representative of the auditor’s office and an independent, third-party mediator.
• Brooklyn judge asked to discard his own mediator
  The Brooklyn judge deciding whether to disqualify certain scorers who evaluated proposals to purchase Long Island College Hospital is being asked to discard one of his own mediators.
• Airport board ‘can mediate in good faith’ on ex-director’s discrimination complaint
  The director of the Charleston County Aviation Authority said mediation is a possibility in the gender discrimination complaint filed by the former director of the county’s three airports. “We can certainly mediate in good faith,” said Airports Director Paul Campbell. “We want something that allows us to run the airport in a cost-effective manner.” The resolution to the nearly year-old dispute with ex-airports Director Sue Stevens does not have to involve money entirely, Aviation Authority Chairman Andy Savage added. He did not elaborate.
• Court Must Mediate in Cases Involving Children
  New Iowa Legislature-mandated mediation guidelines for court cases involving children will take effect next month. If you have a dissolution of marriage or a domestic relations case involving children, you’ll be ordered to go through mediation to try and mediate the issues. Previously, mediation didn’t happen unless the parties involved in the case did it on their own. There will be a mediator roster provided to the parties and they will choose their own.” The mediator will then file a report saying whether it’s been successful or not. Statistically, it’s been proven that the parties in these cases are happier that they’re a part of the outcome as opposed to going to trial.

• New mediation date set for Hope Mills and builders of Hope Mills Lake dam
  A mediation date of July 9 was set Monday in a lawsuit filed by the town against the designers and builders of the failed Hope Mills Lake dam.  In a related matter, the judge said he would decide later on whether the town is required to release documents to Crowder Construction, one of the defendants in the case.  Morphis said Crowder wants emails and other communication regarding a settlement the town reached with Mosher Engineering, another of the defendants.  The town filed suit in October 2012 over the $14 million dam, which failed in June 2010. It seeks more than $10 million in repair costs.
• Norwegian Oil Industry Faces Mediation to Avoid Output Halt
  Norwegian oil workers and employers will start mediation talks tomorrow to bridge differences and avoid a strike that threatens to halt about 115,000 barrels of oil a day. The mediation deadline is set for midnight tomorrow and involves two unions that broke off wage talks last month over pensions, according to the parties involved. Talks frequently run beyond the deadline. “We naturally hope for a solution,” Sverre Simen Hov, a spokesman for the Norwegian Organization of Managers and Executives, said by phone on June 13. It’s “very difficult” to predict the outcome, he said.
• Mediation on rise in matrimonial cases
  The cost of a divorce or separation through mediation is typically 50 percent less and takes about half the time of a traditional court proceeding. Ultimately, 95 percent of such court cases end with a settlement anyway! Mediators discuss the benefits of mediation for many families. Read All News

• Mediation Center Executive Director – OR
• Mediator – IL
• Adjunct Mediation Instructor – TX
• Director of Labor Relations – NY
• HR Specialist – MO
• Juvenile Mediator – AZ
• Rule 31 Coordinator – TN
• Bankruptcy Mediation Specialist – FL
• University Ombudsman – VA
• Ombudsman Assistant – DC
• Mediation Office Assistant – OR
• Case Manager – OR
• EEO Specialist – IL
• Mediator, Investigator – CA
• Counselor/Mediator – AZ
• Director, Office of Conflict Resolution – MN
• Mediator – NY
• Chief of Service, Office of Ombudsman & Mediation Service – NY
• Circuit Court Mediator – FL
• Mediator – NV
• Mediation/Arbitration Specialist – MI
• Mediation Clinic Fellow – MA

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• June 18 – Boston, MA – Zealous Advocacy for the Unmarried Parent
• June 18-28 – San Marcos, TX – CTDRC 40-hour Basic Mediation Training
• June 18-19 – New York, NY – ACR-GNY Annual Meeting
• June 19-21 – Malibu, CA – Pepperdine’s Straus Institute Summer Professional Skills Program
• June 20 – Toronto, CAN – ADR Panels on Mediation and Arbitration
• June 20-21 – San Francisco, CA – Two Advanced ADR Trainings at Community Boards
• June 20-23 – Portland, OR – Basic 40-hour Mediation Training
• June 21-29 – San Francisco, CA – Ron’s Mediation Training at BASF
• June 23-27 – Colorado Springs, CO – Basic Mediation Training 40 hrs.
• June 25-27 – San Francisco & Palo Alto, CA – Online Dispute Resolution Forum ODR 2014
• June 26-27 – Greenbelt, MD – 2014 Annual Conference – Managing Conflict and Removing Barriers to Collaborative Decision-making
• July 1-4 – Madrid, ESP – World Mediation Summit
• July 10-16 – Philadelphia, PA – Divorce and Custody Mediator Training
• July 19-20 – Seattle, WA – APFM Advanced Training: Power Imbalance in Family Mediation
• July 21-25 – Denver, CO – Basic Mediation Training 40 hrs.
• July 29-August 1 – Newton, MA – Elder Decisions’ Elder /Adult Family Mediation Training
• August 4-9 – Malibu, CA – Mediating the Litigated Case 6 Day Program
• August 4-6 – Dallas, TX – Family Mediation with Dr. Nancy Ferrell
• August 11-13 – Chicago, IL – 2.5 Day Training in Elder Mediation
• August 18-22 – Los Angeles, CA – 30 Hour Basic Mediation Training
• August 18-22 – Chicago, IL – Divorce and Custody Mediation Training
• September 4-6 – Maynooth, Co. Kildare, IRE – International Mediation Conference

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