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Slowing Down: How Dubai Taught Me About Implicit Bias in Mediation author.

Slowing Down: How Dubai Taught Me About Implicit Bias in Mediation

Reflections on time, presence, and the unspoken assumptions mediators bring into the room Before moving to Dubai, I thought I...

By Julie Cobalt
Mediation in 2025: Overcoming Awkwardness and Embracing Receptiveness author.

Mediation in 2025: Overcoming Awkwardness and Embracing Receptiveness

In a recent mediation course, we took some time to consider the evolution of mediation. Have some aspects of the...

By John Potter
UTP – The 3 Blocks Method author.

UTP – The 3 Blocks Method

Mediation is recognized as a structured process. However, how a mediation unfolds depends on the specific facts and circumstances of...

By Sarathi Susheela
Navigating the Vaccination Impasse: Mediating Childhood Vaccination Disputes in Co-Parenting Relationships author.

Navigating the Vaccination Impasse: Mediating Childhood Vaccination Disputes in Co-Parenting Relationships

INTRODUCTION Few topics in family mediation have become as divisive as childhood vaccinations for diseases like measles and polio. As...

By Wendy Morgan
Court ODR Podcast: Unrepresented Parties, Family Disputes & ODR with Jim Williams, Retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, Family Division author.

Court ODR Podcast: Unrepresented Parties, Family Disputes & ODR with Jim Williams, Retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, Family Division

In this episode, Colin interviews the Honorable R. James (Jim) Williams, retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia,...

By Colin Rule
Responsible Realism About Artificial Intelligence: How AI is Shaping Legal and Dispute Resolution Practice, Education & Scholarship author.

Responsible Realism About Artificial Intelligence: How AI is Shaping Legal and Dispute Resolution Practice, Education & Scholarship

Abstract This article synthesizes the views of legal scholars examining how generative artificial intelligence (AI) is affecting legal and dispute...

By John Lande
Court ODR Podcast: Medical Debt ODR, with Dana Schmidt, Manager of Tennessee Program author.

Court ODR Podcast: Medical Debt ODR, with Dana Schmidt, Manager of Tennessee Program

In this episode, Colin interviews Dana Schmidt, who manages the mediation programs at the Tennessee Supreme Court. Dana oversees an...

By Colin Rule
The Mediate.com Mentor Program – Help Shape the Future of Dispute Resolution author.

The Mediate.com Mentor Program – Help Shape the Future of Dispute Resolution

Mediate.com is looking for experienced dispute resolution professionals who are interested in guiding the next generation of mediators, ombuds and conflict...

By Clare Fowler, Michael Lang, Jim Melamed
The Mediator’s Mind: A Mental Model for Mediation Success – eBook and AI Podcast author.

The Mediator’s Mind: A Mental Model for Mediation Success – eBook and AI Podcast

Summary: This eBook, "The Mediator’s Mind," by Bruce A. Edwards, explores the importance of a specific mindset for successful mediation. Edwards defines...

By Bruce Edwards
Mediate.com AI Podcasts author.

Mediate.com AI Podcasts

Check out ALL AI generated podcasts! This is a new and entertaining way to easily listen to valuable content!  We...

By Jim Melamed, Clare Fowler
When They Cry in Mediation: Holding Space Without Fixing author.

When They Cry in Mediation: Holding Space Without Fixing

Most people don’t expect tears in mediation. They expect tension. Arguments. Maybe cold silence. But not the trembling kind of...

By Rachel Graycliff
The Distinctions Between Couples Mediation and Couples Therapy author.

The Distinctions Between Couples Mediation and Couples Therapy

Summary This article distinguishes between couples mediation and couples therapy, highlighting their unique objectives and methodologies. Couples mediation focuses on...

By Dr. Nadia Delshad
AI and Community Mediation author.

AI and Community Mediation

Summary of AI and Community Mediation: Views from Six Experts (May 2025) John B. Stephens, Ph.D. I am glad to...

By John B. Stephens
Mediation Stories – Zumba the Hero author.

Mediation Stories – Zumba the Hero

Both parties insisted that the dispute between them be mediated by: a Telugu-speaking mediator, a pet-loving mediator, and (more specifically,...

By Sarathi Susheela
Dive Into AI:  Mediate.com’s Monthly AI Training Series Starts June 4 author.

Dive Into AI: Mediate.com’s Monthly AI Training Series Starts June 4

Starts June 4 Hosted by Mediate.com | First Wednesday of Every Month 9–10am Pacific | Live + Recorded Access for...

By Colin Rule, Clare Fowler, Jim Melamed
When AI Comes to the Table: How Tech Tools Will Change ADR author.

When AI Comes to the Table: How Tech Tools Will Change ADR

Artificial intelligence (AI) has arrived – and it’s not just here to win at chess, write mediocre love poems, or...

By John Lande
Mediate’s Statewide Banners Expand the Geography of Your Online Mediation Practice! author.

Mediate’s Statewide Banners Expand the Geography of Your Online Mediation Practice!

For your best mediation advertising coverage, get a Mediate.com Statewide Banner! When a visitor comes to Mediate.com, we are able...

By Clare Fowler, Colin Rule, Jim Melamed
“Purposeful Expectations”  author.

“Purposeful Expectations” 

If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there. (Lewis Carroll) This paraphrasing of Alice in Wonderland’s conversation between...

By Harold Coleman
Using Images to Enhance Your Mediation Practice – Part I author.

Using Images to Enhance Your Mediation Practice – Part I

Everyone is familiar with that old adage: “a picture is worth 1000 words.”  According to the App Perplexity: The phrase...

By Shel Stark
The Court ODR Podcast with Colin Rule Episode #1: Change Your Language – Interview with Katherine Alteneder Mills author.

The Court ODR Podcast with Colin Rule Episode #1: Change Your Language – Interview with Katherine Alteneder Mills

In depth interviews with leading thinkers focused on how Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) tools and techniques can help courts and...

By Colin Rule
Opening “Mindfully” –  Counsel Considerations author.

Opening “Mindfully” – Counsel Considerations

This post addresses the opening phase of the mediation process. The mediation begins with opening presentations, otherwise known as "opening...

By Harold Coleman
ICODR Standards for AI in ODR Focus on Ethical and Practical Considerations for Using AI in Dispute Resolution Processes author.

ICODR Standards for AI in ODR Focus on Ethical and Practical Considerations for Using AI in Dispute Resolution Processes

ICODR (International Council for Online Dispute Resolution) standards for AI in ODR (Online Dispute Resolution) focus on ethical and practical...

By Colin Rule
Inside the Mediation Room: Guest Bill Eddy author.

Inside the Mediation Room: Guest Bill Eddy

This is the second episode of Michael and Karen Aurit's video podcast "Inside The Mediation Room," devoted to hearing stories...

By Bill Eddy, Michael Aurit, Karen Aurit
LMI Podcast 314: The Islamic Approach to Dispute Resolution, With Larry Anthony of IAMS.LLC author.

LMI Podcast 314: The Islamic Approach to Dispute Resolution, With Larry Anthony of IAMS.LLC

I got the opportunity to revisit with Larry Anthony, JD, following our attendance at the Spring Conference of the ABA’s Dispute Resolution Section and...

By Mac-Arthur Pierre-Louis
Transforming the Judiciary: ODR and the Future of Court Systems In Africa-Lagos author.

Transforming the Judiciary: ODR and the Future of Court Systems In Africa-Lagos

Introduction Africa, the second-largest and most populous continent after Asia, spans approximately one-fifth of the Earth’s total land surface. Home...

By Morenike Obi-Farinde
Opening “Mindfully” – Mediator Methods  author.

Opening “Mindfully” – Mediator Methods 

This post addresses the opening phase of the mediation process. The mediation begins with opening presentations, otherwise known as "opening...

By Harold Coleman
Guidelines for the Submission of Articles to Mediate.com author.

Guidelines for the Submission of Articles to Mediate.com

Mediate.com welcomes high quality articles on mediation and dispute resolution for publication on our web site. Authors are encouraged to submit...

By Clare Fowler, Jim Melamed, Colin Rule
We Don’t Learn Through Experience, We Learn from Reflecting on Experience. author.

We Don’t Learn Through Experience, We Learn from Reflecting on Experience.

By Michael Lang, Colin Bourne, Beibhinn Byrne and Nancy Radford This article originally appeared in Issue 11 of Mediation Matters!,...

By Michael Lang
Make Money Mediating #533: John Lande’s New Tool to Transform Your Mediation Practice (Part 2) author.

Make Money Mediating #533: John Lande’s New Tool to Transform Your Mediation Practice (Part 2)

In part two of a special two-part series, Susan continues her conversation with Professor John Lande about RPS Coach, his...

By John Lande, Susan Guthrie
Purposeful Preparation: The 10 Essential Mediator Skills author.

Purposeful Preparation: The 10 Essential Mediator Skills

Mediation Mind Shifts are the critical, incremental shifts in thinking that must occur to move people embroiled in conflict from...

By Harold Coleman

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