By Mary Banham-Hall, LLB FMCA Mediator, Focus Mediation Professional Associations are increasingly helping their members resolve time-consuming and unpleasant complaints using mediators to do this…
By David Liddle, Founder and CEO of The TCM Group Binary, reductive, irrational, rigid, dogmatic, intransigent, combative, destructive, dysfunctional, aggressive, childish, dismissive. Doing my utmost…
By Anna Shields, Director and Co-founder, Consensio I’ve recently discovered a new podcast entitled ‘Heavyweight’, and I’m hooked! The show is hosted by Jonathan Goldstein…
By Peter Causton, Director, ProMediate (UK) Limited One question facing employers trying to resolve employment claims, and indeed general civil claims, is “should we include…
By Susanne Schuler, Mediator and Director of Training and Consultancy, CEDR (www.cedr.com) Current conflicts around the world, such as those in Syria, Crimea and Yemen,…
ADR ODR International Are negotiation skills important to have? Quite simply, we negotiate every day without even realising it. It could be with our partners,…
Independent Mediators is home to a group of Europe’s leading full-time civil and commercial mediators, nationally and internationally recognised for their work. Independent Mediators (IM)…
By Tania Coke, Senior Mediation Consultant at Consensio In Japan, interpersonal relations are governed by the notion of “wa”. According to this philosophy, individuals are…
By Roger Levitt Where to start!? There are so many examples around the world at present of the negative, confrontational rhetoric which is more divisive…