I’m doing a webinar next week (October 22) for Mediate BC. It’s all about enlisting social media as a path to finding balance and success in our digital age. It’s oriented to mediators, yet I think it’ll have applicability for facilitators, of all sorts. During the webinar, I’ll take you on a journey; from […]
Shopping for Dispute Resolution Services in the Year 2025
May 27, 2013 by · Leave a Comment
We’re amok in information. We know it. We feel it. “90% of data in the world today has been created in the last two years.” (source: IBM) Yet, with intention and considerable effort, you can curate and make sense of information, connect conversations in the data “stream”, and get a feel for what lies ahead. […]
Place-based Conflict Management
April 22, 2013 by · Leave a Comment
In our global village world, we are more likely to buy into ideas and approaches developed somewhere else, in a different place. This is certainly true in the conflict management arena; whether its interest-based negotiation, more prisons, or Online Dispute Resolution (ODR). No matter if good or bad, these other ways can distract us from […]
e-Training Conflict Management skills: How to keep it interactive and experiential?
April 10, 2013 by · Leave a Comment
I got much of my classroom-based conflict management training through the Justice Institute of BC (JIBC), over a decade ago. I really enjoyed it. It was immediate, face-to-face, conversational, with lots of role-playing and discussion. Interactive and experiential. Since then, I, and many others, have wrestled with how to generate a similarly satisfying experience, online. […]
