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Posted By Greg Rooney 22-02-2024 03:47 PM
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I agree Archie that academia has lost interest in the theory of what makes a good mediator. You really have to go back to 1989 to work of Kressel and Pruit and of Carnevale, Lim and McLaughlin to see any real in depth action on this issue. Kressel and Pruit maintained that how mediators make decisions ...
Posted By Greg Rooney 21-02-2024 12:12 PM
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AI is really just harvesting past data to inform present decision-making. It's in that context that I was critiquing Archie's Prof Lande's checklists, Christopher Moore's 'Circle of Conflict' linking causes to interventions through the many papers with lists of tips and tricks that pass for mediation ...
Posted By Greg Rooney 18-02-2024 06:28 PM
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Wow Archie. How will an AI mediator bot work? Will it be something parties buy off the shelf at the post office like you can currently buy do-it-yourself wills? AI is essentially an algorithm that uses data to produce other data. One of the biggest issues is transparency about who has trained the ...
Posted By Greg Rooney 14-02-2024 09:37 PM
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Thank you Archie for introducing these two papers to the Resolution Institute Community. I have always thought that the RI Members Connect Portal would be a good vehicle for RI Practitioners to exchange thoughts and instigate debates on mediation 'theory to practice' issues. These two papers certainly ...
Posted By Greg Rooney 17-12-2023 08:10 AM
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Some end of year reflections on negotiation/mediation theory Why is it okay to tell lies, manipulate and deceive when negotiating. It's called Goodhart's Law. The basic principle in economics and science that targets distort outcomes because people game them to achieve the target. The pressure to meet ...
Posted By Greg Rooney 04-10-2023 12:42 PM
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To Be or Not to Be Human - That is the Question for Mediators Our shared humanity is the mediator's most powerful asset. Why shield it with the mask of the expert dispute resolver, lawyer, retired judge, neutral or psychologist. This is the link to a paper presented by Margaret Ross and Greg ...
Posted By Greg Rooney 26-07-2023 11:19 AM
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Margaret Ross and I have recently returned from France and Tuscany where, with 10 mediators from Australia, New Zealand, USA and Poland, we undertook a three-day Humanistic Mediation workshop with the 89 year old French mediator Jacqueline Morineau. Jacqueline established mediation in France in 1984 ...
Posted By Greg Rooney 29-03-2023 04:58 PM
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The University of South Australia has put in digital form eight mediation role-plays of John Haynes demonstrating his mediation style. An excellent teaching resource for mediation trainers. They can be purchased individually or as a group. They include: Separating Married Couple - Surfacing Domestic ...
Posted By Greg Rooney 15-02-2023 08:28 PM
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The Tuscany Mediation Retreat is from the 17 to 24 June 2023 ------------------------------ Greg Rooney Mediator Mediator Mount George SA 61405612789 ------------------------------
Posted By Greg Rooney 15-02-2023 03:58 PM
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Humanistic Mediation Workshop - 5 to 7 June 2023, France Margaret Ross and I are organising a three-day humanistic mediation workshop to be conducted by the noted French mediator Jacqueline Morineau. It will be held between the 5th and 7th of June 2023 on her farm about one hour's drive outside of ...
Posted By Greg Rooney 31-01-2023 05:06 PM
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Hi Everyone I feel we are having one of those frustrating definitional debates. How do you define empowerment and what is good empowerment and what is bad empowerment? If we start with first principles, then we start with the proposition that people stuck in intransient conflict are, by definition, ...
Posted By Greg Rooney 29-01-2023 01:22 PM
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Australian author and academic Stephanie Charlesworth who worked with John Haynes in the 1990s said of him: 'John Haynes maintains that the professional task of the mediator is to focus on the conversation between the parties. He explores the client's world through their own eyes, as far as it is relevant ...
Posted By Greg Rooney 26-01-2023 10:48 AM
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Thanks, Nina, for your commentary and reflections. It's a great resource to engender thoughtful discussions and analysis of what mediation is all about. It certainly makes you think whether you agree or disagree with this approach. This is my take on the video: I view this video through the lens of ...
Posted By Greg Rooney 25-01-2023 02:34 PM
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Observe John Haynes' mediation style in this Utube video as he works with Michael and Debbie to help them move forward from their current impasse. I suggest you view his approach from the perspective of flow - how Haynes keeps the flow going and his use of a sidestep to an 'adjacent possible' where ...
Posted By Greg Rooney 16-12-2022 07:22 AM
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Any definition of mediation must contain the mediator as its central character for without that mediator there is no mediation. Neutrality is therefore a superfluous concept. It is in the intake session that the mediator co-creates mediation with the parties - it is where the persona of the mediator ...
Posted By Greg Rooney 01-12-2022 10:40 AM
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Just on the concept of 'Biases', Daniel Kahneman has done a great disservice to this important issue by using a very loaded word like bias (the same with 'Noise') to describe what is our natural ability to make quick decisions with limited information. We can ignore the gorilla (and the colour of the ...
Posted By Greg Rooney 11-11-2022 10:58 AM
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Mediate.com has just published my two-part series reflecting on the human aspect of mediation Part 1 - Why I Argue for Mediation to Move Beyond the Dehumanised Legal Mediation Model – Download here - Why I argue for Mediation to move beyond the dehumanised legal mediation model – Part I - Mediate.com ...
Posted By Greg Rooney 29-07-2022 11:00 AM
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There is much debate about the legal professions struggle with how to engage with the mediation product. Its first reaction, like all apex predators, is to try and colonise the new kid on the block and make it into an image of itself with an adversarial culture approach dominating the legalised mediation ...
Posted By Greg Rooney 20-06-2022 06:18 PM
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Thank you Amber, David and Peter for your comments One of the reasons for producing the video was to demonstrate how you can use a facilitative joint session approach to mediate a hard positional bargaining commercial dispute where the parties are stuck far apart. The problem with the legal profession ...
Posted By Greg Rooney 16-06-2022 09:35 PM
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Thanks Peter for your comments and reflections. You have to take the parties as you find them not where you would like them to be. You start at that point and work forward step-by-step. It's all about the flow and the dance. Most of the work was done in the two intake sessions where I found each sides ...