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Mediate.com Interview with Tony Piazza: “Lessons from 5,000 Mediations: Converting Dialectic Into Dialogue” author.

Mediate.com Interview with Tony Piazza: “Lessons from 5,000 Mediations: Converting Dialectic Into Dialogue”

This Mediate.com interview of Tony Piazza was recorded on July 29, 2026. Over the past 46 years, Tony has mediated...

By Antonio Piazza, Stephen Kotev
Optimizing Mediation – Table of Contents author.

Optimizing Mediation – Table of Contents

Participant Empowerment, AI andProblem-Solving Optimization in Mediation by Jim Melamed Co-Founder and 25-year CEO at Mediate.com INTRODUCTION About this “Book"...

By Jim Melamed
Practice Swimming Like Whales author.

Practice Swimming Like Whales

4⁴SRI® (4⁴ Structured Reflective Instrument) International Certificate Program Tzofnat Peleg-Baker, PhD with Certified 4⁴SRI® Practitioners PROFESSIONAL EXCELLENCE IS A PRACTICE...

By Tzofnat Peleg-Baker
Turns Out That RPS Coach Really Is Pretty Cool author.

Turns Out That RPS Coach Really Is Pretty Cool

When mediate.com recently created this homepage for RPS Coach, it seemed like a good time to reflect on my amazing...

By John Lande
Using RPS Coach to Create a Disability Real Practice System (DRPS) author.

Using RPS Coach to Create a Disability Real Practice System (DRPS)

This year, I have been celebrating my twentieth bipolar-versary by launching a number of different 20 Years Embracing Bipolar projects...

By Dan Berstein
Optimizing Mediation: About This Book author.

Optimizing Mediation: About This Book

by Jim Melamed Co-Founder and 25-year CEO at Mediate.com INTRODUCTION: ABOUT THIS BOOK What exactly is “a book” these days?...

By Jim Melamed
Optimizing Mediation:  Mediation & Optimization author.

Optimizing Mediation: Mediation & Optimization

Table of Contents Next Mediation & Optimization In any situation in which you are uncertain, consider: "What do I want...

By Jim Melamed
Optimizing Mediation: Mediation Myth Busters author.

Optimizing Mediation: Mediation Myth Busters

Table of Contents Next This “Myth Busters” article was written and issued in 2025 jointly by the American Arbitration Association...

By Jim Melamed
Immersive Mediation Program Trains Tomorrow’s Peacemakers author.

Immersive Mediation Program Trains Tomorrow’s Peacemakers

Cal State Long Beach students are getting into the thick of other peoples’ problems — and solving them — while...

By Andrew Edwards
Mediation in India: Enforceable Settlements Without Compulsory Compromise author.

Mediation in India: Enforceable Settlements Without Compulsory Compromise

In a Delhi family court, a marriage of seven years had already collapsed by the time the case reached the...

By Aftab Mohammad
Optimizing Mediation – About the Author author.

Optimizing Mediation – About the Author

Next Table of Contents Jim Melamed co-founded Mediate.com in 1996 with John Helie and served as CEO of Mediate.com through June 2020...

By Jim Melamed
Optimizing Mediation –  Acknowledgements author.

Optimizing Mediation – Acknowledgements

Next Table of Contents Acknowledgements First off, thanks to my parents. To my dad, now deceased at 93, for his...

By Jim Melamed
Optimizing Mediation –  A Fascinating Journey author.

Optimizing Mediation – A Fascinating Journey

Table of Contents Next OVERVIEW OF THE MEDIATION PROCES An Introduction to MediationA Fascinating Journey If we want to make...

By Jim Melamed
Background to Stephen Kotev’s July 29 Interview with Tony Piazza: “Lessons from 5,000 Mediations: Converting Dialectic Into Dialogue” author.

Background to Stephen Kotev’s July 29 Interview with Tony Piazza: “Lessons from 5,000 Mediations: Converting Dialectic Into Dialogue”

- Register for Free Tony Piazza Interview Here - For almost two decades, I’ve been fascinated by the Aikido concept...

By Stephen Kotev, Antonio Piazza
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
Advanced Workplace Mediation Training  author.

Advanced Workplace Mediation Training 

with Dr. Clare Fowler of Mediate.com - October 2 and 9 via Zoom The Lodestar Dispute Resolution Center at ASU Law has...

By Clare Fowler
From Observation to Innovation: A Year Inside the AAA–Suffolk Online Dispute Resolution Innovation Clinic author.

From Observation to Innovation: A Year Inside the AAA–Suffolk Online Dispute Resolution Innovation Clinic

Introduction In August 2025, eight Suffolk Law School students became the inaugural participants in the AAA–Suffolk Online Dispute Resolution (ODR)...

By Maya Markovich
Designing the Future of ODR: The ‘Centaur System’ and Role of Humans in the AI Era author.

Designing the Future of ODR: The ‘Centaur System’ and Role of Humans in the AI Era

This session from the 2026 Global ODR Forum at Harvard addresses issues of "Designing the Future of ODR: The Role...

By John Lande, Morgan Tregenza, Renee Jackson, Jim Melamed
Why the Best Business Relationships Have Nothing to Do with Business with Philip Fornaro author.

Why the Best Business Relationships Have Nothing to Do with Business with Philip Fornaro

The best business relationships have nothing to do with business. Not at the start, not in the room, not over...

By Susan Guthrie
Navigating Modern Dispute Resolution: A Review of John Lande’s RPS Coach for Parties and Aspiring Professionals author.

Navigating Modern Dispute Resolution: A Review of John Lande’s RPS Coach for Parties and Aspiring Professionals

The Real Practice Systems Negotiation and Mediation Coach (RPS Coach) is an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to help mediators, lawyers,...

By Jim Melamed, John Lande
Consideration of AFCC and ICODR Standards for the Use of AI in Family Mediation author.

Consideration of AFCC and ICODR Standards for the Use of AI in Family Mediation

The landscape of dispute resolution has undergone a profound transformation, driven by technological advancements that were significantly accelerated by the...

By Jim Melamed, Colin Rule
When the Conflict Resolution Professional Becomes the Displaced Tenant author.

When the Conflict Resolution Professional Becomes the Displaced Tenant

Reflections on conflict, psychological safety, and the limits of professional neutrality There was a period in my life when I...

By Sarabjeet Wadhwa
Addressing Sacred Values in Conflict Engagement author.

Addressing Sacred Values in Conflict Engagement

Some conflicts are not about what people want. They are about what people believe must never be given up. These...

By Bart Patton, John Potter
Making Dispute Resolution Accessible – ODR Forum 2026 (video) author.

Making Dispute Resolution Accessible – ODR Forum 2026 (video)

"Making Dispute Resolution Accessible" from the 2026 ODR Forum at Harvard University, presented by Jennifer Shack, Director of Research at...

By Jennifer Shack
Colin Rule Documentary Interview author.

Colin Rule Documentary Interview

This is the video recording of Colin Rule, CEO of Mediate.com and ODR.com, for the "Can ODR Change the World...

By Colin Rule, Mac-Arthur Pierre-Louis
Navigating the Fog of Indirect Conflict: Practical Tools for Clarity and Prevention author.

Navigating the Fog of Indirect Conflict: Practical Tools for Clarity and Prevention

Being a conflict resolution specialist is, at least in my experience, a 24‑hour job. At first, people don’t fully understand...

By Alessandra Sgubini
Guidance for AI Usage – from the ODR Forum 2026 author.

Guidance for AI Usage – from the ODR Forum 2026

This session from the 2026 Global ODR Forum is entited "Applying ODR Standards: Guidance for AI Usage for Human Third...

By Daniel Rainey, Leah Wing
Hired Before Hello: How Legal and DR Professionals Use Podcasting to Win Clients with Dennis Meador author.

Hired Before Hello: How Legal and DR Professionals Use Podcasting to Win Clients with Dennis Meador

Imagine a potential client calling your office for a consultation, and before you can even finish saying hello, they say,...

By Susan Guthrie
What Are We Learning About the Effects of AI in Mediation – 3 Tips for Protecting Our Parties author.

What Are We Learning About the Effects of AI in Mediation – 3 Tips for Protecting Our Parties

https://youtu.be/jhz_QnI2ZNk?si=56hZZbugqSaoJZqq Dr. Clare Fowler, Exec VP at ODR.com‍ ‍and Mediate.com, here presents on: "What Are We Learning About the Effects...

By Clare Fowler
Can Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) Change the World? (film review) author.

Can Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) Change the World? (film review)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwiLG0hqrpU&t=2s Bill Glover was kind enough to do a review of the new documentary film on online mediation. Here's that...

By Mac-Arthur Pierre-Louis

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