Category: About Mediation

Rethinking Resistance: A Nervous System Lens for Mediators
July 3, 2025Abstract: This article invites mediators to rethink client resistance not as defiance, but as a natural response to stress or...
By Jessica Hawkins
An Invitation to Apply the George Costanza âDo the Oppositeâ Mediator Approach
July 3, 2025GEORGE: âMy life has turned out the opposite of everything I wanted it to be. Every instinct I have had...
By Greg Rooney
Slowing Down: How Dubai Taught Me About Implicit Bias in Mediation
July 1, 2025Reflections 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
June 27, 2025In a recent mediation course, we took some time to consider the evolution of mediation. Have some aspects of the...
By John Potter
UTP â The 3 Blocks Method
June 24, 2025Mediation 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
June 24, 2025INTRODUCTION 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
June 23, 2025In 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
June 23, 2025Abstract 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
June 20, 2025In 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 â Help Shape the Future of Dispute Resolution
June 17, 2025Mediate.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
June 15, 2025Summary: This eBook, "The Mediatorâs Mind," by Bruce A. Edwards, explores the importance of a specific mindset for successful mediation. Edwards defines...
By Bruce Edwards
Mediate.com AI Podcasts
June 15, 2025Check 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
June 14, 2025Most people donât 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
June 13, 2025Summary 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
June 4, 2025Summary 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
June 4, 2025Both 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
June 3, 2025Starts June 4 Hosted by Mediate.com | First Wednesday of Every Month 9â10am Pacific | Live + Recorded Access for...
By Colin Rule, Clare Fowler, Jim Melamed
When AI Comes to the Table: How Tech Tools Will Change ADR
June 2, 2025Artificial intelligence (AI) has arrived â and itâs 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!
May 26, 2025For 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”Â
May 26, 2025If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there. (Lewis Carroll) This paraphrasing of Alice in Wonderlandâs conversation between...
By Harold Coleman
Using Images to Enhance Your Mediation Practice â Part I
May 22, 2025Everyone is familiar with that old adage: âa picture is worth 1000 words.â 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
May 20, 2025In depth interviews with leading thinkers focused on how Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) tools and techniques can help courts and...
By Colin Rule
Opening âMindfullyâ – Counsel Considerations
May 19, 2025This 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
May 19, 2025ICODR (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
May 19, 2025This 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
May 16, 2025I got the opportunity to revisit with Larry Anthony, JD, following our attendance at the Spring Conference of the ABAâs Dispute Resolution Section and...
By Mac-Arthur Pierre-Louis
Transforming the Judiciary: ODR and the Future of Court Systems In Africa-Lagos
May 16, 2025Introduction Africa, the second-largest and most populous continent after Asia, spans approximately one-fifth of the Earthâs total land surface. Home...
By Morenike Obi-Farinde
Opening “Mindfully” – Mediator MethodsÂ
May 13, 2025This 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
May 12, 2025Mediate.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 Donât Learn Through Experience, We Learn from Reflecting on Experience.
May 12, 2025By Michael Lang, Colin Bourne, Beibhinn Byrne and Nancy Radford This article originally appeared in Issue 11 of Mediation Matters!,...
By Michael Lang