ONGOING COURSE: Mediation Through a Trauma Informed Lens. A BRDGES video on violence against women and children.
Biases are unfair personal opinions that influence one’s judgment, whether explicit (conscious) or implicit (unconscious). They impact the information one hears and considers as well as how one interprets that information. Left unchecked, biases impair one’s ability to think critically, and can prevent critical thinking altogether. This course will explain why and how self-awareness is […]
In this two-hour course, you will learn important lessons mediators can learn from the conflicts we are experiencing regarding the pandemic, racism, politics, and policing? How we have handled them — personally, relationally, professionally, organizationally, socially, economically, and politically, and how might we have handled them better? How do we conduct meaningful discussions of highly […]
Through questions, it is possible to discover, in the thick of discord, how to free ourselves from its all-consuming grip, how to gain insight into what got us stuck, transform the ways we interact with our opponents, turn criticisms and complaints into openings for improvement, and evolve to higher levels of skill in conflict resolution. […]