by Kayla Hellal | Apr 5, 2022 | Blog
Book by Oliver Burkeman Review by Jennifer Sullivan One doesn’t so much read Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, as experience its clarifying power. While booksellers may shelve it alongside the self-help books intended to teach mere...
by Kayla Hellal | Mar 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
What have we learned in the past two years of mediating online? By Catherine Conner and Katherine Miller As we moved mediation online in the early days of the pandemic, many of us believed that we would return to in-person sessions within a few weeks or months....
by Kayla Hellal | Mar 14, 2022 | Blog, Media Review
Review by Laurie Phuong Ertley Summer of Soul (Searchlight pictures, 2021) is a riveting documentary about Black joy, Black power, and Black music. You might wonder how something so massive as a music festival headlined by the likes of BB King, Stevie Wonder, and...
by Kayla Hellal | Jan 31, 2022 | Blog
We have five fabulous members of our team who will be working on a variety of projects with the Center for Understanding in Conflict from January to April 2022. Meah GilliamVideo Production Based in Aurora, Colorado Hello everyone! My name is Meah Gilliam and I’ll be...
by Kayla Hellal | Jan 31, 2022 | Blog
By Catherine Conner and Melanie Rowen You may have left your Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) trainings motivated to add Consensual Dispute Resolution (CDR) to your mix of work—or perhaps even inspired to start your own ADR/CDR practice—but not sure where to begin...
by Kayla Hellal | Jan 4, 2022 | Blog
By Gary Friedman and Katherine Miller There is no such thing as objectivity, and it is impossible to relate to another human being without the filter of our own subjective experiences. When working with people in conflict, what if we lean into this truth instead of...
by Kayla Hellal | Jan 4, 2022 | Blog, Media Review
Review by Heba Nimr bell hooks died last month. I first encountered her work in the1980s, through her book Feminist Theory from margin to center. “To be in the margin is to be part of the whole, but outside the main body” is the opening...
by Kayla Hellal | Nov 1, 2021 | Blog
By Gary Friedman As human beings, our experiences shape how we understand not only our own contexts, but those of the people we engage with. Accessing self is an oft ignored central skill in conflict resolution, one that expands our repertoire of how to help people we...
by Kayla Hellal | Oct 18, 2021 | Blog
Catherine Conner and Katherine Miller We all come into a conflict with our own stories, whether we are the parties, a mediator, or another professional. The parties each have their own story about themselves, each other and the conflict. And as they begin, the...
by Kayla Hellal | Aug 12, 2021 | Blog
By Antoinette Delruelle, attorney and mediator with the New York Legal Assistance Group. Before becoming a mediator, I represented victims of domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence (IPV[1]) in family cases and divorces for nearly two decades for the New...
