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Section Tri-Chairs

Emily Gould, Esq. (2008-2010)

Emily J. Gould, Esq.
Empatia Resolutions
80 College Street , Suite 1
Montpelier, VT 05602
Office: 802 - 223 -1735
Cell: 802 -272 - 8386
Fax: 802 - 318 - 4391
EmpatiaResolutions.com

Emily Gould brings 25 years combined experience as a coach, mediator, facilitator, and attorney to her presentations on transforming conflict. A former criminal prosecutor and general counsel, she has a mediation, coaching and training practice in Montpelier, VT, utilizing Empathic Communication™ , and Empathic Mediation, based on Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent CommunicationSM the latest research on neurobiology and contemporary spirituality. Gould is a frequent presenter at conferences for professional organizations in North America and offers coaching and training by phone to mediators, attorneys and people dealing with conflict. Her approach generates solutions by demonstrating how to recognize the common human needs and values that underlie the positions and strategies presented by parties in conflict

Lili Zohar, JD, LLM, RYT (2009-2011)

Denver, Colorado
lili@lilizohar.com
www.lilizohar.com
303 941 4342

Lili Zohar, JD, (OSU College of Law, Order of the Coif, 1983) LLM, (Yale, 1984) is an attorney/mediator who since 1995 has practiced family, civil, and community mediation in Denver, Colorado. In addition to her private dispute resolution practice, she has worked with the Colorado Judicial Office of Dispute Resolution, the EEOC, the Metro Denver Associations of Realtors. She currently has a private practice in family, business and community mediation and for the Redress Program of the United States Postal Service Office, which utilizes the transformative mediation model. For many years, Lili has been bringing together the worlds of conflict resolution and spirituality. In 2007, Lili presented workshops on bringing Spiritual Awareness and Intention into dispute resolution offering workshops in Non-Dual Mediation, Paradox in Mediation, From Reactivity to Responsiveness and Mediator Mindfulness and Awareness at the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) and the Association of Conflict Resolution (ACR) annual conferences (2007-2009).  She has been the co-facilitator/chair of the Third-Fifth Annual Rocky Mountain Retreats.  and has taught yoga at the ACR Annual Conferences and at the Summer Learning Forum of the Harvard Negotiation Insight Initiative. A long time student of the world’s great spiritual traditions, Lili is a graduate and is engaged in post-graduate studies in Integrative Kabbalistic Healing with Jason Shulman, www.kabbalah.org.   A thirty year practitioner of yoga and Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT), Lili currently teaches yoga and meditation throughout metro Denver.  Lili's vision as Tri-Chair of the Spirituality Section of ACR is to make programs and presentations available to all the members of ACR which lead to a deeper understanding of the self and the increased joy that being present and aware in each moment can bring.
 

Dai Kato (2009 - 2011)

Steamboat Springs, CO 

dicekato@gmail.com

215-609-8670

Dai Kato is an ADR researcher, mediator, and global project manager in the U.S. and Japan. Dai was born in the old Japanese Samurai town of Nagoya, where Toyota and many other multi-national companies were founded. He grew up in a Japanese Shinto and Zen Buddhist family. He started a Zazen meditation at the age of seven with his grandmother at Eihei-ji Soto Zen head monastery in Japan. After eight years of business and non-profit experiences in Tokyo, he moved to the U.S. to acquire his master's degree in Conflict Facilitation and Organizational Change from the Process Work Institute Graduate School in Portland, OR. In 2007, Dai represented former vice-president Al Gore's Live Earth project for Japan. His inter-cultural conflict facilitation skill as a project representative helped to make this multi-national nine-country event successful. He translated the Harvard Negotiation Program to be used in executive trainings at the Japanese offices of a Global Fortune 500 company. In 2008, he conducted an international research project "The Research of Conflict Resolution Systems in the Service Industry" in Washington, D.C., New York, Boston and Florida on behalf of the Japanese Government. Currently, he works as an Assistant Sustainability Specialist for the Executive Vice President at Colorado Mountain College and teaches conflict resolution and Japanese as an adjunct professor.

Immediate Past Tri-Chair

Dave Gould Q.C., C.Med, (2008-2009)

Calgary, Alberta
T2R 1M1
Phone: 1.403.233.2209
Fax: 1.403.233.7446
Email: dgould@certus-strategies.com

David is a recognized leader in the design of conflict prevention and conflict management processes, in particular, their integration with regulatory requirements for public and stakeholder engagement. David combines an extensive legal background with proven mediation capabilities and conflict management design experience to assist industry and government organizations to resolve multi-party disputes.

David was the lead consultant for the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board and the National Energy Board Appropriate Disputes Resolution programs.