Ike Lasater draws upon a wealth of experience in his approach to needs-based mediation, facilitation and trainings. This experience includes trying lawsuits for twenty years – with hundreds of settlement conferences and mediations; co-founding and growing a law firm that specialized in complex multiparty, document intensive, commercial and environmental cases.  Ike teaches the application of Nonviolent Communication (founded by Marshall B. Rosenberg) to mediation. Ike has served on the boards of Center for Nonviolent Communication and ADRNC.  He is on the mediation panel for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California

John Helie, co-founder of Mediate.com and winner of Association for Conflict Resolution’s Mary Parker Follet Award is an early mediator currently directing Contra Costa Court’s ADR program. He pioneered mediation community interactions and developed systems for internet-based negotiation and conflict resolution. Having extensively studied mediation practices, he supported mediation infrastructure in a variety of ways and is well known throughout the mediation community.