Screen-2-Screen Mediation For Face-2-Face Mediators


by Geoff Sharp

From the blog mediator blah...blah...

October 2008

Geoff Sharp

In light of Vickie Pynchon's recent posts Negotiating by Email? Think Again! and More Dangers in Negotiating by Email, this online course on how to mediate by email looks interesting.

As a SquareTrade mediator from Hawaii, Giuseppe Leone has mediated over 600 cases by email across USA, Europe, Asia.

For a measly $90 he will show you how online mediation works, and how you can streamline your mediation practice by handling more cases with fewer face-to-face sessions.

As soon as you find two people willing to play the parties in a neighbor vs neighbor simulation, Giuseppe will send them some scripts and you can start mediating online.

"From that point on, your coach will observe your online mediation -- he'll receive a blind copy of each message you exchange with the parties. And he will answer (by email or by phone) any questions you may have on how to perform online the mediation tasks you are familiar with, like:
>Making your opening statement
>Giving parties the opportunity to vent their feelings
>Discovering the parties' issues, positions, needs and interests
>Helping the parties develop options for resolving their case
>Writing up the parties' agreement"



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Biography




Geoff Sharp is a Commercial Mediator from Wellington, New Zealand. Geoff works in the Asia Pacific region, including New Zealand, Malaysia, Thailand and Pacific Islands. He is a mediator resolving business problems. He is a fellow of the International Academy of Mediators and mediates complex and hotly debated litigation covering a wide range of subject matter from insurance disputes to historic sexual abuse claims.

Geoff is author of the award winning blogĀ mediator blah...blah... a mediation blog experiment in reflective practice and the Mediation vBlog Project, a kind of mediation genome project by video blog.



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