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Mediate with LH, LLC
ALOHA AND WELCOME TO OUR SITE INFORMING, EDUCATING, PROMOTING ADR (THROUGH MEDIA)
Looking for a way to inform, educate, and promote means by which to avoid, prevent, resolve conflict in an entertaining manner? – consider us to meet your needs. Be it a panel discussion, interview, or enactment we can review, suggest, and execute via media in a format consistent with the platform on which you intend to have it viewed. Visually - it will not be a Hollywood production – as we are not interested in having you spend thousands of dollars.
We’ve been producing a series along and a good number of specials in this arena aired on Community Television. At this point we’re ready to produce commercially - focusing on content as well as visualization. As examples we have produced our series containing vignettes (enactments of various conflict situations) followed by panel discussions. We have taped an extensive series of interviews on the subject of Appeals in Hawaii and transformed the interviews into a chapterized production covering such areas as written briefs, oral arguments, and civility. We have taped interviews and collaborated to incorporate additional imagery and video applicable to the interview subject matter. We have taped training sessions and extracted and summarized key components – capturing audience interaction. We have also begun to explore reverse engineering training videos. As an example we recently presented a vignette by our actors in an area of conflict to a focus group who critiqued the vignette. They were then asked to identify examples of conflict they have experienced and to design their own vignette which were enacted by our actors and in turn critiqued. The desired outcome is to analyze the focus group activities so as to come up with a reversed engineered and optimized training exercise to be utilized for training. This is an ambitious project captured on video and currently under review.
We continue to expand our capabilities by taking on additional media challenges to provide visualization in areas of interest to stakeholders.
So, if you have an area of interest you would like to explore and capture in media give us a call and let’s have a discussion. We’re ready to consider your challenge and provide a proposal including development of a prototype for your consideration, critique, editing, finalizing and final approval.
We will soon begin developing and posting and or linking to examples of each of the above capabilities so you can get a better idea of what we do. Our intention is to bring media to the screen in ways which enrich and enliven informing, educating, and promoting in an entertaining manner.
Mediation Practice
My mediation practice is based on requests from parties looking for a mediator to intercede in their conflict or dispute through facilitation and problem solving.
One of the issues in deciding whether or not to use a mediator is cost. If your first concern is cost it is $150/hr. If we’ve moved beyond that point let me explain what I offer.
My first concern for my clients as a potential client is the nature of a case – making sure I can deal with the issues the parties are interested in having mediated and whether or not it is amenable and ripe, in my opinion, to mediation. For example I would not consider a case where one party is bent on litigation and the only way they will consider mediation is as a result of a court order.
Many parties do not understand mediation and sometimes have misconceptions of what mediation can or cannot do. To gain a better understanding of mediation and my perspective on it please visit either of my blogs – older one at http://email.mediate.com/blogs/mediatewithkh or more recent one at http://email.mediate.com/blogs/leoblog. They both contain the same information except the older one goes much further back in time.
Usually one of the parties asks for mediation or it may be court ordered or both parties are interested in mediation and they are searching for a mediator in whom they place their trust.
After the parties mutually agree to mediation and a mediator I meet with them individually to ascertain their perspective on the conflict or dispute. We discuss potential paths by which to proceed – joint sessions or separate ones depending on the nature of the case, emotions, logistics, confidentiality, etc.
We have an opening session – usually jointly – to have each party make an opening statement on their perspective of the case in the presence of their opponents. Thereafter we may continue to proceed in joint session or we might have a separate meeting and I shuttle between parties.
An objective in this process is to have each party present their issues and needs to resolve their conflict and to start narrowing down and focusing on issues which represent common ground so they can be moved towards negotiation.
As you’ll see from the blogs there are numerous considerations which have to be taken into account by the parties and myself as mediator.
When we get to negotiations we conduct a series of sessions to focus and narrow issues and each clients needs to reach agreement for meeting needs in resolving issues and preserving interests.
For additional material on mediation visit:
http://preventavoidresolveconflict.blogspot.com/
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