Mediators - Hawaii

4546 Malia St.

Honolulu, HI 98621

Phone: 808.393.0687

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 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. If you are interested in gaining 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. On this website I don’t explain all the terms however there should be an entry in the blogs. 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.

Multimedia approach to Avoiding, Preventing, and Resolving Conflict

An additional offering of my services is in the area of addressing avoiding, preventing and resolving conflict through multimedia. As cited above I write in blogs, I have two “how to” booklets available for purchase on mediation. I am very heavily involved in the conceptualization, preparation, production and post production of videos dealing with mediation. I offer these services to organizations interested in creating training programs dealing with conflict based upon identification of their needs. My experience in this area now spans several years almost 2 years of monthly episodes for Community Television on my series of Avoiding, Preventing, and Resolving Conflict and the capture and post production of a growing number of presentations made by speakers to a variety of audiences. To see examples of our work go to: http://www.olelo.org/ then click on “What’s on” choose “OleloNet:Video On Demand” and search for episodes under the title of “Avoiding, Preventing, Resolving Conflict”. The series is produced for Community Television. If you like what you see be sure and contact us with an inquiry. We’ll respond with a proposal and an outline of what we can do for you and at what cost. It’s an exciting area and we do like to provide entertainment value in our video productions.

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