Mediate.com Announces Mediation Futures Project

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In Celebration of our 20th Year, Mediate.com Announces
The Mediation Futures Project.

Ultimately, our goal is to develop a set of blueprints for the mediation field most effectively moving into the future.

In coordinating this project, Clare Fowler and Robert Benjamin are working with an Advisory Committee of:

• Peter Adler
• Ken Cloke
• Marvin Johnson
• Jeff Krivis
• Michelle LeBaron
• Bernie Mayer
• Nina Meierding
• Len Riskin
• Don Saposnek
• Maria Volpe

Here are some of our initial Featured Futures Articles:

Featured Futures Articles:

• Looking to the Future: Is There Still A Place For Proactive, Early Intervention Mediation in Our Changing Field?
  Nina Meierding
• Who’s Running the Show?
  Bill Marsh
• Re-conceptualizing the Work as Something Bigger than Ourselves–Reconciliation
  Doug Yarn
• Mediation Going Forward: What Do We Know? What Can We Expect? 
  Donald T. Saposnek
• Beyond “Getting to Yes:” Building Mediation Skills and Insights into Relationships
  Tom Stipanowich
• Predicting the Future of Mediation
  Peter Adler
• Reclaiming Mediation’s Future: Getting Over the Intoxication of Expertise, Re-Focusing on Party Self-Determination 
  Robert A. Baruch Bush, Joseph P. Folger
• Claiming Mediation’s Future
  Elinor Robin, Susan Dubow
• The Future of Alternative Dispute Resolution
  Jerry Barrett
• The Future of Mediation: Mediators As Problem Finders, Makers, and Designers 
  Tammy Lenski

We encourage you to submit your own Mediation Futures article or comment addressing these core questions:

• What from our past should be brought forward and emphasized?

• What current promising approaches should be further developed?

• What would you like to see the mediation field look like in 20 years?

• What specifically should we do now to get there?

Please send your future-focused article or comment of any length to Clare Fowler at editor@mediate.com There is also a form for making comments here.

Should you have any questions about the Futures Project, please contact Robert Benjamin at rbenjamin@mediate.com or by phone at (503) 407-6077.

Thanks for sending in your article or comment by March 1, 2015.  Your ideas are important to our best consideration of the future of mediation!

Many thanks,

Jim Melamed, Mediate.com CEO