Arbitration & Mediation

Articles, videos, and exercises online for the mediation trainer

By Diane Levin

This Thursday and Friday in Boston I’m teaching a program on the essentials of mediation training with Charles Doran, executive director of Mediation Works Incorporated. In preparation for the program, I’ve been pulling together materials on mediation and negotiation training, including the following articles, videos, web sites, and exercises available online. The exercises at the end are ones I’ve collected here on Mediation Channel.

Reading (all in PDF)

• Professor John Wade, Director of the Dispute Resolution Centre, Bond University, “Re-inventing the Pyramid: A Process for Teaching and Learning in Mediation and Negotiation Courses“
• Professor John Wade, Director of the Dispute Resolution Centre, Bond University, “Defining ’success’ in negotiation and other dispute resolution training“
• Kelly Lynn Anders, Associate Dean of Student Affairs, Washburn University School of Law, “‘I’ Before ‘E’, Except in Mediation: Training Introverts to Use Extroverted Techniques to Become Stronger Mediators“
• Thomas H. Smith, “Do the Experts Mean What Their Metaphors Say? An Exploration of Metaphor in Mediation Literature“
• Stephen B. Goldberg and Margaret L. Shaw, “The Secrets of Successful (and Unsuccessful) Mediators“
• Max H. Bazerman et al., “Getting More out of Analogical Training in Negotiations: Learning Core Principles for Creating Value“

Videos

• Hamline University School of Law Mediation Case Law Videos

Web sites

• Campus ADR Tech Blog - a collection of online learning tools for teaching conflict resolution
• Mediate.com - archive of articles on mediation training
• ADR Prof Blog - discussing issues related to teaching ADR in higher education

Exercises and miscellany

• Negotiating styles - an interactive game
• Open-ended questions: a lateral thinking puzzle
• Cash register exercise - an uncritical inference test
• A joke to teach problem solving

Full post as published by Online Guide to Mediation on February 24, 2009 (boomark / email).