The Community Mediation Process: Part One - Planning, Preparation and Design, Process, Evaluation and Monitoring. Community conflict is a fact of life. This year has created new and critical challenges that fuel social and cultural unrest. Many communities are turning to mediation as a way to achieve understanding, resolve conflict and create a better future... Continue Reading →
We Are on the Brink – COVID 19
The tale of deserving businesses being denied CARES loans has, and is, being repeated for many of U.S. small businesses who are the backbone of our economy. These are the small businesses who struggle every day to produce and employ members of our communities, but are unable to access the same support as major players. Things are not going back to normal. If normal is a divided nation with racial and economic inequality – we should not want to return to the old normal. We should instead, embrace the opportunity to be better. But how can one person change a hurting globe?
The New Normal: An Opportunity to get Stronger, Smarter, Kinder and Happier
Every day we have an opportunity to get stronger, smarter, kinder and happier. The empowering concept with a global crisis such as COVID-19, is that we will get through this. Through adversity comes opportunity. Use this crisis wisely.
The Mystery of Arbitration – We like “Appropriate” Arbitration
Be informed, selective and informed to find a revered arbitrator that express qualities in ethics, knowledge and organizational strength.
Team Resilience in Times of Stress – the Role of the Transformational Leader
Our message is clear. All leadership styles have the ability to guide the organization through challenging times, simply by focusing on kindness, compassion, and grace. We have five key action steps leadership can incorporate in managing change.
Congregational Crisis
A review of a congregational conflict resolution, a plan to facilitate recovery, the 6 week process used and the results.
See Expert Conflict Resolution on a Ride Along with Pueblo City Police
We jumped at the opportunity to do a ridealong with Pueblo police and witnessed facilitative, evaluative and plenty of transformational mediation and conciliation successfully in time critial situations.
Colorado NDR
Colorado NDR is maintained by Martha Wilcoxson offering conflict dispute resolution solutions and sharing informative articles on a variety of topics surrounding the negotiated dispute resolution industry.
Conflict Management for Non-Profits and Turf Battles
Poor conflict management is all too common in today's society, and even seen in what we believe to be the most ethical of industries: non-profits. Taken a step further, conflict arises between organizations and individuals over goals and objectives, who is more beneficial, whose donors are whose, and fund-raiser competition for precious time and dollars?
Happy Presidents Day – Remembering Perceived Irreconcilable Conflict
Jeff Sachs – “Lessons in Peace Making” seems an appropriate tribute to this Presidents Day. It was the Cuban Missile Crises of 1962. The key take away from this great read is that when the majority of decision makers felt that proliferation had reached a point of no return and that peace could not be achieved, President John F Kennedy’s vision was different.
