Comments on: Thanks for completing Online Guide to Mediation’s Reader Survey http://mediationchannel.com/2006/09/22/thanks-for-completing-online-guide-to-mediations-reader-survey/ News and ideas about mediation, negotiation, conflict resolution, and law Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:48:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Diane Levin http://mediationchannel.com/2006/09/22/thanks-for-completing-online-guide-to-mediations-reader-survey/#comment-60 Diane Levin Tue, 03 Oct 2006 15:22:00 +0000 http://mediationchannel.com/2006/09/22/thanks-for-completing-online-guide-to-mediations-reader-survey/#comment-60 Reba, I'm really grateful to you on two accounts. First, for responding to the survey. Secondly, for posting such a thoughtful comment. I appreciate so much knowing that my writing has touched you directly. That's what keeps me blogging. I'm glad to know that even though your background is different from mine, we can still listen to each other's voices. What a wonderful background you have, by the way, and undoubtedly your experiences have taught you a lot--you must bring a great deal to the table as a mediator.<br/><br/>Thanks again for your message, Reba. It was such a pleasure to hear from you! Reba, I’m really grateful to you on two accounts. First, for responding to the survey. Secondly, for posting such a thoughtful comment. I appreciate so much knowing that my writing has touched you directly. That’s what keeps me blogging. I’m glad to know that even though your background is different from mine, we can still listen to each other’s voices. What a wonderful background you have, by the way, and undoubtedly your experiences have taught you a lot–you must bring a great deal to the table as a mediator.

Thanks again for your message, Reba. It was such a pleasure to hear from you!

]]> By: Reba http://mediationchannel.com/2006/09/22/thanks-for-completing-online-guide-to-mediations-reader-survey/#comment-59 Reba Tue, 03 Oct 2006 15:03:00 +0000 http://mediationchannel.com/2006/09/22/thanks-for-completing-online-guide-to-mediations-reader-survey/#comment-59 Diane,<br/><br/>Thank you for taking the time to specifically address the 'less emphasis on law' suggestion you received. Not sure if it was I who did that but certainly it is something that has occurred to me. THOUGH not the least bit in a critical way! It is simply that I so much enjoy your obvious skill as a writer and your grasp of varied aspects of the field that as a non-law background mediator (well if you count too many courses on constitutional law during my undergraduate work in political science then perhaps a very wee smidgen of law knowledge) I often grapple with applying some of your sharings in my more unique environment.<br/><br/>All that said, when you spoke of how your career truly impacts how and what you share, and how you can no more remove that then change who you are as a person, I had my aha! moment. Likewise, having been a soldier in Canadian Forces for so long, even in my new role as a mediator ~ a tremendous departure I'm sure you can see ~ I cannot alter the lasting infulence that life injects into who I am and how I approach things.<br/><br/>Thanks so much for taking the effort to explain so graciously and validating that thought. As always I absolutely and thoroughly enjoy your blog and have benefitted tremendously from it in my personal and professional life.<br/><br/>Sincerely,<br/><br/>Rebecca Diane,

Thank you for taking the time to specifically address the ‘less emphasis on law’ suggestion you received. Not sure if it was I who did that but certainly it is something that has occurred to me. THOUGH not the least bit in a critical way! It is simply that I so much enjoy your obvious skill as a writer and your grasp of varied aspects of the field that as a non-law background mediator (well if you count too many courses on constitutional law during my undergraduate work in political science then perhaps a very wee smidgen of law knowledge) I often grapple with applying some of your sharings in my more unique environment.

All that said, when you spoke of how your career truly impacts how and what you share, and how you can no more remove that then change who you are as a person, I had my aha! moment. Likewise, having been a soldier in Canadian Forces for so long, even in my new role as a mediator ~ a tremendous departure I’m sure you can see ~ I cannot alter the lasting infulence that life injects into who I am and how I approach things.

Thanks so much for taking the effort to explain so graciously and validating that thought. As always I absolutely and thoroughly enjoy your blog and have benefitted tremendously from it in my personal and professional life.

Sincerely,

Rebecca

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