Mediation Channel Classics

As I do each month, I’ve highlighted posts from prior years. Here is the selection for January:

January 2009

• No soap, radio: confronting the fear of asking questions
• Remembering wartime: photos of present-day city evoke tragic past

January 2008

• Send lawyers, guns and mediators: what songs would be on your mediation playlist?

January 2007

• Is your negotiating style leaving value on the table?
  
• Three-part series: “Bridging the divide between lawyers and mediators“

January 2005

• Mediation isn’t “meditation” with a typo

I hope the new year is off to a good start – may you fulfill your aspirations for the year ahead!

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Each month I highlight posts that appeared during that month from previous years. Taking a look over my shoulder at posts from Decembers past, I offer up the following selection:

December 2007

• Out of the mouths of babes: a child’s guide to the law

December 2006

• You say trials are vanishing like it’s a bad thing
• Lawyers negotiate whoopee in humor video

December 2005

• Behind closed doors: the meaning of privacy and the influence of culture
• Geography has made us neighbors: the importance of geographic literacy in the 21st century

Here’s wishing you happy December holidays, with joy, health, and peace.

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At the start of each month, I highlight some selected posts from prior years.

November’s trip in the wayback machine yields these articles:

November 2008

• To err is human: how do we keep our feet out of our mouths in the first place?
• Testing for negotiation skills, creativity: an LSAT for the 21st century

November 2007

• Lawyers, Pakistan and democracy: is it time for a Nobel Prize in law?
• Myth or fact: are attorneys the best mediators?
• How to turn a simple misunderstanding into all-out war: a mediator’s advice
• In weighing the Uniform Mediation Act, Massachusetts mediators may be poised to repeat mistakes of the past

November 2006

• When in Rome (and Paris and Tokyo): avoiding the international faux pas
• Change of perspective: maps brings new ways of seeing

November 2005

• Deconstructing Harry: A legal scholar examines the role and rule of law in the world of Harry Potter

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When you’ve been blogging for as long as I have – almost five years – you accumulate a lot of written material in your archives.

Back in July I began to spotlight posts from the past that generated reader response or are simply my favorites. So, on the first day of each month, I pick posts for that month from prior years to revisit.

Here are October’s selections:

October 2008

• Jumping to conclusions? Take the Cash Register Test to find out how much
• Disputant perceptions of gender: a challenge for women who mediate
• Animated short celebrates 60th anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights

October 2007

• Mediators, so you think you’re neutral? Bias hard to detect in ourselves, study shows
• Antisocial networking sites link you to your enemies

October 2006

• “Making Mediation Your Day Job”: Mediator uses blog to publish book on mediation marketing (a real blast from the past, since Tammy Lenski is now at work on a second edition of this outstanding ADR marketing resource)
• When the political gets personal: what the Military Commissions Act of 2006 means to one mediator and her family
• Ghost of a chance: three ways mediators can celebrate Halloween (unfortunately one link has expired but the others are still good fun, so enjoy)

October 2005

• Accentuate the positive: studies reveal human propensity for reframing to see good in outcomes

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