Avoid, Accommodate, Compete, Compromise, Collaborate describe the most common approaches to conflict. Though we all may have a basic nature, oftentimes our preferred approach is learned from others.
40 Days of Resolution at Home | Day 2: Conflict History
40 Days of Resolution at Home | Day 1: What is Conflict?
Mediation Musings: Center
For forty years, our name has included the word program. It’s a perfectly good word. We use program with this meaning: plan of action to achieve a specific result. Starting when we became a program of the Edgartown Court in 1984, and going forward to the present, the word “program” has been there, indicating our plan to promote and provide mediation services, with the mission of helping individuals and organizations to resolve their conflicts amicably.
Mediation Musings: Turning Forty
About 40 years ago, right around the time she began writing her seminal article The Logic Behind the Magic of Mediation, Albie Davis came to Martha’s Vineyard to help provide training for the court-sponsored program, which was then just one year old. In that journal article Davis wrote: “I’ve never mediated a case where I didn’t see a little piece of myself in each of the parties, the best and the worst of their qualities. I knew I could be in their shoes . . .”