Presenter:
Jim Melamed, CADRE and Mediate.com, Eugene, OR
This session will consider various mediators strategies and styles, including problem solving, hypothesis generation and testing (mediator guessing) and doubt and dissonance (heat).
We will then discuss the extent to which empowerment is ethical and advised in the context of the mediators duty to be impartial. How, if offered, can empowerment be reconciled with the mediators duty to be impartial? Empowerment carried to its logical extreme is maximization. Implications of a maximizing model and skills for empowerment and maximization will be reviewed.