Saving the Last Dance: Mediation through Understanding

This is a mediation training video illustrating the Center's Understanding Based Model of Mediation. The Understanding Based Mediation Model seen here shows the mediator working together with the parties and their lawyers in plenary session, without caucuses or shuttle diplomacy. In this model, the law plays an essential, but not necessarily dominant part. The mediator encourages understanding of differing perspectives, concerns, interests and aspirations. On the basis of this understanding, the participants work together to generate creative options to resolve the dispute. Gary Friedman, co-founder and co-director of the Center for Mediation in Law, demonstrates the approach. Jack Himmelstein (also a co-founder and co-director of the Center) and their colleague Harvard Law School Professor Robert H. Mnookin offer insights into the dynamics of the mediation and explain how it illustrates principles of the model.

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Education

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• mediation
• law
• understanding
• collaborative