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In collaboration with the Harvard Program on Negotiation, the Center for Mediation in Law, has just produced "Saving the Last Dance: Mediation Through Understanding". This video demonstrates our mediation model as applied to a highly charged business dispute. Focusing on a conflict between a dance company and its recently discharged choreographer, which raises intellectual property and employment issues, the video alternates between excerpts from the mediation itself and an educational commentary. Pick
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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. The video is available through the Program on Negotiation Clearinghouse and may be ordered on line at: http://www.pon.org or by telephone at 1-800-258-4406, or by fax at 1-781-933-6750.
Purchasers of the video may now download teaching materials free of charge. Please contact us or go to www.pon.org for instructions on how to download these materials.
BOOKS AND ARTICLES
A Guide to Divorce Mediation, Gary Friedman, Workman Publishing, 1993
German edition: Untying the Knot, New York Times Magazine, August 24, 2003.
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Excerpt from Saving the Last Dance: Mediation through Understanding, a mediation training video illustrating the Center's Understanding Based Model of mediation. By: Gary J. Friedman, Jack Himmelstein, and Robert H. Mnookin