The plaintiff walked into the conference room, a middle-aged person that appeared as a child carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders. Yet, encouraged by a support person and an attentive lawyer, the plaintiff able to share details about the impact that years of abuse by an authority figure had had on them. […]
Category: Mediations
Three ways the Children’s Hospital made me a better mediator
While it was a few years ago now, my weeks spent sleeping on the pull-out beds at the Children’s Hospital taught me several lessons that have influenced how I run mediations. While some families spend months or years in the twilight zone, the two weeks we spent in the Children’s Hospital was a foreign and […]