Bringing Peace Into the Room

Daniel Bowling is an attorney, mediator, mediator trainer, and the director of the Washington, D.C. office of Resolve, Inc., a public policy consensus building organization. He was the first CEO of ACR (The Association for Conflict Resolution), the executive director of SPIDR (Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution), and cofounder of the Lowcountry Mediation Network, the first mediation organization in South Carolina. David A. Hoffman is an attorney, mediator, and arbitrator at the Boston Law Collaborative, LLC, a multi-disciplinary firm devoted to conflict resolution and the practice of collaborative law. He is chair-elect of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution and has taught mediation, negotiation, and family law at Northeastern University Law School and Harvard Law School.

• Introduction (Daniel Bowling and David A. Hoffman). 1. Bringing Peace into the Room: The Personal Qualities of the Mediator and Their Impact on the Mediation (Daniel Bowling and David A. Hoffman).2. What Are the Personal Qualities of the Mediator? (Kenneth Cloke).3. Unintentional Excellence: An Exploration of Mastery and Incompetence (Peter S. Adler).4. Managing the Natural Energy of Conflict: Mediators, Tricksters, and the Constructive Uses of Deception (Robert D. Benjamin).5. Trickster, Mediator’s Friend (Michelle LeBaron).6. Emotionally Intelligent Mediation: Four Key Competencies (Marvin E. Johnson, Stewart Levine, and Lawrence R. Richard).7. Paradoxes of Mediation (David A. Hoffman).8. Mediation and the Culture of Healing (Lois Gold).9. Creating Sacred Space: Toward a Second-Generation Dispute Resolution Practice (Sara Cobb).10. The Personal Qualities of the Mediator: Taking Time for Reflection and Renewal (Jonathan W. Reitman, Esq.).11. Style and the Family Mediator (Donald T. Saposnek).12. Tears (David A. Hoffman).13. Mindfulness Meditation and Mediation: Where the Transcendent Meets the Familiar (Daniel Bowling).Suggestions for Further Reading.Notes.The Contributors.Index.