Below is a message from Conflict Resolution Alliance (CRA) Member Giuseppe Leone:
Dan Simon and Tara West have a long experience in transformative mediation. They have recently published a book titled “Self-Determination in Mediation: The Art and Science of Mirrors and Lights”.
In the Acknowledgment section of their book, they mention an online mediation simulation that many years ago I organized via Skype (Zoom didn’t exist yet), and Lisa Jacobs participated in, playing the role of one of the parties.
The purpose of running those online mediation simulations was simple: I was curious to see if the same case, mediated by three different mediators experienced in three different mediation methods (facilitative, narrative, and transformative) would yield different results. They did. But why?
In any event, I’m glad that two CRA Hawaii members – like Lisa Jacobs and I – from our homes in Hawai’i were able to make this small contribution that inspired many years later Dan Simon and Tara West to write a book based also on our little experiment.
Giuseppe Leone
