OS and mediation

[Bui Petersen]

Hi Arno,

I have a background in mediation myself and my experience with OS is 
more recent. As anyone on this list would tell you, OS would be a great 
way to hold your conference. I'm just not sure why you would do 
mediation during the conference. Even a mediators' conference. Do you 
really have that big disputes to resolve?  :)

While OS can be useful for resolving some disputes, it is an entirely 
different process from mediation, at least as I know it. Mediation 
involves significant intervention in the discourse, while OS is almost 
trying to intervene as little as possible. In my practice, I consider 
these to be the opposite extremes of what I do.

Apart from OS there are several other processes that you can use as 
components of an otherwise conventional conference, such as World Cafe, 
Conversation Cafe just to name a couple. But as with anything, it all 
depends on what you are trying to accomplish. Decide on the purpose 
first and then pick the tool.

Hope that is helpful.

Bui Petersen

On 12/11/2010 5:15 AM, Arno Baltin wrote:
> Hi everybody!
>
> I have seen on the list comments from listers with connections to 
> mediation. I am intersted in possible overlappings of these two methods.
> After expressing once my skepsis on traditional conference arrangement 
> (on a mediatiors annual conference) I was encouraged to suggest 
> alternatives. I suggested OS. This idea developed into search for a 
> mix of mediation and OS. The min. program is still dividing annual 
> meeting between time for presentations and OS. The max. program could 
> be some arrangement including OS and mediation practice.
> So, what you think?
>
> Arno
>
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