Event Title: The Many Disciplines that Make Mediation Magical
Event Type: Annual Installation and Awards Presentation
Location:
Via Zoom
Guest are Welcome
Presenter: Richard Birke
Date: Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Time: 5pm to 7pm, via Zoom
Description:
Mediators are, by nature, interdisciplinarians. The best blend a mix of expertise from
law, psychology, negotiation theory, interpersonal skills, cross-cultural awareness and
other disciplines – and they apply insights to questions about strategy, communication,
bargaining and decision making. Of course, every matter also has a substantive
component as well – whatever the heart of the dispute is about.
At this workshop, we’ll look at a number of the fields that inform our practice and
discuss how we use knowledge from these fields in our practices, and how we might
improve even more if we were broader and more deliberate in our interdisciplinary
approach.
About our Presenter:
Richard Birke is a Vice President of JAMS and the Executive Director of the JAMS
Institute—the teaching and training arm of JAMS—where he both provides internal
trainings for JAMS professionals and external training for JAMS across the U.S. and
internationally.
Prior to joining JAMS, Rich had a long career as an academic, teaching at Stanford Law
School as a lecturer before becoming a law professor at Willamette University the
director of its Center for Dispute Resolution.
Rich’s trailblazing work in the psychology and neuroscience of mediation and
negotiation earned him two Article of the Year awards from CPR. He continues his
innovative work as a researcher and writer, as well as a mediator, under the auspices of
JAMS.