Thursday, January 4th
8 a.m PST| 11 a.m EST
Offered by Will Work For Food and moderated by Jeff Kichaven (www.JeffKichaven.com ) and Jean Lawler (www.LawlerADR.com)
This worldwide conversation will be like nothing else. Join in! Share, learn, have fun, and raise money for food banks.
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Our special guest this week, Leonard Riskin will present on:
Managing Conflict Mindfully:
Don't Believe Everything You Think
All of us, including well-trained and experienced negotiators and mediators, sometimes make unwise decisions related to conflict and difficult situations. Such choices can lead to missed opportunities, suboptimal agreements, and impaired relationships, and even to the fear, hatred, anxiety, polarization, and violence that infuse and infect much of today’s world.
This presentation—which draws on Leonard Riskin's new book, Managing Conflict Mindfully: Don’t Believe Everything You Think—will show how and why this happens and what we can do about it, through a new framework that integrates negotiation, mindfulness, and internal family systems. This framework could help anyone deal better with others, and with themselves.
Leonard L. Riskin is a visiting professor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, distinguished senior fellow at its Center on Negotiation, Mediation, and Restorative Justice, and Chesterfield Smith Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. He previously served as Director of the Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution and Isidor Loeb Professor of Law at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Len practices, teaches, and writes about mediation, negotiation, and alternative dispute resolution. Len published the globally-influential "grid" of mediator orientations. He led a major project to integrate dispute resolution into standard law school classes at the University of Missouri School of Law and five other law schools. He also leads efforts to integrate mindfulness and internal family systems into the education of lawyers and other dispute resolution professionals. Len has published several books, numerous articles in scholarly journals, and essays in popular publications including the New York Times Magazine and The Atlantic. He has led training workshops around the world, and has won numerous awards including the Award for Outstanding Scholarship from the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution, the Cloke-Millen Peacemaker Award, and teaching awards at Northwestern Law. His most recent book is Managing Conflict Mindfully: Don't Believe Everything You Think (2023).