Podcast appearances and mentions of bernie mayer

Berni Mayer startete seine Schriftstellerkarriere mit den Mandel-Krimis, in die er sein Wissen über die Musikbranche eingebracht hat. Der Ur-Bayer und Wahl-Berliner war in einem früheren Leben nämlich Online-Redakteur bei MTV. Seine beiden neuen Bücher drehen sich um ernsthaftere Themen. Sein Roman „Das vorläufige Ende der Zeit“ ist „ein Buch über Schmerz, Verlust und die Hoffnung danach“, wie es die Süddeutsche Zeitung auf den Punkt bringt. Gewohnt leichtfüßig erzählt Berni Mayer die Geschichte von drei leicht absurden Figuren, die in die eigene Vergangenheit zurückreisen. Einer der Charaktere muss – wie Bernie Mayer im echten Leben – den Verlust seiner Tochter verkraften. Dazu hat er gleich noch ein Sachbuch hinterhergeschoben: In „Anleitung zum Traurigsein“ schildert er offen und kompetent zugleich, wie es ist, einen nahen Menschen zu verlieren und was dann zu tun ist. Aber keine Sorge, diese Podcast-Folge bleibt trotz schwerer Themen gewohnt unterhaltsam und präsentiert mit Berni Mayer einen sehr wandlungsfähigen und originellen Autor, den wir wärmstens empfehlen können (achso, Judith: Berni schreibt man übrigens mit einem „i“ und nicht mit „ie“, just saying).

The Inclusive Language Handbook: A Guide to Better Communication and Transformational Leadership, by Jackie Ferguson and Roxanne BellamySometimes it's not OK to be just neutral. In fact, it can be very dangerous when talking about effecting change and establishing social justice for everyone. In this episode, hear why the problem led these Eastern Mennonite University professors, Jackie Font-Guzmán and Bernie Mayer, to co-authored "The Neutrality Trap: Disrupting and Connecting for Social Change."Purchase "The Neutrality Trap: Disrupting and Connecting for Social Change" on Amazon.Diversity Beyond the Checkbox is brought to you by The Diversity Movement, hosted by Head of Content Jackie Ferguson and is a production of Earfluence. DEI Navigator offers access to our award-winning team of proven business leaders and certified diversity executives, along with expert curated content, how-to guides, specialized training, and a community of peers sharing their ideas and lessons learned — all at a fraction of the cost of hiring a full-service DEI consultancy.

Sometimes it's not OK to be just neutral. In fact, it can be very dangerous when talking about effecting change and establishing social justice for everyone. In this episode, hear why the problem led these Eastern Mennonite University professors, Jackie Font-Guzmán and Bernie Mayer, to co-authored "The Neutrality Trap: Disrupting and Connecting for Social Change."Purchase "The Neutrality Trap: Disrupting and Connecting for Social Change" on Amazon.Diversity Beyond the Checkbox is brought to you by The Diversity Movement, hosted by Head of Content Jackie Ferguson and is a production of Earfluence. 

In today's episode, Julie talks to Bernie Mayer and Jackie Font-Guzmán about the ideas they explore in their new book, The Neutrality Trap: Disrupting and Connecting for Social Change (Wiley, 2022). Two long-time mediators and mediation teachers, Bernie and Jackie describe their growing disillusionment with the way mediation is sometimes offered to family and other litigants: as a panacea that will smooth over rough edges and produce an “agreement,” which will be able to resolve underlying differences. Bernie and Jackie both speak to their personal experience of conflicts that reflect larger societal power differences and systems, and reflect on the danger that a more superficial, “make nice” approach reinforces existing inequalities and injustices. Going behind the headlines (“he is a monster!” “she is impossible!”), while messy, uncomfortable, and often worse, can produce a more realistic path for moving forward, and allows each party to explore their own truth. Bernie Mayer was a founding partner of CDR Associates, and has provided conflict intervention for families, communities, universities, corporations, and governmental agencies throughout North America and internationally for over 35 years. Bernie is Emeritus Professor of Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, Creighton University. He has worked in child welfare, mental health, substance abuse treatment, and psychotherapy. His earlier books include: Beyond Neutrality, and The Conflict Paradox. Jackie Font-Guzmán is the inaugural Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Eastern Mennonite University. Previously she was professor of conflict and peacebuilding at Creighton University. Jackie has provided mediation, facilitation, and consulting services to many international and transnational organizations. She previously worked in law and health policy. In Other News: This week our In Other News Correspondent is Research Assistant Charlotte Sullivan. Charlotte discusses: a news release from the Department of Justice on advancing reconciliation through addressing the overrepresentation of Indigenous peoples in the criminal justice system in Canada; and a recent access to justice study showing an exponential increase in dismissals of race-based cases by the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario. For related links and more on this episode visit our website: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/does-making-nice-make-it-worse/ Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Brauntë Petric; Other News produced and hosted by Charlotte Sullivan; promotion by Moya McAlister and the NSRLP team.

Dr. Jaqueline Font-Guzman joined with Dr. Bernie Mayer upon invitation from Dr. Barbara Sunderland Manousso to talk with Mac-Arthur Pierre-Louis and Natalia Ołowska-Czajka of OlowskaPierre.com in PART 3 about their book The Neutrality Trap: Disrupting and Connecting for Social Change. The conversation goes through the topics of social change, touching […] The post TITANS OF MEDIATION Dr. Bernie Mayer & Dr. Font-Guzman of “The Neutrality Trap” appeared first on Instant Mediations.

Dr. Bernie Mayer, professor emeritus of Dispute Resolution of The Werner Institute at Creighton University, spoke with Dr. Barbara Sunderland Manousso of Manousso.us, together with Mac-Arthur Pierre-Louis and Natalia Ołowska-Czajka of Olowskapierre.com, to discuss the themes in his book The Neutrality Trap: Disrupting and Connecting for Social Change. Co-written by […] The post TITAN OF MEDIATION Dr. Bernie Mayer appeared first on Instant Mediations.

Dr. Jacqueline N. Font-Guzmán, the inaugural executive director of diversity, equity and inclusion at Eastern Mennonite University, is the featured guest.Font-Guzmán, a native of Puerto Rico, talks about her journey into conflict resolution and to the position at EMU from the fields of law and healthcare. She also shares about her new book, co-written with Bernie Mayer, The Neutrality Trap: Disrupting and connecting for social change (Wiley, 2021). The message at the heart of  The Neutrality Trap is that, when it comes  to the important social issues that face us  today, avoiding conflict is a mistake. We  need conflict, engagement, and disruption in order to make it to the other side  and progress toward the worthy goal of  social justice. The two authors, former colleagues at Creighton University, will co-teach a course on disrupting and connecting for social change at CJP's 2022 Summer Peacebuilding Institute. “The idea is that a lot of our value in neutrality stems from a position of privilege --that it's easy to be neutral,' such as the professional codes of ethics for lawyers and medical personnel,” Font-Guzmán explains. “But if you look at it, they're all through the lens of really preserving a status quo and a system that was not built with people that come from a minoritized group like mine…Every time you're thinking about being neutral or professional, what does that really mean?”Font-Guzmán is a practitioner in the conflict transformation field and is also a professor at EMU's Center for Justice and Peacebuilding. She has a master's degree in healthcare administration from St. Louis University, a law degree from InterAmericana University of Puerto Rico and a PhD in conflict analysis and resolution from Nova Southeastern Florida. Font-Guzmán's first book “Experiencing Puerto Rican Citizenship and Cultural Nationalism” (Palgrave Macmillan) was the winner of the Puerto Rico Bar Association 2015 Juridical Book of the Year.She characterizes EMU as at “an exciting crossroad where there's a group of people really authentically going through thinking how they can make a better world, how they can really lead together, how we can teach our students to be out there, be truly agents of social change and be leaders in affecting that social change.” Read about her philosophy and her leadership with new DEI initiatives on campus.

This week’s episode is taken from a keynote speech recently delivered by Julie and her husband and professor of conflict resolution, Bernie Mayer, to the joint annual conference of the Ontario Association of Family Mediators and the Ontario Collaborative Law Federation. Julie and Bernie addressed an audience of mediators and legal professionals focused on Access to Justice – a sample of insiders – and presented them with two challenges: to consider Access to Justice as a threshold issue, and to examine how we handle conflict in our wider culture. They discussed the ways paternalism and a system of complex rules are holding the legal profession back, and how system insiders need to face and address systemic problems. The episode outro is provided by family lawyer Chris Arnold, whose Ottawa practice focuses on family mediation and collaborative family law; Chris was present for Julie and Bernie’s speech, and he reflects on the reception it got at the conference. In other news: last week, leaders of 50 justice organizations in British Columbia joined Attorney General David Eby and Chief Justice of British Columbia Robert Bauman to mark the signing of the Access to Justice Triple Aim, which will guide initiatives and reforms for making family and civil justice more accessible to British Columbians; a recent podcast from the Lawyerist podcast is all about access to justice, and includes an in-depth conversation with Professor Rebecca Sandefur; and finally, NSRLP announced last week that we have two new members joining our Advisory Board, Justice David Price, and Ms. Jana Saracevic – welcome both! For related links and more on this episode, visit our website: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/facing-a-broken-system/ Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Brauntë Petric; Other News produced and hosted by Ali Tejani; promotion by Moya McAlister and Ali Tejani.

The scope of practice for paralegals, especially to help family litigants, has become a central issue in the debate over A2J in Canada. In this episode, Nancy Merrill, a family lawyer and mediator, and now the President of the BC Law Society, talks about her vision for expanding alternative legal services in BC, and her hopes for change. Will BC become a battleground for this issue as it has in Ontario, in the wake of the (still not implemented)Bonkalo report? Nancy’s commitment to the BC Law Society being a “courageous and innovative regulator” extends to rethinking legal education and training, promoting diversity initiatives, and increasing awareness about mental health challenges in the legal profession. In other news: NSRLP will have intervener status in a case at the Alberta Court of Appeal, in the context of the apparently increasing frequency with which SRLs are designated vexatious, or have contempt orders issued against them; the Ontario Court of Appeal has published an order providing CBC the right to place cameras in particular courtrooms to record, live-stream, and broadcast specific proceedings, and we’re hopeful this could result in more openness and transparency in court proceedings; the Ontario government has announced a fundamental change to the justice system by vastly expanding the pool of potential jurors, to better reflect economic and racial diversity; and finally, Julie and Bernie Mayer recently presented a joint keynote address for the annual conference of the Ontario Association of Family Mediators and the Ontario Collaborative Law Federation, discussing the role of mediators in administering access to justice. For related links and more on this episode visit our website: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/can-bc-lead-the-way-on-paralegals/ Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Brauntë Petric; Other News produced and hosted by Ali Tejani; promotion by Moya McAlister and Ali Tejani.

This week on the podcast we hear from delegates at the NSRLP’s recent 5th Anniversary event, “Continuing the Dialogue”, which brought together people from across the justice system, including self-represented litigants, to engage in frank discussion about the Access to Justice crisis, and what needs to happen to ensure SRLs have a place at the table. We asked everyone to give us one practical change that would make a real difference in Access to Justice, and recorded some fabulous responses from SRLs, lawyers, A2J advocates, and academics. To tie all these thoughts together, we asked our Event Facilitator, Bernie Mayer, to comment and reflect with Julie. Thanks to all our contributors: Dom Bautista, Denice Barry, Anthony Morgan, Joel Miller, Jeff Rose-Martland, Jana Saracevic, Kenneth Cheng, Ali Tejani, Randi Druzin, Judy Gayton, and Andrew Pilliar. In other news: The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice has released 3 new reports on Everyday Legal Problems and the Cost of Justice in Canada; the Law Society of BC is evaluating a proposal to establish a new category of legal practitioners; and for more on NSRLP’s Dialogue Event, see our recent blog co-written by Julie and Jennifer Muller. For more on this episode see our website: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/public-voices-matter/ Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Brauntë Petric; Other News produced and hosted by Ali Tejani; promotion by Moya McAlister and Ali Tejani.

In many situations we see our decisions as an ‘either/or’ dilemma. Author and Ph.D. Bernie Mayer argues in his new book, The Conflict Paradox, Seven Dilemmas at the Core of Disputes, that the real challenge  is to find a new path that incorporates both approaches. These apparently opposing conflict practices need not be mutually exclusive—in fact, each is necessary to the other. Bernie Mayer is aProfessor of Dispute Resolution, at The Werner Institute, Creighton University. For over thirty years he has been a leader in the conflict resolution field. Bernie has facilitated many complex environmental conflicts, commercial and organizational disputes, interpersonal conflicts, public decision-making processes, and has an extensive background in family mediation as well. He is a founding partner of CDR Associates, a pioneering conflict intervention firm. Bernie is the author of many books and articles. His lastest book is, The Conflict Paradox, Seven Dilemmas at the Core of Disputes.  Stephen Kotev is a Washington D.C. based conflict resolution consultant offering mediation, negotiation and facilitation services, conflict coaching, training and somatic education to private and government clients. He holds a Master of Science degree from George Mason University’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution and a black belt in the Japanese martial art of Aikido. Stephen is a nationally recognized expert on how to maintain your performance under pressure and the Chair of the Association for Conflict Resolution’s Taskforce on Safety in ADR.  

When to compromise and when to hold fast to our principles is one of the most difficult challenges we face when dealing with conflict. Listen in on June 24 at 8 pm Eastern as mediator, professor and author Bernie Mayer considers how these two values simultaneously prevent us and enable us to deal with some of the most difficult conflicts in our life. Bernie Mayer is aProfessor of Dispute Resolution, at The Werner Institute, Creighton University. Bernie has facilitated many complex environmental conflicts, commercial and organizational disputes, interpersonal conflicts, public decision-making processes, and has an extensive background in family mediation as well. He is a founding partner of CDR Associates, a pioneering conflict intervention firm, located in Boulder, Colorado. Bernie is the author of many books and articles including The Dynamics of Conflict: A  Guide to Engagement and Intervention;Beyond Neutrality: Confronting the Crisis in Conflict Resolution, and Staying With Conflict: A Strategic Approach to Ongoing Disputes. He is currently working on new book, The Conflict Paradox, which is due to be published early in 2015. Stephen Kotev is a Washington D.C. based conflict resolution consultant offering mediation, negotiation, conflict analysis, facilitation, training and somatic education to private and government clients. He holds a Master of Science degree from George Mason University’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution and a black belt in the Japanese martial art of Aikido.