Mediating High-Conflict Disputes/MWI

Mediating high-conflict disputes requires a more structured process. This is especially true when disputes involve ongoing relationships, such as parenting issues in divorce, elder law decision-making, business conflicts, workplace disputes and neighbor disputes. When these relationship disputes become “high-conflict” (extremely intense or prolonged), it is usually because one or more individuals lack conflict self-management skills, being temporarily overwhelmed or having a long-standing high-conflict personality pattern. Bill Eddy is a lawyer, therapist, mediator and co-founder of the High Conflict Institute based out of San Diego, CA. He developed the high conflict personality (HCP) theory and has written books on dealing with HCPs in legal, business, family and mediation settings. During this particular discussion, Bill will join us from the west coast to discuss the principles and paradigm shifts for managing high-conflict people (or any upset person) in mediation.

MWI Roundtable events are free for all active MWI mediators. Those who are not actively mediating with the MWI Court Panel are welcome to attend up to one Roundtable per year for free. RSVP is required for all attendees and can be completed by registering online. For more information on this and other upcoming MWI Roundtables, click here.

Questions? Send to MWI mediator and Manager of Commercial & Corporate Programs Marcus Stergio via email at mstergio@mwi.org or call 617-895-4029.