Last Day of Class

Today was the last day for my Negotiations and Dispute Resolution class. I will really miss this one. For fifteen long weeks we have been meeting and discussing the issues and readings for each week. We have done some sample negotiations and role play mediations. Today I gave the inclass final to the group . It was done orally in a group format. Before I started I told them about the mediations I had this week and tried to recap the principles of mediation so that they would remember them into the new year and take them back to their job.

While I loved teaching this group, it will be nice not to have to get up on Saturday morning...but alas, next week we travel to PDX...and so have to get up, and then on January 1 we come back to GRR and will have to get up...and the next week, January 8, I have a seminar at Cornerstone and will have to get up yet again. Which is all to say I have something to get up for on Saturday morning for the next three weeks....yipeee.

I mediated four cases this week...three at small claims and one which was a referral from the MI Department of Civil Rights. The latter was a long one, but we did get a deal, which only goes to show that the mediation model does work and we are making progress to get people to come to grips with issues in a civil manner rather that through a court hearing. Yipeee.

Tomorrow we sing our Contata, so I better go to bed and get well rested....yipee.