Monthly Archives: March 2012
Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
The protection of individuals against discrimination is the goal of many existing federal and state laws, as well as countless employment dispute resolution programs. While there are overt acts of discrimination, acts of subtle or unconscious discrimination are prevalent and just as damaging. Worse, because these acts are largely unintentional, they usually don’t fall under existing antidiscrimination laws. It is this type of discrimination for which the early use of mediation can be very helpful and effective.
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
Disputes often occur in the construction industry. Missed deadlines and contract infringements wreak havoc on business and long-lasting working relationships. Parties within the dispute risk future business and customers due to impasse over facts and legal procedures that result in costly legal battles. Focus is no longer on project completion but on interest-based disputing. Continuing in this manner could have devastating effects that are irreparable.
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
Mediation in hospitals or malpractice disputes not only helps to settle claims before they go to court, but also provides the forum for patients and doctors to share all the facts and their feelings about the situation – something that could never happen in a court case.
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
As the population ages, it is more common than ever to hear that a friend or family member is struggling with difficult care-giving decisions for an older loved one in a nursing home or care facility. While mediation has proven to be an effective process for clarifying issues and settling other types of disputes, until now institutionalized adults and their families facing conflict have not enjoyed access to the mediation process. Long term care mediation encourages conflict resolution through neutral
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
Ranging in complexity, real estate disputes may include disagreements between real estate owner/real estate developer; homeowner/homeowner association; property owner/city government; landlord/tenant; buyer/seller; broker/agent; broker/broker; and contractor/client, to name a few. Real estate disputes usually involve two or more parties and often include the attorneys of the disputing parties. Resolution of these disputes through the legal system is often time consuming and lengthy in nature. Most real estate matters are time of the essence situations.
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
Mediation for businesses and the workplace is a process that more and more companies are using to resolve, in an efficient and peaceful manner, client-customer and stakeholder disputes and employee complaints before they become broken relationships or formal grievances. Organizational facilitation relies on the same principles of mediation to resolve disagreements and disputes between groups, departments and other bodies.
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
Baltimore Mediation offers a transformative approach to congregational and church conflict. This approach is both client centered and organizationally oriented, recognizing the need for a healthy organization to function well within as well as with outside constituencies. The focus is to create opportunities within the system for one-on-one interactions as well as group interactions that foster a greater degree of satisfaction with the communication and, in turn, promote “upstream effects” for the whole which include confidence in the responsiveness of
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
The use of mediation in Baltimore family business conflicts and estate planning matters can improve client satisfaction, reduce the probability of litigation, and help estate-planning attorneys avoid a malpractice claim. Family relations can often be strained, from either long-standing disagreements, to feelings of distrust or competitiveness. Trying to make legal decisions without a neutral party, especially at an emotionally charged time, runs the risk of poor decision making.
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes
The role of a mediation coach varies, depending of course, on the circumstances and client’s objectives. A model found helpful by this writer has a behavioral approach. For instance, one of the functions of a mediation coach in preparing a party for mediation is to help the client anticipate possible reactions from the other side and engage him or her to practice effective ways to respond. Coaches act as “the other side” and provide feedback that helps the person in
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Family Disputes - Mediation
MEDIATION WORKS FOR COUPLES AND FAMILIES WANTING TO PRESERVE THEIR MARRIAGE BUT FACED WITH CONFLICT, DIFFICULT OR COMPLEX CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE DECISIONS NEED TO BE MADE
When couples or families desire to stay together, but are faced with difficult or complex circumstances challenging their relationship, or creating stress points or fractures on the quality of their interaction, mediation can provide a breath of fresh air for the situation.
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FAQs
What is facilitation?
Facilitation is a process for groups of people who need to have dialogue about topics or issues that are of high priority to them. There does not have to be a conflict involved, but there are usually different points of view that emerge which are then clarified. Or there may be hard, complicated or difficult matters to discuss, or critical decisions to be made. Facilitation provides the opportunity for all to speak, for all to hear others speak,
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FAQs
What does a mediator do?
A Baltimore Mediation mediator works on behalf of all participants present to have quality discussion to achieve greater clarity and understanding of a situation and to reach the goals of mediation. The mediator listens to the issues of concern, provides summaries and asks questions to help participants work with each other to decide the appropriate solution. The mediator promotes informed decision making and better understanding of the issues, what is important to all those participating
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Family Disputes - Mediation
MEDIATION WORKS FOR DIVORCED PARENTS FACING CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES
When post-divorce changes in parenting arrangements or child or spousal support are desired by one or both parties due to significant changes in circumstances such as relocations, new living or work situations, or changes in the lives of the children, parents welcome having a safe, impartial environment to discuss these types of issues.
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Family Disputes - Mediation
MEDIATION WORKS FOR PARENTS AND TEENS NEEDING TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER AND CREATE NEW WAYS OF COMMUNICATION AND RELATING
It is often difficult for all parties during the teenage years to maintain the relationship they desire with each other while also balancing responsibility, independence, and newly discovered boundaries. When families, parents, and teenagers find that their relationship has changed and has become stressful or a battleground, mediation is an ideal forum for communication and goal clarification.
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Family Disputes - Mediation
MEDIATION WORKS FOR PARTNERSHIP DISSOLUTION
Mediation is an ideal forum, as well as an alternative forum, for addressing the needs of unmarried couples, as well as, gay and lesbian couples, who are working through a separation of their relationship and acquired property. Mediation can help resolve issues for those who have lived together or bought property together, parented a child together, and/or formed a business together while being involved in an emotional and personal relationship with one another.
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Family Disputes - Mediation
MEDIATION WORKS FOR FAMILIES AND SIBLINGS IN DISPUTE OVER INHERITED PROPERTY INCLUDING SUMMER HOMES AND CHERISHED PERSONAL PROPERTY
When parents pass away, it is not only often a painful experience emotionally, but it also often brings about changed situations financially. It can even be a situation of relief mixed with grief and guilt, when the parent died after great suffering, or died when family conflicts were unresolved. Property is often left to children in the form of real estate or stocks.
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Family Disputes - Mediation
MEDIATION WORKS FOR FAMILIES FACING CHANGED LIFE CIRCUMSTANCES WITH ELDERLY PARENTS
When one elderly parent either passes away leaving the other elderly parent living alone, or when one or both parents are growing older and in need of greater attention or care, grown children often struggle out of concern and love for the best course of action.
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Family Disputes
FACILITATION APPROACH
Baltimore Mediation has extensive experience in mediating family disputes, we offer the facilitation Baltimore trusts. Whether a disagreement between two siblings or the entire family, Baltimore Mediation successfully allows for everyone to be heard where a potentially divisive conflict could have occurred. Mediation can turn contention into an experience of clarity and strength for all which has promoted informed decision making, stronger relationships and the emotion involved in decisions concerning family.
Baltimore Mediation’s systems approach and transformative model which, focuses
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Press and Publications
ABC World News Tonight with Charles Gibson recently filmed an Elder-care Mediation piece featuring Louise Phipps Senft. Louise had been working with a family facing the numerous difficulties that people with aging parents face.
ABC’s Piece on Elder-Care Mediation
Through years of sibling estrangement and decades of a somewhat tumultuous relationship with their mother, three siblings committed themselves to the mediation process and were able to come together to galvanize and honor their mother’s living will that requested she be kept alive
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Press and Publications
LOUISE PHIPPS SENFT TO BE INDUCTED INTO THE CIRCLE OF EXCELLENCE FOR MARYLAND’S TOP 100 WOMEN
Press Release
Baltimore, Maryland (April 1, 2009) – Louise Phipps Senft, President and CEO of Louise Phipps Senft & Associates/Baltimore Mediation, has been named again as one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women and selected, as one of 13, as an inductee into the 2009 Circle of Excellence for sustained achievement in Maryland. This is the third time Senft has been chosen as one of
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