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The following Cyberweek 2007 programs will be featured at COADR.com during the week of Monday, October 15. The audio will be delivered by teleconference and Skype. Desktop sharing and/or group browsing will be used to deliver the visual content to your computer screen.
> An Online Mediation Role Play Workshop, Tuesday, October 16, 5 pm Eastern (21 GMT) for an online
role play demonstration -- the role play is laid out at the foot of this message. The online workshop will continue on Wednesday and Thursday at
times to be determined to give participants hands-on experience with online mediation through role plays.
> 40 ADR web sites in 60 minutes, an online tour of the web, Wednesday, October 17, 3 pm Eastern (19 GMT), lead and narrated by Geoff Sharpe and a panel of other internationally known ADR bloggers who are back, by popular demand, from last year's Marketing Mediation Excellence program.
> Mediation Excellence in Cyberspace, Thursday, October 18, 4 pm Eastern (20 GMT) featuring Colin Rule, Ethan Katsh, Graham Ross and others from last years well attended Cyberweek presentation focus on using the internet for education, training, and networking. The panel will also explore conferencing at a distance without traveling to Melbourne, Hong Kong or wherever the leaders and the experts of the profession are gathering; and also the reestablishment of the ADR online community that once flourished in various email-based ADR discussions that have now withered while the ADR blogs have flourished.
> Taking Peacemaking Public: Friday, October 19, 4 PM Eastern (20 GMT), The panel -- Gini Nelson, Vickie Pynchon, Colm Brannigan and Diane Levin -- will dialog on this topic with two journalists who regularly reach the public directly and effectively: Michael Skoler, Executive Director, Center for Innovation in Journalism, Minnesota Public Radio at American Public Media and Sandra Blakeslee, a regular contributor to The New York Times who specializes in the brain sciences. Some of questions to be considered: "Why
aren't people beating down the doors of peacemakers, whether mediators,
facilitators or negotiators? and, "How can the internet engage people online in ways that
facilitate and promote peacemaking?"
For a full description of the technology involved sign into one of the conference areas at http://coadr.com
For the time being we are including teleconference as
part of our definition of online since our model is using the web for
the visual component and teleconference for the audio component.
Although telephone connections are preferred, users of Skype -- a free, voice-over-internet-protocol, software package -- may call in from all
parts of the world to the teleconference phone bridge for free.
More about the online roll play workshop: So far the role play is relatively simple: The two parties are: a retiree who lives alone with their dog from
whose company they derive companionship and a sense of protection; and a
neighbor who is annoyed by the barking of the dog through the fence
between their adjoining back yards.
The
neighbor has a home based business and hires a firm with employees,
that the retiree supposes are illegal aliens, who come once a
week to tend to the neighbor's lawn and garden which is next to the
fence. Although the dog does not bark at the neighbor, who the dog
recognizes, the dog barks and barks at the "illegals" when they come
once a week to do yard work for the neighbor.
One such day the neighbor called the
retiree to say that the dog had been barking for an hour and that he
would like that to stop. The retiree was very up set because the
neighbor who called was lying, about the dog which, in the mind of the
retiree, had been inside the house until just five minutes before the call
when the dog needed to go outside. The retiree, up set with the
neighbors "lying," abruptly hung up the phone to avoid calling the
neighbor a liar. The neighbor calls the police who turn the call over
to the community mediation service which assigns a mediator.
The role play involves a community mediation service that is
experimenting with online mediation in mediations where the participants are computer
enabled. The mediator assigned to handle this barking-dog case connects with the parties by phone
and, if OK with the
parties, will try to set up and conduct a mediation supported by
telephone,
email and web-based communication.
Turns out that the retiree has a computer and uses the email and the
web to keep in contact with their grandchildren and track what the grandchildren are
up to on MySpace. The neighbor does almost all of their business from
home by telephone, fax and on their computer over the internet.
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Your suggestions for the role play to be presented on Tuesday would be
appreciated -- we are looking for volunteers for the role play as
well. There will be a discussion forum as part of the workshop where
you can offer your suggestions, volunteer, ask questions about the role
play, and discuss the use of technology in mediation. The discussion
forum is in the Online Mediation Role Play Workshop area at http://coadr.com There you will also find instructions for connecting with the teleconference for audio and video components.
After
the demonstration on Tuesday other role plays utilizing the workshop
set up will be arranged later in the week including one on Thursday in
celebration of Conflict Resolution Day.
The workshop will demonstrate how technology
may be used for intake and to work with the parties in all kinds and
levels of mediation ... and be used in tandem with face-to-face
mediation ... and also how technology may be used to deliver training,
learning and networking opportunities online.
Even if the time of day on Tuesday does not work for you, please sign in to the workshop at http://coadr.com to look around as we will be doing more online roll plays at other times, and/or evening, as Cyberweek progresses.
Thanks,
John and Peter
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John and Peter DeBruyn
http://coadr.com
Skype us at jdebruyn or peter.debruyn
voice 303-377-1724 fax 303-321-2655
Denver CO USA
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