by Brendan Schütte | May 3, 2020
Contact us “And catch the heart off guard and blow it open” (from Postscript by Seamus Heaney) Even mediators need a break. And that was before Covid-19. A ‘retreat’ has connotations of organised religion, but in Ireland there is a rich tradition of spirituality, of...
by Brendan Schütte | Jan 31, 2019
Dialogue in the Dark is an interesting experience where visitors are facilitated and guided by visually impaired guides in absolute darkness. You experience first-hand what it is like to live for a short while in complete darkness and go about your daily chores and...
by Brendan Schütte | Aug 23, 2018
Of course, we all say there is great learning in mediation, but how much learning do we as mediators actually engage in? Dr. Cheryl Picard, a mediator in Canada took this question – “what is it that I’m actually doing?” – quite seriously, and worked with a colleague,...
by Brendan Schütte | Apr 5, 2018
In 1990, some psychology experiments conducted and reported by Jonathan Schooler and Tonya Engster-Schooler suggested that giving a verbal account of an incident tended to impair future visualisation of what was described(1). Such information questioned the sense of...
by Brendan Schütte | Oct 26, 2017
Recently we published David Santiago’s training blog which gave a Portugese perspective on this subject. This is Brendan’s very interesting viewpoint. What do people want and what do they need from mediation training ? If a trainee is going to actually...
