by Brendan Schütte | Jul 13, 2020
Instead of considering ourselves the hero of our own story, and those we are in conflict with as villains, Brendan Schutte encourages people in troubled relationships to ‘rewrite the script’. HIDDEN agendas. Unconscious desires. Unspoken assumptions. This column is...
by Brendan Schütte | Jun 10, 2020
Contact us By Brendan Schutte, the convenor of the ASM Plus workplace and employment team and a member of its Critical Thinking Team. Reframing is considered by many mediators to be an essential technique and mindset in working with parties to facilitate resolution....
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,...