ASM PLUS Blog
Workplace and Employment mediation from ASM Plus – Rights, Remedies and the Serious Crisis in UK Employment Tribunals
Contact us As an undergraduate law student, one of the most useful pieces of guidance that I received came from a lecturer who facilitated a sequence of seminars on the topic of “rights”. In the context of looking at different political and legal regimes and...
The hidden costs of overseeing disputes and the benefits of an ASM facilitated meeting involving neighbours who were in dispute – an actual case handled by the ASM Plus director, Paul Sandford
Contact us A few months ago, I successfully facilitated a discussion in connection with a neighbour dispute involving two adjacent tenants. The process was instigated by their landlord, a small, publicly funded Housing Association. In essence one party had made...
Face to face and On-line Mediation and Facilitated Meetings from ASM Plus – how to resolve at least one of the underlying causes of grey hair.
Contact us Whilst recently browsing through an old cookbook (1) I chanced upon a particular “recipe”, a herbal remedy for treating grey hair and turning it brown. “All” one has to do is the following: Put a teaspoonful of loose tea and a teaspoonful of dried sage in a...
Civil, small claims and insurance mediation and facilitated discussions from ASM Plus – problem solving and why ASM Plus makes a difference.
Contact us Recently I read a short story entitled “The Tale of the Merchant” [1] which gives an anecdotal account of some of the attempts of some 17th Century Indian town guards to clamp down on food smuggling during a famine. One of the suspects was a rice merchant. ...
Family Mediation from ASM Plus – the case of Maria which amply reiterates the benefits of family Mediation.
Contact us Not so long ago I struck up conversation with an Anglo-Australian lady in her early forties. In the course of telling her a little about me I mentioned that I am a civil and family mediator. This interested her greatly and she recounted her experience of...
Is Your Soon-To-Be Ex an Idiot?
Contact us I’m going to bust a divorce mediation myth. It is the one called: “My husband/wife won’t use mediation.” https://www.youtube.com/embed/iBgwxYbzZgQ?rel=0 Now stay with me - you don’t want to be making a mistake believing a myth that could cost you...
How to Use Cash Flow Analysis to Assist in Mediation, (and a bit of thinking outside the box)
Contact us This account demonstrates how good, independent financial planning can take the sting out of divorce and faciliate an acceptable and permanent settlement. I was recently working with some clients who had filed for divorce and had reached deadlock on how to...
Civil, small claims and insurance mediation and facilitated discussions from ASM Plus – problem solving and why ASM Plus makes a difference.
Contact us Recently I read a short story entitled “The Tale of the Merchant” (1) which gives an anecdotal account of the failed attempt by some town guards who had been given the task of clamping down on smuggling during a famine. One of the suspects was a rice...
Civil Mediation – Why does “sorry” seem to be the hardest word?
Contact us You would think it was easy to say sorry. It is a short, two syllable word and from a very early age it's one that children are taught to say when they do something wrong. The one word that will help put things right. Back in the 70s there was a sitcom on...
Psychodynamic Literacies
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...