The Scale of Feelings

Emotional scales reflect the level of feelings. They help to climb the next and better level. Feelings in that roaster are not to be evaluated in good or bad. This assessment would be highly individualized, because hate may be a useful and good feeling for the person concerned. A problem occurs where this person glues in it. It will be good, if that feeling is just seen a step to climb the next better feeling. In that scale of feelings we can step from unpleasant to pleasant feelings, knowing that the worst thing that can happen to us is a bad feeling.

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Thanks to everybody for the wishes to christmas and the new year

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IM now is on Facebook

Our web site actually has a good ranking. But from that we cannot have enough. Everybody should know about mediation and every mediator should know about integrated mediation. Since contributions are forwarded  to Twitter already, We now have an Facebook account established. You can access the english languages page when clicking here.

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Intercultural Mediation

On the occasion of the EU project EuroNetMed the topic of “intercultural mediation” is discussed very intensively and that based on the question: Does the mediator need knowledge about the cultural backgrounds of the parties? The issue is discussed thoroughly in dispute. Some say yes, he needs this knowledge. Others say, no, he does not need it. A multi-pronged approach is the right one.

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IM Bulletin – 07

This is to inform our members and subscribers about news of IM. You will find the English translation in italic letters below each paragraph or item.

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About Confidentiality

On a workshop at the conference in Fort de France almost 20 participants discussed about confidentiality. All of them are very well experienced mediators. Most of them are judge mediators. But there have been lawyers and psychologists as well. The discussion was about child abuse coming up in a mediation.

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Conference on Judicial Mediation

MEDIATION AND HUMAN DIGNITY

Evolution of Mediation Practices

GEMME Brings together 450 judges, in twenty countries of the European Union and is recognized as an interlocutor by the European authorities (it has the observer status at the Council of Europe).

CIMJ is an association which brings together international actors in judicial mediation in the world. It is the first international network of actors in the field of mediation.

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Interfaces of Mediation

Interfaces of Mediation in Family Cases

Mostly jurists think, they are omnipotent in solving family conflicts. Seen from the surface it indeed looks like that. One reason is that the law is ruling almost everything that has to be decided in case of a separaton or a divorce. Looking deeper we will see that the law is not able to resolve the most relevant questions coming up for a couple. A divorce is a process of regaining autonomy and individuality for the wife and the husband as well. To achieve best possible results parties have to combine and coordinate at least 4 very different procedures.

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EU Project: Cross Border Mediation

European Network for Mediators in Cross Border Mediation – Duration of the project: 2011, June – 2012, November

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Unity on Unity Day

The 7th International Congress of the integrated mediation took place on the day of German unity in the historic courthouse in the former East Berlin. The seemingly impossible became reality. Lived esteem has become an active demonstration of how the culture could actually change by mediative thinking.

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