Joseph George of GeorgeandGeorgeADR.com, based in Jacksonville, Florida joins Mac Pierre-Louis and Natalia Olowska-Czajka, co-founders of InstantMediations.com to discuss video marketing of ADR practices. In this episode we go through Joseph’s discoveries and experiences in this field and discuss 3 of his dispute resolution videos used to market his ADR business. Watch some of his […]
Conflict in Ukraine – Lessons Learned from Vietnam With Chuck Searcy
Chuck Searcy, Vietnam-based peacemaker and founder of Landmines.org.vn, joined Mediator-trainer author Thomas G. Giglione of Mediation.vn and Mac and Natalia to discuss lessons learned from the Vietnam conflict and how they apply to the current situation in Ukraine 2022. With the eventual end of this conflict will come the work of removing unexploded munitions. This […]
Mediating Preference Actions in Bankruptcy Cases
Sylvia Mayer of smayerlaw.com joins Mac Pierre-Louis and Natalia Ołowska-Czajka of OlowskaPierre.com to talk about a very important bankruptcy issues, which can be mediated, namely the preference actions. Preference actions bring a lot of contentious issues into the bankruptcy proceedings yet mediation can offer a good way out to avoid the courtroom and a legal […]
Attorney-Mediators Discussing Morality Clauses & Avoiding Conflicts When Dating After Divorce
Fran Brochstein of FamilyLaw4u.com joins Mac and Natalia of OlowskaPierre.com in Houston, in person, to do this video on morality clauses and avoiding conflicts when dating after divorce. The morality clauses which can be encountered in some of the MSAs (mediated settlement agreements) concern stipulating the time (usually at night) where no third party is […]
TITANS OF MEDIATION Dr. Bernie Mayer & Dr. Font-Guzman of “The Neutrality Trap”
Dr. Jaqueline Font-Guzman joined with Dr. Bernie Mayer upon invitation from Dr. Barbara Sunderland Manousso to talk with Mac-Arthur Pierre-Louis and Natalia Ołowska-Czajka of OlowskaPierre.com in PART 3 about their book The Neutrality Trap: Disrupting and Connecting for Social Change. The conversation goes through the topics of social change, touching on what it means in […]
Conflict in Ukraine Day 14- A Polish Perspective
On the same evening that US Vice President Kamala Harris gave an address in Warsaw, Poland, addressing ways the United States was ready to help Ukrainian refugees entering Poland, InstantMediation’s co-founder Natalia Olowska-Czajka of OlowskaPierre.com/polska sat down on the podcast to record her recent experiences in the city, and to share ways people can help […]
HowToMarketMyMediationPractice.com With Natalie Armstrong-Motin
Natalie Armstrong-Motin of HowToMarketMyMediationPractice.com joined Sylvia Mayer of Smayerlaw.com, and Mac & Natalia of OlowskaPierre.com, to talk mediator marketing strategies that really work and business basics of successful practices. The discussion centered on the foundational pieces mediators need, including the five marketing activities that have proven most effective for successful mediators and arbitrators around the […]
TITAN OF MEDIATION Dr. Bernie Mayer
Dr. Bernie Mayer, professor emeritus of Dispute Resolution of The Werner Institute at Creighton University, spoke with Dr. Barbara Sunderland Manousso of Manousso.us, together with Mac-Arthur Pierre-Louis and Natalia Ołowska-Czajka of Olowskapierre.com, to discuss the themes in his book The Neutrality Trap: Disrupting and Connecting for Social Change. Co-written by Dr. Font-Guzman as a co-author. […]
Attorney-Mediators Discussing Can I Track My Children When They Visit the Other Parent
In this episode Fran Brochstein of FamilyLaw4u.com joins Mac and Natalia of OlowskaPierre.com and for the first time – physically together, in Houston, in person, to do the video! We share the insights on the tracking methods used commonly by one parent against another and what consequences it can bring. The video shows the do’s […]
EPISODE 100! LIVE FROM #TAMconference2022 Keeping the Heart of Mediation with Dr. Manousso
Dr. Manousso of Manousso.us, fellow Instant Mediations podcaster on her series “Manousso Musing” got a chance to discuss something close to her heart, that is keeping keeping the heart of mediation and differentiating from other conflict resolution practices like negotiated settlement.