Mediator Search
Jim Antes james.antes@und.edu
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Department of Psychology
319 Harvard Street Stop 8380
University of North Dakota
Grand Forks,
ND
58202-8
Phone: (701) 777-3882
Fax: (701) 777-3454
Website: www.und.edu/instruct/jantes
Jim Antes is Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Peace Studies at the University of North Dakota and former director of the UND Conflict Resolution Center. He has extensive experience in the field of conflict resolution as a mediator, workshop leader, and consultant. Holding a Ph.D. degree in psychology from Iowa State University, he has numerous publications and presentations at professional conferences on various aspects of conflict resolution, focusing especially on the practice of mediation from the transformative perspective. He is a Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and serves as secretary of its Board of Directors.
Dr. Antes was a member of the national training team that trained mediators and US Postal Service employees in the transformative mediation framework, and more recently helped develop a curriculum to train USPS REDRESSTM staff in mediator assessment. He was one of the developers of the process used to evaluate mediators for the designation of Certified Transformative MediatorTM, and is one of the assessors.
His mediation practice has primarily been in the workplace and community arenas.
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William F. Askin wmaskin@yahoo.com
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1047 McKinney Lane
Pittsburgh,
PA
15220
Certified Transformative Mediator®
Trained to work alone or with co-mediators.
Mediate neighborhood and community disputes.
Over five years experience facilitating outdoor
adventure activities. Includes facilitating low and
high ropes course activities for individuals and
groups. These challenge activities are designed to
promote such qualities as self-awareness, problem
solving, communication improvement, teambuilding,
leadership, self-care, fun.
I can facilitate your group or mediate your conflict
with your particular goals in mind.
My formal training includes degrees in meteorology,
law, environmental law; plus a mediation certification
from the Institute for the Study of Conflict
Transformation. Knowlege fields include physics,
math, law and environmental law, law practice, land
use and property. I have work experience in radio and
TV production and radio programming.
I have mediated employee disputes for the
Transportation Security Administration.
I maintain a solo practice of law in Pennsylvania,
with about 3/4 devoted to real property related
issues. I also teach paralegal classes, including
Legal Research, Contracts, Bankruptcy, Evidence, Law
Office Management. In spare time, I head for the
adventure courses and facilitate individuals and
groups for Challenge by Choice and the Hero\'s Journey
Programs.
"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in
overcoming it." - Moliere.
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Winnie Backlund wgbacklund@aol.com
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2331 Merel Drive
Hatfield,
PA
19440
Phone: 215-822-8135
Fax: 215-822-1020
Cell: 215-694-5856
Website: www.mediation-services.org
Resume: Winnie Backlund resume
Winnie Backlund is currently the Director of Mediation and Training for Montgomery County Mediation Center (MCMC), Norristown, PA, a community mediation center that provides mediation, facilitation, and training. For ten years prior to her current position she served as Executive Director of MCMC. She has extensive experience and training in the field of conflict resolution and mediation and has been a mediator for community, family, organizational and workplace disputes since 1987. As an experienced conflict resolution trainer and educator, Ms Backlund presents mediation and conflict resolution programs locally, state wide and nationally for various organizations.
Ms Backlund is a member of the Court Custody Mediation Advisory Panel in Montgomery County, PA. and a Court Approved Mediator Supervisor. She was the Conference Coordinator for the First National Conference on Transformative Mediation "Looking Back, Looking Forward: Ten Years After the Promise of Mediation" held in Philadelphia, PA, November 2004. Ms Backlund is past president of Pennsylvania Council of Mediators (PCM), former editor of PCM's newsletter, "The Report," and was a participant of the Model Standards Symposium that developed the "Model Standards of Practice for Family and Divorce Mediation" published in 2000.
Prior to focusing her professional activities to the field of mediation and conflict resolution, Ms. Backlund was a management consultant to national and international companies as well as Assistant Professor of Psychology, adjunct faculty member of Philadelphia University and Montgomery County Community College. She earned a B.A in Psychology from Ithaca College and M.Ed. in Counseling from Antioch University.
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Patricia , R. Bass midwestadr@yahoo.com
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Patricia , R., Bass, Associate
5405 Louden Lane
Madison,
WI
53716
Phone: 571-227-2358
Resume: Patricia , R. Bass resume
Patricia "Trisch" Bass, CEO Comprehensive Communications Systems (www.comprehensive-communications-systems.com), a consulting, coaching, and service provider of communication models tailored to individual business needs based on empowerment and recognition by and between individuals and business. Ms. Bass is a Certified Transformative Mediator, an Associate of the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation (www.transformativemediation.org), a life time member of AFCC (Association of Family and Conciliation Courts) and a member of Wisconsin Association of Mediators. She has served as transformative mediator in family court matters, employment and business conflict concerns and routinely develops coaching processes for managers and supervisors utilizing empowerment and recognition in dealing with workplace concerns.
Between 1998 and 2003, Ms. Bass supported the USPS REDRESS (www.usps.gov/redress) program. It was during this timeframe that she started modeling a comprehensive communications model based solely on the underpinnings of empowerment and recognition. During 2003 Ms. Bass collaborated with the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation developing and implementing the 2nd generation transformative mediation training and coaching – co-training with the ISCT across the country. In December 2003, Ms. Bass joined the Office of Civil Rights and Liberties of the Transportation Security Administration as the Manager Informal and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ARC – Alternative Resolutions to Conflict) process and successfully implemented an ADR program based on the transformative mediation principles.
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Herman Bingham hbbingham@comcast.net
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1191 Halfmoon Gate
Lake in the Hills,
IL
60156
Phone: (847) 854-5579
Resume: Herman Bingham resume
HERMAN BINGHAM, trainer, assessor and coach has fifteen year's ADR experience in a large, diverse and multi-union company. He mediates workplace conflicts exclusively and also provides disputants with pre-mediation preparation and in-session conflict resolution coaching.
Herman is former Manager, EEO Dispute Resolution for the US Postal Service's Chicago District, where he directed its REDRESS® program. Recognized in 2007 for assuring the quality of transformative mediation services to over 30,000 postal employees, Herman continues to train and coach mediators who want to practice transformative mediation with consistency and confidence.
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Carol V. Bloom carol_bloom@hotmail.com
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2705 South Brush Street
Graton,
CA
95444
Phone: (707) 829-1893
Fax: (707) 829-1893
Carol V. Bloom is a highly experienced mediator and trainer in California. She has specialized in Transformative Mediation since 1998, specializing in employment related disputes. Carol is a contract mediator with the U.S. Postal Service - REDRESS, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration and a California agency that offers mediation services for Medicare beneficiaries and health care providers. Carol also provides private sector workplace, business, family, neighborhood, community and victim-offender mediation, as well as training and facilitation services. Carol has also worked as a mediator and trainer internationally in Europe and the Balkans, and is particularly interested in cross cultural mediation and conflict transformation.
Carol began training professional and volunteer mediators in Transformative Mediation in the Netherlands in 2002. She currently provides training services in the Netherlands twice a year with a number of mediation training institutes, including the Amsterdams ADR Instituut, the Centrum voor Conflicthantering, and the Dutch association of family attorney mediators (VVAS). She has been published in the Dutch journal of mediation, Tijdschrift Conflicthantering, and to a chapter by Hugo Prein on Transformative Mediation in the 3rd edition of the Dutch Mediation Handbook in 2005.
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Christine Curci
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168 Range Road
Cumberland,
ME
04021
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Ellen J. DeBenedetti edebened@yahoo.com
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5860 Marlborough Ave
Pittsburgh,
PA
15217
Phone: 412-298-4147
Fax: 412-365-0600
Resume: Ellen J. DeBenedetti resume
Ellen J. DeBenedetti has been a mediator since 1991. She began her career in
mediation at a community mediation center and is now a mediator for the: Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission, United States Postal Service, PA Department
of Education (Special Education mediations), National Association of Security
Dealers, Key Bridge Foundation (Department of Justice mediations about the
Americans With Disabilities Act), Pittsburgh Mediation Center, the Institute
for the Study of Conflict Transformation, Transportation Safety Administration,
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and US District Court Western
Division. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, She is also the training
coordinator at The Pittsburgh Mediation Center, where her primary
responsibilities include training in Conflict Management, Mediation, Team
Building and Diversity issues, and mediating some of the more complex and
multi-party mediations. In addition to her career in mediation, Ellen was a
special education teacher for 20 years. She views mediation as an opportunity
for the people involved to have a constructive conversation and to make
decisions about the issues that they face.
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Aurora Denny auroradenny@netscape.net
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2680 Lynch Canyon Road
Bradley,
CA
93426
Phone: (805) 472-9036
Types of mediation practiced: I have experience mediating family, civil, victim-offender, community, and workplace mediations. I am willing to work with other types of conflict as well, since I believe that the basic human experience of conflict is much the same regardless of the circumstance from which it originates.
Born and raised on California's central coast, I have been practicing mediation in that area since 1997. I have practiced exclusively in the Transformative framework since 1999, and have mediated hundreds of cases to date. I have had the honor and good fortune to learn from several leaders in the Transformative mediation field, including Baruch Bush, Joseph Folger, Sally Pope, Lou Ann Lucke and others. Advanced trainings and ongoing study groups have allowed me to spend dozens of hours exploring underlying values and beliefs of Transformative mediation, and to look deeply at possibilities for practice. I have traveled to North Dakota and London, England for internships with Transformative mediation programs, which served to deepen my understanding of possibilities for both mediation practice and the teaching and training of Transformative mediation. I enjoy mediating different types of conflict and working with a variety of people. The opportunity to work with people in this way seems to me to be a great honor as well as a great responsibility.
I speak Spanish as well as English and have conducted a number of mediations in Spanish. Me interesa mucho la práctica de la mediación transfromativa en español, y me gustaría comunicarme con otras personas trabajando en este campo. Tengo experiencia con mediaciones en español y mediaciones inglés-español con interprete.
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Sandra L. Fenton s1fenton@students.latrobe.edu.au
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262 Martin Building, School of Law, La Trobe University
Victoria,
Australia
3086
Phone: +61-3-9479-1168
Fax: +61-3-9479-1607
Cell: +61-0428-358-242
Resume: Sandra L. Fenton resume
My role is to support clients gain clarity about their situation, what options they have and what decisions they want to make.
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Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation
314 Cambridge Street
Grand Forks, ND 58203
701.777.2022
fax: 701.777.6184
email: isct@und.nodak.edu.
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