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		<title>Are you ready for the unexpected?</title>
		<link>http://www.collaborativejourneys.com/2012/01/23/are-you-ready-for-the-unexpected/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ziegler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you respond when someone throws a wrench into your day? Here’s how one classical musician responded, after a Nokia ring tone went off in the middle of his performance… (thanks to my local fiddler/composer friend, Paul Gitlitz, for bringing this to my attention). (If the video not displaying, click here) I found this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U Connect: The Art of Making Connections to Resolve Disputes</title>
		<link>http://www.collaborativejourneys.com/2012/01/17/u-connect-the-art-of-making-connections-to-resolve-disputes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ziegler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I published my 2nd e-book this week, on Amazon.  It&#8217;s titled: U Connect: The Art of Making Connections to Resolve Disputes.  It&#8217;s a consolidation of some my observations, along with insights I&#8217;ve culled from others, around &#8220;making connections&#8221;. Here’s the Table of Contents and here&#8217;s the Introduction section: “Disputes happen. How do we respond? One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mediation ‘Sweet Spot’</title>
		<link>http://www.collaborativejourneys.com/2012/01/06/the-mediation-%e2%80%98sweet-spot%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://www.collaborativejourneys.com/2012/01/06/the-mediation-%e2%80%98sweet-spot%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 04:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ziegler</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.collaborativejourneys.com/?p=8366</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A mediation is like a good holiday.   Here&#8217;s why&#8230; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- A weekend vacation trip does not give enough time to find the holiday ‘sweet spot&#8217;. Bruce Kirkby wrote a great article in last weekend’s Globe &#38; Mail about the holiday ‘sweet spot’.  As a veteran outdoors trip guide, he knows all about the magic and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Holiday Gift Book Ideas for the “Mediator” in Your Life</title>
		<link>http://www.collaborativejourneys.com/2011/12/15/10-holiday-book-ideas-for-the-mediator-in-your-life/</link>
		<comments>http://www.collaborativejourneys.com/2011/12/15/10-holiday-book-ideas-for-the-mediator-in-your-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ziegler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoy reading books.  They are a safe way to explore the ideas and works of others.   And, a really good book is inspiring.  It seems to connect on a personal and emotional level; a connection that can motivate one to further thought and action. Here are ten of the books I read in 2011, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I “don’t know” and I’m going to run with that</title>
		<link>http://www.collaborativejourneys.com/2011/12/09/i-%e2%80%9cdon%e2%80%99t-know%e2%80%9d-and-i%e2%80%99m-going-to-run-with-that/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ziegler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I felt crappy even before the face-to-face mediation began, this week.  Fighting some seasonal bug, I was  hoping the mediation would be a short one, no matter the outcome, and I would soon be on my way home, to a hot apple cider and a bed. It was not a short one.  Yet, what kept [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cloud and Mobile are the Mediator’s future office</title>
		<link>http://www.collaborativejourneys.com/2011/12/06/the-cloud-and-mobile-are-the-mediator%e2%80%99s-future-office/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ziegler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I mediated a trans-national business dispute last week.  The mediation took place over several days, and was conducted online, over the Internet.  There was zero physical paper exchanged.  I worked from my laptop, from my home office.  Essentially, all the software I used was based in the “Cloud”, and either free or low-cost.   I&#8217;m grateful. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s a Mediator’s World</title>
		<link>http://www.collaborativejourneys.com/2011/10/18/it%e2%80%99s-a-mediator%e2%80%99s-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.collaborativejourneys.com/2011/10/18/it%e2%80%99s-a-mediator%e2%80%99s-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ziegler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent yesterday in Vancouver, at an all-day gathering with my court mediation colleagues.   Part information sharing, part community building, always a learning experience&#8230; these types of get-together I really enjoy. There were a number of presenters during the day.  I was one of them, on the topic of Collaborating on Business Development.  That was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diversity: A pathway to connection, common ground and innovation</title>
		<link>http://www.collaborativejourneys.com/2011/10/01/diversity-a-pathway-to-connection-common-ground-and-innovation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.collaborativejourneys.com/2011/10/01/diversity-a-pathway-to-connection-common-ground-and-innovation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 09:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ziegler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diversity is a hallmark of innovative teams.  One of the best ways to expand your own problem-solving capabilities is to diversify; apply a different lens, different perspective, to the problem. Traditional pathways If you&#8217;re a facilitator, you know how to build bridges between people’s differences, find common ground, as a stepping stone to joint solutions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grandmothers and Collaborative Learning</title>
		<link>http://www.collaborativejourneys.com/2011/08/22/grandmothers-and-collaborative-learning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.collaborativejourneys.com/2011/08/22/grandmothers-and-collaborative-learning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ziegler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Note: I originally wrote this post, and had it posted a couple of months back, as a guest blogger on Lorie Vela’s excellent Collaboration Ideas blog.  Thanks Lorie.  With children shortly returning to school, and parents, and others, occupied by thoughts of "good learning", I thought it might be timely to post it again, here.] [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Dispute Resolution Questions asked by a Rainbow Mediator</title>
		<link>http://www.collaborativejourneys.com/2011/08/09/10-dispute-resolution-questions-asked-by-a-rainbow-mediator/</link>
		<comments>http://www.collaborativejourneys.com/2011/08/09/10-dispute-resolution-questions-asked-by-a-rainbow-mediator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ziegler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many ways to resolve disputes.  Do a quick global tour of the dispute resolution landscape, and you’ll see just how many.  It’s as if there is a rainbow of options.  The rainbow mediator acknowledges the diverse approaches to resolution, and incorporates key elements into her/his practice.  Kind of a think global, act local. [...]]]></description>
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