Getting Ready to Mediate: A Blueprint for Success
Let UWWM founding partner John Upchurch help you connect the dots for an efficient and productive mediation. It may involve building a better foundation, tearing down some walls and an overall vision for the end game. Whatever your concern, John will... Read More
Conditional Offers
In this series principal Rodney A. Max discusses “breaking impasse” as it relates to closing the deal. In complex cases (including mass torts and... Read More
Court Direction
In this series principal Rodney A. Max discusses “breaking impasse” as it relates to closing the deal. In complex cases (including mass torts and... Read More
Understanding Family Dynamics
“How can I better understand family dynamics?”
First, understand family systems.
Begin by reading, "Family Ties that Bind" by Roland W.... Read More
How Will I Be Remembered? Messages and Metamessages
I’m in the de-clutter mode, discarding accumulated stuff to spare my survivors someday sorting through it. The poet Keith Douglas had it right: “Simplify me when I am dead.” Sending outdated professional files to the shredder has been easy, satisfyin... Read More
MIDDLE PASSAGE: FROM MISERY TO MEANING IN MIDLIFE
Gerald Le Van’s Notes on James Hollis’ “The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Mid-life” Inner City Books, Toronto, 1993. ollis is a psychologist and heads the Jungian Society in Houston, Texas. He writes well but some readers may be turned of... Read More