Decision Resources

The quality of life in organizations, communities, and families depends upon meaningful connections and working together in committed partnerships.  Difficult decisions and challenging conflicts stretch our capacity to reach within us, reach out, understand needs, come to agreement and arrive at a better place.  I assist my clients to gain clarity, align with their integrity, and take wise action that leads to a positive outcome.

Mission

Enable organizations, groups, and individuals to...

  • - Make good decisions
  • - Transform conflict into peaceful agreement
  • - Develop plans that succeed, and
  • - Work together in effective partnership

Core Beliefs

  • Every difficult decision and conflict is an opportunity for learning and growth.
  • Increased clarity provides the light source so we can see the turning point amidst the difficulty.
  • Clarity increases by learning from the perspective of others through dialogue.
  • Integrity in action comes from conscious alignment of important values with choice.
  • Wisdom in action comes from ethical intention, common sense, and moral imagination.
  • Acts of integrity and wisdom produce positive benefits that outweigh other consequences.

Books

A Field Guide to Good Decisions: Values in Action

We all face tough choices: business executives, community leaders, and family members all struggle with difficult decisions on a daily basis. What we decide reveals what really matters to us; how we decide determines whether we succeed or fail. Developed over twenty years in settings as diverse as hospital bedsides and corporate boardrooms... » READ MORE

The Art of Mediation - 2nd edition

The Art of Mediation" sets the mediation process in context, provides basic definitions, contrasts mediation with other forms of dispute resolution, describes varieties of mediation, and lays out roles and functions of the mediators. The book takes NITA's performance-based training for lawyers and adapts it to training for mediators. The authors... » READ MORE