MBBI Founders' Conversation between Kenneth Cloke and Robert Creo

SCMA Webinar: The Role of Mediators in Challenging Times

National Association for Community Mediation.

Neutrality Trap: The Danger of Staying Silent

How to Design, Organize, and Facilitate Dialogues over Difficult, Divisive, and Dangerous Issues

Climate Change and the Pandemic

Video Gallery

The River's Edge: SEPARATE PERSON FROM PROBLEM

The River's Edge: INTERRUPTING QUESTIONS

Keynote at the 2018 Southern California Mediation Association Conference

For those who weren't able to attend the 2018 Annual Conference, we've decided to give a you a little taste of what you missed! This incredible opening plenary given by Keynote Speaker Ken Cloke on the subject matter of his latest book, "Politics, Dialogue and the Evolution of Democracy" was timely, informative and so inspiring.

The Politics of Conflict and the Conflict of Politics: How to Think about and Engage in Political Conflicts (2018)

We have just gone through an exhausting election, filled with hostility, hatred and personal attacks, and while half the country is upset and disappointed that they lost, the other half understands that it could have gone the other way, and that they might now be the ones feeling upset and disappointed.

How, then, do we talk to each other about difficult and dangerous issues, ones that we feel most strongly about and are prepared to argue passionately over? How do we exercise our responsibility as citizens without losing what we’ve learned as conflict resolvers? How do we advocate for what we believe in without becoming biased and adversarial? What is an interest-based form of political discourse? What skills do we require for democracy to work? How do we design, organize and facilitate dialogues over political issues? How do we conduct meaningful discussions of highly contentious, values-based topics without degenerating into pointless diatribes? What are the limits of collaboration in political conflict? How do we respond democratically and humanely to authoritarian and inhumane actions? How do we build trust between adversaries in difficult circumstances where time is limited, history is long, and positions have hardened? And how can we “be the change” we want to see in the world, socially, personally, politically and professionally? For a set of PowerPoint slides on the topic, click here. For a YouTube video of a plenary speech given to the Southern California Mediation Association, click here.

Ken Cloke: Conversations in Edinburgh On a Saturday morning in Edinburgh in September 2017, Ken Cloke, one of the leading writers and thinkers in the field of conflict, joined with the founder and senior mediator of Core Solutions (and founder of Collaborative Scotland), John Sturrock, for a conversation about conflict, why it happens and how we all deal with it.

Co-parenting and Mediation (2017)

Two short interviews conducted by coParenter.org on the conflicts experienced by parents in co-parenting children after divorce or separation, together with a number of ideas, suggestions, techniques, and methods of resolution.

On Win-Win Thinking

On Child Centric Resolution

Uploaded by coParenter on 2017-09-27.

The #1 coParenting App designed to help separated, divorced, and never-married parents communicate, manage, and organize everyday coParenting responsibilities. With our joint custody calendars, parenting plans, custody schedules, direct messaging feature, check-in button, one-on-one coaching and mediation tools, our aim is to help coParents put their kid at the center, not in the middle.

The Future of Mediation (2013)

The use of mediation has grown and evolved over last the thirty years. As the “founders” begin to retire and new voices emerge, what is the future of mediation from a global perspective? I offer my views on this topic at the University of Hawaii Law School (2013). Note that you will need to click on the Vimeo link to watch it there, due to privacy settings preventing direct viewing on this page.

The use of mediation has grown and evolved over last the thirty years. As the “founders” begin to retire and new voices emerge, what is the future of mediation from a global perspective? Ken Cloke is a well known figure in the field of conflict resolution with extensive experience nationally. He is the Director of the Center for Dispute Resolution in Santa Monica, California. Wearing the hats of mediator, arbitrator, attorney, coach, consultant, and trainer, he also specializes in resolving complex multi-party conflicts including community, grievance and workplace disputes, collective bargaining negotiations, organizational and school conflicts, sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuits, and public policy disputes. Ken also provides services in designing preventative conflict resolution systems for organizations. He is the author of numerous books and articles including the just published The Dance of Opposites: Explorations in Mediation, Dialogue and Conflict Resolution Systems. Sponsored by the Hawaii State Bar Association - ADR Section, Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resoluation, and the Mediation Center of the Pacific Special thanks to: The Association for Conflict Resoluation - Hawaii Chapter, Accord3.0, and the William S. Richardson School of Law.

Mediators Beyond Borders International's History and Founding Vision "Imagine parachuting conflict resolvers into war zones"

Mediators Beyond Borders Congress (2012)

A vision for the future of mediation.

Ken Cloke at Regis University #2

Lecture at Regis University (2008)

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3
Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6
Part 7 - Part 8 - Part 9

This is a full interview with Ken Cloke, prolific author and Founder of Mediators Beyond Borders, filmed for the Mediate.com "Eye of the Storm" series.

Views from the Eye of the Storm: Ken Cloke

An interview by Robert Benjamin, as part of Mediate.com's 'Views from the Eye of the Storm' Video Series. Amongst the topics covered: 6 places where conflicts occur, the purpose of training, simulating sincerity as a way of becoming more sincere, self-reflecting as a mediator.

Ken Cloak, President of Mediators Beyond Borders - Vision for the United Nations Climate Change Conference

Before the United Nations Climate Change Conference

My vision for Mediators Beyond Borders's presence at the United Nations Climate Change Conference.

On the qualities of the mediator, humility and the uncertainty of life

from a speech in 2012

On the role of Uncertainty

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