Inside the Mediation Room
In depth interviews with the top mediators in the world, exploring their best practices in resolving conflict, the values that undergird their practice, and the motivation for the work they do. Hosted by expert mediators Michael and Karen Aurit of the Aurit Center (https://auritmediation.com/about-us/).
Episodes

Monday Jun 27, 2022
Graham Ross - Inside the Mediation Room Episode #4
Monday Jun 27, 2022
Monday Jun 27, 2022
This is the fourth episode of Michael and Karen Aurit's podcast "Inside the Mediation Room," devoted to hearing stories and insights from some of the world's most experienced mediators and dispute resolvers. In this episode their guest is Graham Ross, an experienced mediator and the United Kingdom's leading pioneer in online dispute resolution (ODR). Graham co-founded the first ODR service in the UK, WeCanSettle, and designed the blind bidding software at the heart of the system. Graham subsequently founded TheMediationRoom.com, for whom he designed their online mediation platform. Graham speaks regularly at international conferences on the impact of the law on the Internet and e-commerce and on the application of technology to ADR. Graham was host of the 5th International Conference on Online Dispute Resolution held in Liverpool, UK, in 2007.

Monday Jun 27, 2022
Susan Guthrie and Woody Mosten - Inside the Mediation Room Episode #3
Monday Jun 27, 2022
Monday Jun 27, 2022
This is the third episode of Michael and Karen Aurit's video podcast "Inside The Mediation Room," devoted to hearing stories and insights from some of the world's most experienced mediators and dispute resolvers. In this episode their guests are Susan Guthrie and Woody Mosten, co-founders of Mosten Guthrie Academy: https://mostenguthrie.com/

Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
Bill Eddy - Inside the Mediation Room Episode #2
Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
This is the second episode of Michael and Karen Aurit's video podcast "Inside The Mediation Room," devoted to hearing stories and insights from some of the world's most experienced mediators and dispute resolvers. In this episode their guest is Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq., who developed the high conflict personality theory to explain the driving forces behind people who present the most challenging behaviors. He is an expert on managing disputes involving high conflict situations and 5 high conflict personality types, including a subset of those with narcissistic, borderline, antisocial, histrionic, and paranoid personality disorders. He has trained over 200,000 professionals in 10 countries on understanding and managing high conflict disputes.

Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
Don Saposnek - Inside the Mediation Room Episode #1
Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
This is the first episode of Michael and Karen Aurit's video podcast "Inside The Mediation Room," devoted to hearing stories and insights from some of the world's most experienced mediators and dispute resolvers. In this episode their guest is the legendary Don T. Saposnek, Ph.D., a clinical-child psychologist and family therapist in practice since 1971, and a child custody and family mediator and national and international trainer and consultant in child psychology and mediation since 1977. He was director of the family court services in Santa Cruz County for 17 years and has mediated over 5,000 child custody and visitation cases in both the public and private sectors. He has published extensively in the professional literature on children and families and is the author of a number of books on the topics of children, families, divorce, and mediation.

The Aurit Center
The Aurit Center has been voted Best of Our Valley for Best Family Law in Arizona Foothills Magazine for 6 consecutive years, 2016-2021.
Combining their backgrounds in law and psychology, Michael and Karen have designed a simple, caring, and strategic process that helps people focus on reaching their best agreements and making positive, healthy choices for their children.
Aurit Center mediators have been featured on NBC, CBS, and ABC News, and have been published by Parents Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Marie Claire, and Men’s Health.
Michael and Karen educate professional mediators from around the world, nation, and state, at the Strauss Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine School of Law and the Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law at Arizona State University.