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12/20/2023

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Happy Holidays!

12/22/2021

Wishing all of our clients, colleagues, family and friends a wonderful Holiday Season and a Happy New Year!

09/02/2021

The models of “American Gothic” stand next to the painting, c. 1935.

12/24/2020

Point Counter Point would like to take this time to wish all of our friends, family, associates, and colleagues a wonderful Holiday Season and a very Happy New Year! Though 2020 has been a difficult year for all, we are optimistic 2021 will bring a brighter and healthier future. Take care and stay safe!

12/25/2019

Point Counter Point Resolution Consultants would like to wish all of our friends, clients, and family a Joyful Holiday Season and a Safe and Happy New Year!

07/26/2019

Another new article...

We commonly receive phone calls from individuals wondering how to commence a mediation or arbitration process. This articles discusses some of the factors to consider when engaging in alternative dispute resolution.

12/20/2018

Wishing a Happy Holiday Season and Happy New Year to all of our family, friends and colleagues!!

07/17/2018

A new article at Point Counter Point

A Peaceful Protest – An Opportunity for Public Mediation POINT COUNTER POINTPublished by Rodger W. Linka in Public Mediation · 17 July 2018 It began as a protest in February following the acquittal in a murder case surrounding the death of Colton Bushie in Saskatchewan and Tina Fontaine in Manito...

03/30/2018

I am off to Boston on Sunday to take a course from the Harvard Law School, Program on Negotiation. The Master Class in Negotiation. As usual, they loaded us with reading to do before we get there. Excited!

02/25/2018

Greetings folks.

I thought I would let you know what I am doing. I am currently in the middle of an online seminar, 6 months in duration with William Ury and Thomas Hubl. I am sure most of you know William Ury - the Getting to Yes guy. I did not know Thomas Hubl, but I can tell he has a huge following. He is a bit more challenging to put in a box. I guess you would call him a spiritual leader.

The course is called Meditate and Mediate and there are 690 people from accross the world that beam into the sessions. It is a remarkable course. For starters, it is a pleasure to listen to William talk about getting to yes, the power of a postive No, going to the balcony and reframing, making the pie bigger. All stuff we learned about last June.

We also learned about clearing one's mind. Rinsing oneself of our own concerns, allowing us to be clear and centred. That is where meditation comes in. Thomas pushes my buttons. I used to meditate as a kid and now it is good to start up the discipline again. It works. I fee better, more focused when it is part of my life. Thomas however speaks of higher minded things. He beleives in world wide meditation as a means of achieving peace. His followers engage in this all over the world.

William's teaching is that we are part of the "third way". As mediators we step into a dispute where we are faced with two opposing "ways". We are the third way. We are peacemakers. In the seminar, William talks about his work with the Columbian government regarding their decades old civil war. He also has been engaged in mediation efforts with North Korea.

Yesterday I watched an added video where Thomas and WIlliam met online with Dr. Flavia Valguista, a professor of law at the University of Buenos Aries. Her talk was to discuss what she called "cosmic law". I might have called it universal law, but her point is that all law is grounded in love. (Stay with me). Foundational laws that support love of children, family, partners, fairness in the broadest sense, and justice. She called this vertical or cosmic law and says that it is the foundation of the law of all cultures, whether Indigenous, or European, Muslim, Bhuddist or Chrisian. William characterised this as laws founded in Yes. Horizontal laws are laws of No. This are the "thou shalt not" kinds of negative laws that help us preserve cosmic law.

I am intrigued. As members of the third way, isn't it our role to allow people in dispute to accept the cosmic law. If we can pull our clients away from their dispute and allow them to understand common good.

12/23/2017

Wishing all of our family, friends and colleagues a healthy, happy and safe Holiday Season and a safe and prosperous New Year

10/03/2017

Common questions we are asked about mediation and arbitration are:

- What's the difference between mediation and arbitration? and
- How long does it take?

Please check out my article at:

http://www.pointcounterpoint.ca/news.html