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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Are we too cynical in thinking that recent calls for AI regulation have nothing to do a desire to slow down development as a safety measure, but everything to do with raising barriers to market entry against new competitors?

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

In moments of escalating conflict, it is easy for public commentary to persuade us that the space for agreement has closed. I think part of our work is to resist that conclusion too quickly. andrew267.substack.com/p/hope-remai...

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Hope Remains at Hormuz

Hope for Peace — a reflection on building peace

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

How do we find a way back to negotiation when earlier agreements fail? In this Field Note, I describe what I call the practice of return - a discipline that forms part of the #ImaginativeMediator’s work of accompaniment in the accord-building process. andrew267.substack.com/p/the-imagin...

A pull quote card for The Imaginative Mediator's Field Notes from Post-Law Peacemaking. It features a fruited olive branch. The fruit is plump and green. The quote reads: "“A practice of return comprises the mediator’s work of accompaniment in the accord-building process at those moments when the parties encounter difficulty in taking the next step and when they may face a choice of whether to continue or abandon the process.” The footer reads: "IM/029 Andrew C. Wood".

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Nur Shahir, PhD (Hire me!) @gigiomics.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

tldr: I got caught but I swear I'm a real scientist

After an AI detector classified one of my opinion pieces as entirely AI-generated, I found myself questioning where authorship ends, where expertise begins and what readers deserve to know.

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In this Field Note, we explored the idea of accord-memory—the ability to recall, into the conflict field, memory of a future that the parties had previously imagined together. andrew267.substack.com/p/the-imagin... #ADRDesign #AccordBuilding #TheImaginativeMediator

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Using the Hormuz negotiations as an illustration, this field note highlights the importance of asking what the parties had previously been able to accommodate, what may have changed, and whether earlier accords can help reveal a path toward renewed response. andrew267.substack.com/p/the-imagin...

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The Imaginative Mediator IM/028: Accord Memory and a Path Paved with Intent

A field note on the evolving method of accord building

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This field note addresses a practical question in conflict resolution: "Once a space for accord has opened, how do we stop it from closing too soon?" It references negotiations for the opening of the Strait of Hormuz and the Islamabad MoU reached in June. andrew267.substack.com/p/the-imagin...

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The Imaginative Mediator IM/027: Protecting the Space for Accord

Holding Open the Conditions of Response

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

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Hope Remains at Hormuz

Hope for Peace — a reflection on building peace

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Uniting Church in Australia @unitingchurchau.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The Uniting Church is seeking a visionary leader to serve as 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿, 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘆 & 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻. This key role will help shape the Church’s future by strengthening our identity, fostering unity, amplifying our shared story and advancing the Assembly Strategy 2026–31. Find out more: tinyurl.com/uca-dim

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

This Field Note broadens the Accord-Building inquiry from moral discord to active fields of conflict. It suggests that discord may also sound in legal, transactional, and civic fields. #TheImaginativeMediator open.substack.com/pub/andrew26...

Title card for Field Note IM/024: The Imaginative Mediator: Turning Toward the Sound of Discord.

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

In this field note, I explore how a claim that Accord-Building addresses moral discord in the conflict field sounds in three difficult and discomforting media texts. open.substack.com/pub/andrew26...

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The Imaginative Mediator IM/023A: Three Texts in Moral Discord

How public texts challenge our method of Accord-Building. A Working Brief.

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The question I am working with here is this: "What happens to moral responsiveness when the person is first encountered through an administrative category, and the category is treated as if it has already settled what may be seen, asked, or done?" open.substack.com/pub/andrew26...

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The Imaginative Mediator IM/021A: Holding Hope Open - Administrative Legibility & the Flattened Person

A Working Brief

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

It seems that I am now writing about writing. That’s not to say that I’m telling you how you should write; only that I thought it necessary to share and open to feedback a new technique I am experimenting with. substack.com/profile/3294...

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It seems that I am now writing about writing. That’s not to say that I’m telling you how you should write; only that I thought it necessary to share and open to reflection and feedback a new technique...

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Any party "of the people" that needs to spend $3 billion on an election campaign would appear to have drifted somewhat from its support base.

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

This anniversary post traces my work from veterans’ mediation design & structured negotiation to the current challenge of shaping mediation from its moral core outwards. Thank you to all who’ve read, followed, encouraged, or subscribed. andrew267.substack.com/p/first-anni...

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First Anniversary Post

What I’ve been doing over the past 12 months, and what may now be emerging

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Describing what #mediation may become when the conflict field is administrative ...; when what is at stake includes needs, cares, responsibilities, legitimacy, and future coexistence; and when the work required is ... accompaniment through a damaged shared world. open.substack.com/pub/andrew26...

A Pull Quote card featuring a fruited olive branch. The fruit is plump and green. The title reads: "The Imaginative Mediator: Field Notes from Post-Law Peacemaking." The quote is: "If conflict may often be understood not simply as a clash of interests, but as something that intensifies and becomes destructive when care breaks down, then mediation may be understood more deeply as a practice of tracing and responding to breakdowns in attentiveness, responsibility, competence, and responsiveness." The footer reads "IM/012. Andrew C. Wood"

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Anne Shuttee @texmolly.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

“If you were swept off the streets in vans by secret police wearing masks; if your initiation into detention involved transit camps meant to hide your departure and effectively disappear you from legal help, temporarily or forever; . . . /1 degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/what-count...

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What counts as a "concentration camp"?

Links to the podcast, along with some thoughts on and for Jake Tapper.

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Richard Manley-Tannis @p3rlucidus.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

We don't know until appointed time when in response to Other's suffering we must with great resolve model Hope's eternal promise in Shadow'd Apathy ________ Inspired by the fortitude of tenacious determination … #MicroPoetry #140Characters #UCCan #ShineOn adeaconsmusing.ca

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

This is the first of 3 posts in which I reflect on the place of #friendship in #mediation. I start with a retelling of the well-known teaching story, "The 17 Camels". In my version there are only 15 camels. What flows from that we'll discuss in my next post. open.substack.com/pub/andrew26...

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The Imaginative Mediator IM/003

A Teaching Story and the Question of Friendship

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

This short article is a grateful acknowledgement and more thorough response to a reader, who asked an insightful question that challenged me to set out a little of the learning design approach I have used in building WorkAccord Learning. www.linkedin.com/pulse/thank-...

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Thank You to a Reader Who Asked a Challenging and Insightful Question

Yesterday, I published a LinkedIn post for WorkAccord Learning, announcing a new project developing a comprehensive learning library around the Australian Government’s Scheme for Compensation for Detr...

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I wonder if, beyond the politics of Left or Right, we are actually starting to see the emergence of a new politics of Affordability and whether that might be the real significance of the NYC Mayoral race. If so, how far might those ripples extend? #Affordabiity #NewPolitics #NYC

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

What can fairy tales tell us about mediation? In this Field Note, I reflect on Vigen Gourian’s exposition of Margery Williams’ "The Velveteen Rabbit, or How Toys Become Real" and sketch out some connections to mediation as a practice of integrative peacemaking. andrew267.substack.com/p/the-imagin...

A watercolor illustration of the Velveteen Rabbit. The illustration is by William Nicholson and shoes the rabbit on a mound of grass with ferns and flowers. The sky behind is gold and grey. The title of the illustration is "Spring Time".

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

This Field Note opens a series exploring what it means to practise mediation with moral imagination inside the integrative-law tradition. andrew267.substack.com/p/the-imagin... #IntegrativeLaw #MoralImagination #ADRDesign #TheImaginativeMediator

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The Imaginative Mediator

Integrative Law and the Moral Imagination

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Andy C. Wood @woodac.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Lately, I've been reflecting on my #DisputeResolution work as something closely related to #LearningDesign, allowing us to bring the human dimensions of a dispute to light and to create space for collaborative and care-full attentiveness, response, and redress. open.substack.com/pub/andrew26...

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Reflections on Post-Law Practice

A Stretch Toward Moral Imagination

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Andy C. Wood @woodac.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

It's not easy to model the trust expected of others when drafting an invitation to negotiate. Often, it goes against instinct and training. It might also set up the need for an internal negotiation with your own client. www.linkedin.com/pulse/readin... @lflegal.bsky.social #StructuredNegotiation

Pull quote on a square orange background: "Every legal instinct might be to fight on in the hope or expectation of forcing a settlement under the pressure of litigation. The claimant might be urging you to do precisely that – and maybe not even in hope of securing a settlement, but out of a deeper need to assert identity, seeking recognition. " Andrew C. Wood. Reading Lainey Feingold's (2021) "Structured Negotiation: A Winning Alternative to Lawsuits" - 2nd Edition (Cont'd)

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Thinking, this week, about how we can build and nurture the #StructuredNegotiation mindset. As learning designers, we’d like to think that it would be possible to design a program that could support the development of a significant change in attitude. open.substack.com/pub/andrew26...

Pull quote on a mottles, grey, square background: "Yet these approaches to the problem suggest that Structured Negotiation practitioners must be advocates for the process as well as advocates for the client and that the toughest negotiation of all may, at times, be the internal negotiation that takes place within the client team." Andrew C. Wood. Reading Lainey Feingold's (2021) Structured Negotiation: A wimming Alternative to LAwsuits - 2nd edition (Cont's)"

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Andy C. Wood @woodac.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

In our reading of Lainey Feingold's (2021) Structured Negotiation 2nd ed, we are discovering that “the Right Thing to Do” may be established in relational rather than in legal space. open.substack.com/pub/andrew26... @lflegal.bsky.social #StructuredNegotiation #ADRDesign

A pull quote on a square, mottled, grey background: "- the right thing to do is not always self-evident. It can be buried beneath tecvhnical exclusions, discretionary silences, historical blind spots, or out-of-scope policy framings. Often, no one in the system feels authorised to name it, let alone act on it." Andrew C Wood. Reading Lainey Feingold's (2021) "Structured Negotiation: A Winning Alternative to Lawsuits" - 2nd Edition (Cont'd.)

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I used to think we were mediating disputes; but perhaps we are mediating peace. open.substack.com/pub/andrew26...

Pull quote on square mottled grey background. "What is beginning to emerge in our work is an extended framework for mediated intervention - a way of being present in the midst of conflict, before the sharp edges form, and before formal remedies close in". Andrew C Wood

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The latest in my series of 'Field Notes from Post-Law Peacemaking' delves further into the ways in which mediation and structured negotiation might work together to serve the requirements of relational justice. open.substack.com/pub/andrew26... #mediation #structurednegotiation #VeteranSupport

Pull quote on a dappled, grey, square background, "mediation, at its best, is not simply an event, but a care-full presence. A pressence that holds space for people in their meaning-making" Andrew C. Wood. Still 'Swimming with the Dolphins'.

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Proof-of-concept testing of our Veterans' Mediation model on a hypothetical "offsetting" challenge, revealed the model's logical sequence for moral repair. open.substack.com/pub/andrew26... #Mediation #VeteranSupport #MoralRepair

A pull-quote on a mottled, grey square background. "In many systems, the sequence is clear: first prove entitlement, then receive remedy. But in this work, the sequence is often reversed: First, the harm must be acknowledged. Then, the relationship must be repaired. Only then, can any remedy be meaningfully received." Andrew C. Wood "Wicked Problems and Institutional Courage - Testing Relational Justice in Veteran Entitlement Offsetting."

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

We launched WorkAccord Learning on the Heartbeat platform earlier this week - quietly, intentionally, and with care. We also adopted a freemium model. This article shares why we made that choice, who this space is for, and what we’re building together. www.linkedin.com/posts/workac...

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

When we tested our Veterans' Mediation model we discovered that "Mediation is more than an event." From:"Wicked Problems and Institutional Courage - Testing Relational Justice in Veteran Entitlement Offsetting." andrew267.substack.com/p/wicked-pro... #Mediation #VeteranSupport #CareEthics

Pull quotye on a grey square background, "The process demonstrated itself as more than a single event:

Intake became orientation.

Pre-mediation became narrative anchoring.

Dialogue became midpoint.

Outcomes became waypoints.

Follow-up became continued care."

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

This latest Field Note is not a critique. It is a mapping. We are not yet asking what ought to be done differently. We are first asking: What exactly is the space we are being asked to enter as mediators? andrew267.substack.com/p/holding-sp... #Mediation #CareEthics #VeteranSupport

Pull quote on a square orange background: "We do not mediate because the law has failed. We mediate because the law has finished - and something still remains to be done." Andrew C. Wood Holding Space where the Quality of Mercy Is Most Definitely Strained."

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Journalising the design process for a veterans' mediation program has been a valuable, reflective discipline. Here I grapple with the challenges: How do we design space for the exercise of institutional courage and moral repair? Why do we need to? andrew267.substack.com/p/finding-ro...

A pull quote from my Substack article: "Finding Room for Courage: Discretion and Relational Justice in Veterans' Disputes". "In commercial and administrative disputes — particularly as matters approach adjudication — relational space collapses, and mediation can become lawyer-driven, risk-averse, and relationally hollow."

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

It has been a worthwhile challenge to journalise the design process for a Veterans' mediation program. Here's a little of what has been directing my thinking abut why such a program needs to be "reparative" rather than "restorative". andrew267.substack.com/p/towards-a-...

A pull quote from my Substack article "Towards a Theory & Practice of Relational Justice in Veterans' Mediation" "… for many veterans:

There is no civilian status quo ante to return to;

Military service has intentionally broken and reshaped their identity, perception, and agency;

Transition has often broken them again—often without reshaping or re-formation.

To ask for restoration may, in some cases, be to ask for a third breaking. Instead, we offer relational justice: not a return, but a recognition; not reconciliation, but responsiveness; not closure, but accompaniment."

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Scottish Community Mediation Centre @sacromediation.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Next month sees the start of a series of online workshops, designed for practising mediators. Our Mediation Theory workshop has been updated and revised and is one of a series of four workshops to be held over the next year. To find out more visit scmc.sacro.org.uk/training-cou...

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

"It's Not Fair!" I’ve been reflecting on what we're saying about “fairness” in our design for a veterans' mediation program. But it’s not so much about what we're saying. It’s more about what we're hearing. And to hear, we have to listen attentively. #justice open.substack.com/pub/andrew26...

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"It's Not Fair!"

A Supplementary Field Note on the Jurisprudential Foundations of WorkAccord's Veterans' ADR Program

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Who Is Talking about Distributive Justice in Veterans’ Mediation Programs? There is talk about military justice, criminal justice and procedural justice — as one might expect. But the near-silence around distributive justice in veterans’ systems is disturbing. open.substack.com/pub/andrew26...

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Towards a Theory & Practice of Relational Justice in Veterans’ Mediation

Mediation Program Design within an Ethic of Care Framework

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Sending out a friendly ‘Coo-eee!’ to all the mediators, conciliators, peacemakers, ADR program designers, collaborative thinkers, and post-lawyers in the woods or on the web. If you’re exploring new paths in conflict resolution, let’s find each other. #mediation #DisputeResolution #PeaceMaking

Person in the woods with hands to mouth as megaphopne shouting, "Coo-eee!". Note: "Coo-eee" is an Australian bush call used to find lost mates

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Towards a Theory & Practice of Relational Justice in Veterans’ Mediation “A mediation program that is not well calibrated to a coherent theory and practice of justice may be little more than a platform for care-less deal-making.” #Mediation #CareEthics #Veterans open.substack.com/pub/andrew26...

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Towards a Theory & Practice of Relational Justice in Veterans’ Mediation

Mediation Program Design within an Ethic of Care Framework

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

ON DESIGNING A VETERANS’ MEDIATION PROGRAM… “I had to ask whether [that] kind of settlement … a compromise that leaves everyone feeling just a little diminished, a little bit “less”—might, in some contexts, do profound harm.” open.substack.com/pub/andrew26...

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Hope Is A Risk We Take—Together

Mediation Program Design Within A Care Framework

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

This week's Field Note from Post-Law Peacemaking: How might we design a #mediation program that could hold disappointment—maintaining and continuing our world, even in the absence of repair— in a way that might allow participants to live in it as well as possible? open.substack.com/pub/andrew26...

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Hope Is A Risk We Take—Together

Mediation Program Design Within A Care Framework

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Two weeks ago, we launched "Field Notes from Post-Law Peacemaking" - a mendicant writing project about designing a veterans' pro bono mediation program within a care framework and trusting to providence. Today, on a day of "small miracles," this came - a quiet reminder that care is never wasted.

An orange square with a note from a newly pledged subscriber, "Your skills are something I believe in, and your thoughts and knowledge have the capability to mediate what ius currently not possible." ANDREW267.SUBSTACK.COM

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WorkAccord @workaccord.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

As a post-law mediator, I am imagining a style of #mediation within a #care framework where #competence is shared - not held exclusively by the mediator - where each participant is allowed to practice care within their own capacity to do so. open.substack.com/pub/andrew26...

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Mediation Program Design Within a Care Framework

Drawing the Circle of Practice

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