Influences

In addition to applying HNP’s elegant and powerful models in my own practice, I have worked as a senior consultant and trainer for a half-dozen firms affiliated with HNP.

It was love at first role-play when I was trained as a mediator in one of Frank Sander’s multi-door courthouses.  I have mediated—and coached countless others to effectively resolve conflict—ever since.

Particularly useful tools that enable people to explore their assumptions, skillfully ask questions, advocate for themselves effectively, and transform difficult conversations into learning conversations.

Important insights about the central role emotion plays in decision making, well-being, and leadership. Increasingly grounded in neuroscience with each passing year.

Human decision-making is not nearly as rational as we once assumed. The work of Kahneman and Tversky, Greenwald and Banaji demonstrates that unless we work to consciously disrupt unhelpful habits of perception and behavior, we unintentionally make poor decisions and sabotage our best efforts.

Restorative processes repair harm in a manner that meets the needs of those harmed (as well as of the responsible party, their organization, and the wider community).  I worked as a consulting trainer for IIRP for over a decade.

I was trained as a gestalt therapist in my twenties, have practiced meditation for many years, and marvel at how well we do despite how wounded we all are.