You can also choose colour of dice and background. Dice Rolleroffers just what you’d expect: the option to roll one, two or three dice.Never mind, you probably have your cell phone and lots of tiebreaker apps available! But you can only carry so many things around with you from mediation to mediation, and dice didn’t make it into the mediation kit. You quite like the idea of offering parties the option to roll dice to break a small deadlock – typically some final item like court filing fees that has suddenly come back to the parties’ attention when everything else is worked out satisfactorily. Hopefully this list will provide a jolt for a few mediators simply to consider the many different ways that apps might be of use in a mediation. I know of a few mediators using apps in their work, but most of the folks I’ve spoken to are surprised by the very idea. I’m framing the following list of apps as jolts for mediation – in that many are recommended specifically as a tool for breaking impasse in the mediation room – but also as a jolt for mediators. I’m hopeful that others will add their favourite apps to the list I’ve created below! Jolts for Mediation and Mediators It looks like a fairly high percentage of the apps are available for other operating systems – or there is a very comparable (if untested by me) app that might well serve the same purpose. I’m an iPhone and iPad user, so my list of favourite mediation apps is decidedly “iCentric”.
Sometimes, however, a little technological jolt is just what it takes to kickstart a discussion, provide a tool for reflection, or settle a minor distributive dispute. Technology can certainly act as “jolt” – perhaps all the more so for the digital immigrant.)Īnd okay, mediation apps for impasse breaking may not quite be going “after it with a club” as the quote above suggests, but … I get the impression from several friends that pulling out a smart phone or a tablet during a mediation may seem just as counter-intuitive at first blush as Jack London’s assertion that inspiration might come best to those actively chasing it. ( Ben Ziegler and I have been exchanging preliminary thoughts about a session we will be presenting at the Northwest Dispute Resolution Conference on “digital natives” and “digital immigrants” in mediation, so this post is definitely partly inspired by those exchanges. This post is for everyone with an unused iTunes gift card lying around or for mediators wanting to dabble in new technology.
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