Mending Fences
Mending Fences is a podcast about dispute resolution and effective ways to communicate and live across differences. Hosts Patrice Brymner and Jennifer Hawthorne are both family mediators and collaborative law attorneys, but their conversations go well beyond family law. They explore the personal, interpersonal, legal, and cultural impact of conflict. Intro/outro: "North Oakland Extasy," by Squadda B
Mending Fences
GUEST: David Hoffman on Virtual Practice and Internal Family Systems.
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Patrice Brymner
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Season 1
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Episode 13
Should a mediator or lawyer meet clients at least once in person before continuing by video conference? And what’s an "internal mediator?" Do you have one? David Hoffman joins Jen and Patrice for a lively, wide-ranging conversation, contemplating these and other questions. David identifies three powerful and continuing benefits virtual dispute resolution practice, and Jen and Patrice share their experiences. David then turns the talk to Internal Family Systems. Hint: it’s not really about families.
David Hoffman is an attorney, mediator and arbitrator with the Boston Law Collaborative and a professor at Harvard Law School. Learn more about David and the Boston Law Collaborative here.