Welcome to MATA
The Home of Mediation Mastery
“Greetings………………..
“When I trained as a commercial mediator in 1991 I knew immediately that mediation was by far the best and most sensible way of resolving disputes, so much so that I ceased my Quantity Surveying practice in 1996, initially to become a director of CEDR (Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution) and then, from 2001, to practise on my own as MATA (Mediation and Training Alternatives).
Read MoreThe Home of Commercial Mediator Training
MATA - Mediation And Training Alternatives - was formed in January 2002 by David Richbell. MATA was built and established as a result of a vision that David had about the way he believed the mediation arena should develop and evolve and he wanted MATA to encompass this vision. In 2010 Jane Gunn joined David creating the MATA partnership. Anyone who is involved in or is touched by any of MATA’s work can be assured that MATA strives to be
a mediator centred community where we seek to develop and support our members and to share learning with one another. Central to MATA’s aims is the practice and training of people in dispute avoidance and in the positive approaches to conflict. Our Mission is to use and teach more effective ways to manage and resolve disputes and transform conflict by practising and demonstrating what we teach so as to improve the ways in which individuals and organisations deal with each other. It MATAs to us.
Read More
Breakfast Club
David Richbell, Dave Owen and Michael Cover invite you to join them at the
MEDIATOR’S BREAKFAST CLUB
on Tuesday 15th May 2012 @ 8.00 a.m for 8.30am
The next Mediators’ Breakfast Club is planned for Tuesday 17th January 2012, at 8.00am at The Punch Tavern, 99 Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 1DE, www.punchtavern.com
The agenda will be: 8.00am networking and 8.30am the talk.
Breakfast is served in the private dining area. The menu offers Croissants, pastries, buttered kipper, eggs Benedict, devilled Kidney, full English breakfast or a simple omelette.
£5.00 is payable on the day.
David Richbell, Dave Owen and I very much look forward to seeing you at this event, where we are returning to our original theme of developing our practices as mediators and developing the overall market.
Please let us know whether you will be attending, so that we can get the catering arrangements right. We may have to limit the numbers, so please respond as soon as possible. Also, please let us know if you have any special dietary requirements. Email dwo@pengaron.co.uk to confirm your attendance.
There is also a Mediators’ New Breakfast Club group on LinkedIn.
Best wishes,
Michael Cover
☎ Tel: 020 7203 5134
☎ Mobile: 07766 225 128
Revealing MASTERY….
With the tenth anniversary event only days away, the MATA faculty, can now unveil the latest key concept – Mediation Mastery. This new theme will be uncovered and explored in depth at the event running from 7th – 11th July, and in particular at the Peter Adler two-day workshop (see below).
We introduce in this key paper the ROUTE TO MASTERY..
Route to Mastery
Purpose of this paper
For the past ten years or more, we[1] have been training commercial Mediators at every level – foundation, through the Mediator Training Course; intermediate through a series of courses that build upon the foundation training; and advanced, particularly through the annual international Advanced Mediator Retreat.
Our training is always mediation-centred and is delivered by practising Mediators.
Read MoreNon-Lawyer Mediators’ Group
The next meeting of the non-lawyer mediators’ group will take place at:
The Savile Club, 69 Brook Street, London, W1K 4ER (Tel 020 7629 5462)
at 8.00am (for 8.30am) on Friday 3rd February 2012
A full cooked breakfast will be provided – a charge of £8.00 (cash on the day) will be made, but FIRST ATTENDANCE IS FREE.
If you are interested in attending please contact:
Dave Owen
Pengaron Mediation Services Ltd
23 Berkeley Square, London, W1J 6HE
Tel: 020 3178 4786
Read MoreJoanna Kalowski Cross-Culturalism
JOANNA KALOWSKI is a mediator, facilitator and judicial educator, and is director of Joanna Kalowski and Associates, a management consultancy specialising in dispute resolution, cross-cultural communication and organisational development. She has worked for over twenty years in Australia and New Zealand, as well as in Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong and India. Over the last seven years, Joanna has also run workshops in Italy, Germany, England, Denmark, Spain, Switzerland and France, including a three-day summer school for the Centre de Mediation de Paris (CMAP) in 2005, conducted in French on Majorca.
Joanna has mediated over 300 cases: indigenous land claims, environmental matters, community involvement in public infrastructure projects, commercial, industrial and academic disputes.
Between 1984 and 1988, Joanna was Director of Community Relations at the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board, and from 1988 to 1996, a member of the Federal Administrative Appeals Tribunal. She joined the National Native Title Tribunal for a three year appointment in 1996. In 2001 she was Chairman of LEADR, Australia’s largest non-profit dispute resolution organisation, and was their Visiting Fellow in 2006-7. For eleven years, she was co-presenter of LEADR’s Australian and overseas training program. Joanna has held a range of other board and advisory council memberships, including the Public Interest Advocacy Centre where she served a decade on the Board, and the advisory council of the Indigenous Law Centre of the University of New South Wales. An adult educator by background, Jo has also served on the Ethics Review Committee (Human Subjects) of Macquarie University, the National Population Council advising the Minister for Immigration, and the NSW Board of Adult Education. She was a director of Sydney Dance Company for three years and foundation Chair of the first Australian Foodbank from 1992 to 1995. Over the past five years, Joanna has been active as a judicial educator, working with courts and Tribunals across Australia in areas such as managing tension in the courtroom, communicating with unrepresented litigants and cross-cultural communication. She also assisted judges of the Family Court of Australia for three years during the introduction of the less adversarial trial process in disputes over children. Joanna speaks fluent French, and also speaks German and Italian. In 2002, she was appointed to the Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organisation’s Panel of Neutrals, and in 2003 to the Centre de Mediation et d’Arbitrage in Paris, where she lives and works for part of each year. In 2008, she accepted appointment to the International Mediator Institute (IMI), and serves on its independent standards commission and the reference group setting standards in intercultural mediation. This year, Joanna was appointed Diversity Advocate to the ANZ Bank.
Cross-cultural imperative
Read More
