Why I Became a Mediator: “The Human Factor” Continues– EngagingConflicts.com
I posted here announcing the premier edition of my column at the work-life online magazine The Complete Lawyer, distributed to some 300,000 attorneys nation-wide. The column is co-written with Vickie Pynchon, Diane Levin, and Stephanie West Allen. Here’s the newest installment of “The Human Factor,” how each of us became mediators after becoming lawyers.
The theme of this issue of The Complete Lawyer is “Focus On a Sound Mind In a Sound Body”. There’s a great intro to the issue here at the What About Clients? blog.
The issue’s theme quote is by Susan Daicoff, author of Lawyer, Know Thyself:
True intelligence requires the ability to integrate and synthesize the wisdom of the head and the heart, the Thinker and the Feeler, and the mind and the body. We are trained to “live in our heads.”
I referred to Susan’s work here when I began my series last week on MBTI applications in legal and mediation practices. Her book, Lawyer, Know Thyself, synthesized forty years of empirical research on lawyers’ personality traits and related these findings to professionalism and lawyer well being. I’ll be writing more about her findings later in the MBTI series.
