About Young, Budding Expectations: Breyer Patterson Engaging Conflicts Today Interview — EngagingConflicts.com
“As a young person who kind of grew up as an environmentalist/feminist/hippie I’ve become very bored and un-enthusiastic about the mediation field.” — Breyer Patterson
Engaging Conflicts Today interviews Breyer Patterson who is the lead InstantAssist Administrator, a new business offering of the same company that offers Mediate.com. She has been mediating since 1997, focusing on family, business, landlord-tenant, elder and family matters. Breyer received her masters degree in Conflict Resolution from the University of Oregon in 1999. She is also a mediation trainer with the University of Oregon law school, and a facilitator at Lane Community College.
If you would like a copy of her interview, and are not signed up for the newsletter (which you can do in the sidebar on the right!), email me this week at engagingconflicts@gmail.com with Breyer Patterson in the subject line and I’ll email it to you.
By the way, I offer Breyer’s interview because I’m interested in giving more voice here at Engaging Conflicts to students and practitioners who are “younger” in the field of ADR than I am, and who might not have the “credential” and additional professional license that I have as a practicing attorney. I think it’s harder for most mediators who are not attorneys to make a reasonable living, and I would like this to be more openly discussed– as Breyer says in her interview, “…the field is very difficult to make a living at and I sure wish someone had at least given me a head’s up on that.”
Please write me (EngagingConflicts@gmail.com) if you are interested in sharing your views on this possibly as a Guest Blogger at Engaging Conflicts.
