{"id":10816,"date":"2025-01-24T18:21:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T18:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/?p=10816"},"modified":"2025-01-24T18:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T18:21:22","slug":"exploring-peacemaking-in-mediation-insights-from-the-maine-agricultural-mediation-program-webinar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/blog\/2025\/01\/24\/exploring-peacemaking-in-mediation-insights-from-the-maine-agricultural-mediation-program-webinar\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Peacemaking in Mediation: Insights from the Maine Agricultural Mediation Program Webinar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The Maine Agricultural Mediation Program hosted a webinar, \u201cIntroductory Peacemaking for Mediators:\u00a0 Enriching Your Practice with Circle Process\u201d on Tuesday, January 7, 2025.\u00a0 \u00a0Andy Krull was the presenter and Lucy Wess, of Maine AMP was moderator. \u00a0NCAMP\/FARM-VA Mediation Director Bob Holbert attended the class, along with program mediators Shannon Sneary-Alabanza and Wanda Braithwaite-Baril.\u00a0 The process of \u201cPeacemaking\u201d as employed in mediation was described and examined.\u00a0 Additionally,\u00a0 \u201cCircle Process\u201d was presented, a mediation method that has roots in Native American Culture and involves a circular arrangement of participants with no tables or obstacles between.\u00a0 A speaking talisman (basket, feather, or other physical object) is passed around the circle.\u00a0 The only person who speaks is the one holding the object.\u00a0 Successive circles of introduction, identification of issues, reaching consensus, and conclusion transpire in the process. The webinar about this method was very beneficial.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 7, 2025, the Maine Agricultural Mediation Program hosted a webinar titled \u201cIntroductory Peacemaking for Mediators: Enriching Your Practice with Circle Process.\u201d Presented by Andy Krull and moderated by Lucy Wess, the session delved into the concept of &#8220;Peacemaking&#8221; in mediation. The webinar also introduced the &#8220;Circle Process,&#8221; a method rooted in Native American culture that fosters open dialogue through a circular arrangement and the use of a speaking talisman. Attendees, including NCAMP\/FARM-VA Mediation Director Bob Holbert and mediators Shannon Sneary-Alabanza and Wanda Braithwaite-Baril, found the session highly beneficial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3388,"featured_media":10817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farmva","category-ncamp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10818,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10816\/revisions\/10818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}