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To: Lane3 who wrote (12153)	4/20/2001 4:20:32 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I mentioned that the first step was to explain the process and get agreement from the participates to collaborate. I hadn't thought about this before, but you gave me a sudden AH-HA moment. I mentioned in an earlier post that I am well acquainted with group consensus. I am also a family law mediator for our local courts. Until you wrote that, I hadn't realized what a connection there is between the consensus processes and mediation. I should have -- it's one of those things that once you see it it's so obvious that you slap your head and realize you should have gotten it years ago. But for some reason I had never made the connection. I guess because one is so specifically a larger group process and the other is so specifically a legally generated two-party process. But I still can't believe I hadn't made the connection before now. Now I'm going to have to go through all I know about consensus and see how it applies to mediation, and vice versa. Shouldn't take me more than a year or so. Thanks for the insight! Do you have any experience in mediation?

To: Lane3 who wrote (12153)	4/20/2001 4:34:41 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

However, if they're sick and tired of the impasse and want to find something on which they can agree to work together, like making adoptions more available or reducing the demand for abortions, it can work. They can possibly even work together on things like this without giving up the fight on the main issue. Of course if your fighting about one thing you are less likely to cooperate on another but it is not imposible. Many pro-life groups do work to try and promote adoption, but they are less likely to support your second example. Tim