Jay Rothman

Description of Practice

I specialize in participatory and empowering processes, including:
Conducting complex mediations between individuals and groups.
Coaching individuals.
Facilitating multi-stakeholder conflict engagement processes. 

Professional Background

I am a seasoned mediator. For more than three decades, I have mediated, facilitated, taught and trained thousands of people around the world. I support people to engage their complex relational conflicts as opportunities for constructive learning, cooperation and change.

I work with clients, usually separately and together, about their important goals and ways conflicts are in the way of achieving them. 

I also coach one side of a conflict to deal with it and the other side more mindfully and constructively, even if the other side isn’t so keen to tango.

Mediation Experience

30 years experience across over a dozen countries:

*Coaching individuals to deal with conflict more mindfully and constructively 
*Mediating between individuals and groups stuck in destructive conflict cycles
*Working with complex family dynamics (from post divorce custody problems, to navigating major transitions)
*Facilitating within and between groups seeking to work better together
*Running deep retreats for teams and families
*Mediation between leaders in business and public organizations

Mediation Approach & Philosophy

As a trusted third party, or conflict coach, I support people to be clear about their goals and values at stake in a conflict situation. Beginning with this positive frame, we then explore ways their conflict is blocking the fulfillment of these goals. We then explore ways to best engage the conflict such that stated goals are achievable.

Representative Cases Handled as a Mediator

Post separation mediation between divorced couples who have had ongoing conflicts in their post-marriage relationship (especially dealing with children). Mediating between founders and successors in family businesses. Coaching leaders - individually and in teams - to gain a better handle on specific conflict situations as a lens for learning and improving their conflict handling capacities afterwards. Mediating between battling leaders in organizations who were undermining each other and team morale and helping them convert this in to change and development for themselves and system. Facilitating within and between groups identity groups (e.g police and community; Israelis and Palestinians) seeking to work better together, instead of at cross purposes.

Complex Case Experience

Facilitated interventions, taught and trained in complex identity-based conflicts (i.e. racial, ethnic, national) in N. and S. America, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia.

Special Master for US Federal Judge after race riots in Cincinnati, Ohio - see http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~pgarb/istudies/applied/presentations/site/presentation.html

Have worked in conflict and its creative engagement in Jerusalem for  years.

Fees

Jay charges $300 per hour. Jay is committed to service. If cost is a barrier, Jay is open to exploring an alternative fee structure that is workable.

References

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Other Information

I live in  Yellow Springs, Ohio. I serve clients throughout the US, and abroad. I work in person and also via zoom. 

I faciliatate team-based problem solving and visioning retreats in my company owned retreat center (call for information).

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