Michael Leathes, a founder of the International Mediation Institute and former in-house counsel of high accomplishment, has written to correct our immediately prior post:
Regarding the penultimate para, actually there are examples of deal mediations out there. In fact, we have a little section on the IMI portal devoted to this (http://www.imimediation.org/deal-mediation). I have done it myself, several times, and also wrote a role-play scenario called Global Warming featuring a deal mediation which was used at a UIA programme in 2007 (http://www.imimediation.org/cache/downloads/62ip21mriuww0k0cgogcsckk/Global%20Warming%20Roleplay-2.pdf)
I am correcting the post to reflect this more accurate information, but thought it deserved its own posting. When one hears directly from the mouth of a horse, one should let others know.
