Janine Edge has been a lawyer, a university lecturer in organisational psychology and a mediator. She is also trained in conflict coaching, restorative justice facilitation and non-violent communication. For the last 7 years she has been involved in bringing mediators into schools to train school students in mediation skills, both in New Zealand and the UK.

Only five of us were able to attend Janine’s talk as many people were busy. The talk was so interesting that we decided not to write up a summary here but to run it later in the year when more people can attend. So just to summarise for the future: Janine has adapted Thomas Gordon’s ‘problem ownership’ model for resolving conflicts into a hands-on, practical tool that can be used in a variety of everyday situations, and that she hopes to take to schools for use by teachers and students. When Janine gives the talk next time she will ask us to practically test the usefulness of the methods she has developed.

We will hope to schedule Janine’s talk for the autumn and will post the date on ‘Future Events’.