About Us
Mindful Negotiating charts and demystifies the negotiation process for internal communication standards and external performance.
As much as we may wish otherwise, we are emotional before we are rational beings.
Especially when we are short on time and letting negotiations happen to us, we could do better with quick access to in-industry support.
With tools that span Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation, The FBI’s Crisis Negotiation Unit, (and originate from Family Systems Therapy), we strive to usher in the next generation of negotiation with field and industry-specific practitioners working together to make conflict more useful than destructive. Tech-literatue, accessible, and adaptable approach to understanding conflict and the negotiations t. And we believe everyone can benefit from better understanding themselves, their communication patterns, and negotiation. We practice-focused research, involvement in ongoing high-level deals and disputes.
Our Aims
Modernize the field, while honoring its roots.
Much of the Harvard’s renowned negotiation pedagogy stems from Family Therapy, Psychodrama and principles of Adult Development. We follow in this tradition as we think it is helpful to understand ourselves not as individuals, but as fragments of families. These familial conflict styles write the blueprint for our future relationships with others and manifest in the organizations we’re a part of.
Yet, our world is changing, and the meaning of family and networks is ever evolving. Rather than rely on a static framework, we use this lens and challenge conventional ways of thinking by listening intently to each client and adapting to meet their particular needs. Agency-enabling for people to learn about themselves, their families, and their brains.
Maintain a realistic optimism.
Mindful Negotiating finds its roots in working with prisons. Metaphorically, this describes an essential belief that people can change, and they deserve the opportunity to grow.
While there is no magic elixir to shift internal paradigms, we hold out on the hope that when folks are given the right tools and support, and that is coupled with internal motivation, real change can happen.
Create a place for practitioners to gather, share, and learn.
The field of negotiation has broadened greatly since its inception. Today negotiation practitioners may also be scholars, lawyers, law enforcement, etc. We believe the field is strongest when it considers multiple disciplines.
Mindful Negotiating is a place where negotiators of different fields and domains can gather to share ideas and find community.
