FEBRUARY 28, 2019
INADR
  Learning from each other
     Through training and tournaments, students come together to listen, interact, learn, and practice mediation skills. The connections made provide individuals life- long friends with a shared understanding of the value of peaceful reconciliation.
Together for Peace
Mary Lou Frank, President
INADR has always been an organization
focused on helping individuals develop
an understanding of the value of
mediation and non-violent conflflict
resolution. The training and tournament
model helps to create a network of skilled
people who grow together after the events have passed. Social media has facilitated those continued connections and we hope that as students learn and gain in inflfluence in a chosen vocation, they will stay in touch with this vibrant community and fifind ways to contribute to it. You are always welcome to come back and help other students, who, like yourself want to learn how conflflict is not an obstacle that allows others to capitalize on someone’s hardships, but an opportunity for learning about ourselves and each other.
Having worked with INADR for many years, I have been humbled to be a part of training and judging tournaments. Students have taken the mediation skills and applied them in many difffferent careers and venues. While many students use the conflflict resolution model in legal settings, many others fifind the learning applicable to healthcare, education, government, and other community platforms. The ability to help individuals work through conflflict peacefully, is valuable and can be the “soft skill” that enables individuals to be successful whatever the chosen profession.
Most importantly, each individual who learns how to approach conflflict with respect and compassion, has an opportunity for building better connections. Relationships in families, businesses, and communities are changed when the texture of conflflict is transformed into a process that unites, not divides. We treat other people difffferently and that can help others to do the same. It is just that change that creates deeper, more respectful relationships and sets the stage of peace. It just takes one person and everything can change. INADR was founded with this hope, that we would create a groundswell that enable us to be better people, not just better lawyers or professionals. In so doing, we also hope to develop a community of like-minded people who want to make the world a better place. Ultimately, as Martin Luther King indicated, “We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools.”
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