So what is a Meitheal anyway?
The Fall issue of The Collaborative Review (Vol. 15, Issue 2), has just been published and features an article by Michael Zeytoonian, Director of Dispute Resolution Counsel, LLC in Wellesley and Westborough, MA about the essence of Collaborative Law. The article is entitled “What Makes Collaborative Law Collaborative Law (really)?” and it focuses on what is at the core of Collaborative Law’s process and how this approach changes how lawyers and clients resolve disputes. Here are a few excerpts:
It’s the collaboration that works the magic of this process. It’s the combined efforts, intelligence, creativity, passion, experience, spirit and energy of all the people in the Collaborative meeting as they work, talk, listen, exchange ideas and relevant information, identify interests and goals, and build on each other’s thoughts and suggestions, all in one focused, structured gathering…
The Irish call this [Collaborative] meeting a “Meitheal”, the work group, the formal process of coming together for a common purpose, a traditional method of accomplishing as communal objective, where the process is as highly valued as the resulting outcome…
Collaborative Business Law is more than just using an alternative dispute resolution process. We are asking everyone involved to think and act differently – to truly collaborative with each other. We are urging people to go back and uncover the person each of us was created and born to be. We are advocating for the kind of response to disputes that naturally emanated from the people and the kinds of communities were once were, before we became adversarial, partisan, litigious and blame-fixated.
This Fall issue of The Collaborative Review has published six other feature articles along with Zeytoonian’s on different aspects of Collaborative Law and its growth. They include articles about Collaborative Law and its growth in Italy, in New Jersey, in Connecticut, about the choices people now have in divorce situations, and about co-parenting coaching within the context of Collaborative Law cases. The Collaborative Review is the quarterly journal of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP), now in its fifteenth year of publication. The IACP is the primary international organization of Collaborative lawyers and professionals, has over 5,000 members in over 20 countries around the world. Its mission is to transform how conflict is resolved worldwide through Collaborative Practice.
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