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  • The USIP is now headed by a 28-year-old, per a federal court filing.
  • DOGE named Nate Cavanaugh, a tech entrepreneur and college dropout, as the USIP's acting president.
  • Lawyers for the USIP said nearly all of the institute's staff in the US have been fired.

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[-] forrgott@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Lol, no.

That sounds like a terrible way to facilitate anything other than making the conflict worse.

[-] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I did a mediation workshop a few years ago and that is verbatim what the attourney that runs the organization said. Your job is to act as a neutral third party and ask questions like why are we here? What would you loke to accomplish? Can you tell me more about that? And etc. Usually disputes come down to one or both parties not knowing what the other knows. Even if you can see what the iasue is, it is not your job to tell them, but to come to conclusions on their own because you don't know the full scope of the iasues.

Mediation is different than arbitration in that mediators don't make a determination.

https://www.vaildaily.com/opinion/robbins-the-dumbest-person-in-the-room/

[-] pufferfisherpowder@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I think you misunderstood what "the dumbest person in the room means". It doesn't mean to be literally dumb, it means to pretend to not know anything and boil down the conflict to facts instead of perception of what the other party wants. It takes fucking skill and experience to steer the conversation in a constructive way and to keep two opposing parties in check, steering the conversation away from conflict to understanding each others viewpoint.

[-] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works -3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm not the one who misunderstood that, lmao.

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