Emerging thoughts

So I only update this blog about once a year. I always intend to post more here, but get overwhelmed by life, and Mediate This! gets neglected again. Still, my mind is always on mediation, and in particular, how to improve a mediator's skill set. For a while, I have feared that mediation is something that some people have a natural talent for, and others do not. Thankfully, I have dispelled this myth from my own mind. I intend to explain my own struggle with this myth, and to explore many other topics on this blog. I have quite a bit more time on my hands these days, and a lot of emerging thoughts about mediation that I'd like to commit to written -typed, actually-text. One emerging question I have is, how does the field of mediation continue to learn from other fields of science, thought and research without allowing those fields to have any negative impact on mediation as well? I am a student of organizational development, itself a field that pulls from psychology, social psychology, and organizational behavior, and I hope to use theories and research from those fields to advance the field of mediation. My goal is to use theories from those fields in a way that only benefits mediation, therefore demonstrating how to pull from other fields without a negative impact on the field of mediation.