Bridging the Communication Gap
Common Ground Newsletter - Summer 2008The generation gap of the 1960's has evolved to become the communication gap. Elders and their children are not talking with each other about the financial and emotional components of legacy nor about personal end-of-life issues. This creates the potential for a negative legacy of conflict, pain, and family feuds that could have been eliminated with a tried-and-true method: communication.
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KATHRYN MUNN, LL.B., Cert. ConRes., C. Med., is a mediator, facilitator, arbitrator and lawyer. She is recognized as a Chartered Mediator by the ADR Institute of Canada.
Through her firm Munn Conflict Resolution Services she works exclusively in dispute resolution from a base in London, Ontario, Canada For the Ontario Mandatory Mediation program she is a Roster Mediator -- Toronto/ Ottawa/ Windsor. She is a mediator for the Government of Canada's Farm Debt Mediation Service in Ontario.
Kathryn's mediation approach is facilitative and interest-based. Her areas of mediation experience include lawsuits, personal injury, construction, corporate/organizational, employment, labour relations, victim/offender, debtor/ creditor, family issues including family business, and estates. She is actively involved in online mediation and arbitration services based in Canada and the United States.
Kathryn provides training and facilitation services, in addition to or separately from, mediation services. She has taught courses on conflict resolution topics through the University of Western Ontario, Fanshawe College, Lambton College as well as many companies and non-profit organizations. When groups -- from workteams to boards of directors to non-profit groups -- need help with planning or conflict resolution, Kathryn provides facilitation services.
Before opening Munn Conflict Resolution Services, Kathryn had 16 years background in law practice in Ontario and was Executive Director of a legal clinic. Her areas of law practice included family, criminal, civil litigation and administrative law. She completed a Certificate in Conflict Resolution at the Justice Institute of British Columbia and other specialized training in mediation, arbitration and facilitation.
Who is Kathryn Munn?