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“If you can’t own your past you can’t own your future”

Thu 6 Dec 2018

Written by Te Reo O Te Omeka Hau, winner of the FairWay Resolution Anne Scragg Scholarship 2018

He aha te mea nui o tēnei ao

Maku e ki atu

He tangata, he tangata, he tangata

What is the greatest thing of this world?

And I will reply

It is people, it is people, it is people

Kickboxing Provides a Lesson for Mediators

Mon 3 Dec 2018

Written by Denise Evans

A few weeks ago, I spent the afternoon driving around the Coromandel with an exponent of kickboxing. My friend is a very kind, gentle woman who is married to a kickboxing instructor. As she talked, I found myself seeing the analogy between the process used to teach kickboxing and the skills we need to learn as mediators.

Family justice – time for evolution, not revolution

Fri 30 Nov 2018

Written by Keri Morris for LawTalk

Navigating Christmas and summer holidays

Tue 27 Nov 2018

FairWay’s Family Dispute Resolution team share some advice to support separated families through the Christmas and summer holiday period.

For some separated families, December and January are often difficult periods to navigate.

Creating a space for conflict resolution

Fri 23 Nov 2018

Reflecting on Thanksgiving, Abby Goldstein shares her viewpoint on lessons from the American labour movement. Abby is FairWay’s Marketing and Design Advisor. She is originally from the United States and has been in New Zealand for a little over two and a half years.

Kanohi ki te kanohi – challenge for online dispute resolution

Tue 20 Nov 2018

Written by Denise Evans

Armistice Day – conflict and peace in 2018

Thu 8 Nov 2018

Written by Denise Evans

This Sunday, 11 November 2018 marks the centenary of the end of the First World War. The world is a very different place today to 1918 when an armistice agreement famously called an end to fighting at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. While 100 years have since passed, conflict continues to ravage today’s world. On the world stage, many nations are dealing with conflict, both domestically and internationally.