Integrating negotiation and mediation best practices with the latest insights from cognitive neuroscience and research on attention and self-regulation.
“Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible — being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.”
A Public Benefit LLC
Mediator Moment is a social enterprise that generates revenue through mediation training and services. Our program provides training that cultivates mediation skills in young people age 13–21 — Gen Z, humanity’s first “digital natives,” who have grown up with smartphones and social media and face increasing mental-health challenges in a world of extreme social and political polarization.
We reinvest profits to achieve scale and impact through programs, online training, podcasts, short films, and live events — all in service of developing a new generation of mediators able to practice “mediator martial arts” and contribute to a more healthy and peaceful world.
Bruce Allyn
“A highly-respected mediator, Allyn is senior faculty at the Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation, advisor to governments, corporate leadership teams, community organizations and a gifted teacher for college and high school students.”
Allyn has developed Mediation Martial Arts, a unique program integrating negotiation and mediation best practices with the latest insights from cognitive neuroscience and research on attention and self-regulation.
He uses biofeedback, role-play exercises, case studies and embodied brain-heart exercises to activate and strengthen our brain's neural circuitry to achieve four measurable cognitive states:
Guiding the practice
Ages 13–21
We offer no-cost seminars to young people, to Gen Z, the first “digital natives” who grew up with smartphones and social media. As we know all too well, for many in this generation:
Attention has been engineered
Continuous scrolling, reward loops, and algorithmic feeds shaping their minds before critical thinking skills can fully develop.
Identity is performed for others
Where the self becomes something you show rather than something you simply are.
Inner life has been colonized
By devices designed to profit from their impulses.
A polarized world they did not make
And many lack the tools to navigate.
The Community
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