Stephen Twist Facilitator: Welcome to Stephen Twist Mediator

With over 40 years experience as a barrister in private practice, and the last 21 years as a mediator and arbitrator, I felt that the time had come for me to launch my new, personal dispute facilitation service - 'Stephen Twist Mediator'.

Increasingly, I am being instructed by other lawyers and in-house managers to act as a facilitator in intractable disputes. These cover almost all areas of conflict - commercial disputes, public authority issues, breach of contract, professional misconduct, land and boundary disputes, Wills and Intestacy issues, and workplace and employment conflict.

It seems that a significant problem for dispute managers and human resources teams is to find an individual facilitator who has technical knowledge of the issues, a knowledge and understanding of the legal points, and a track record of successful interventions. The principal mediation services provide lists of facilitators, but 'a list' cannot match the relationship of trust with a known, bespoke facilitator with successful experience who is entirely independent of the organisations concerned.

Over the next few weeks I will be posting details of the services I can offer, my collaborative method of working, facilitation styles - including evaluative facilitation, and examples of disputes in which I have been appointed as an independent facilitator.

Biography

Stephen completed CEDR training as a mediator (1999), advanced commercial mediation training (2001), community, family and employment mediation training (2003), NOCN Level 3 mediation skills (2004) and is listed with CEDR London, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators London, Mediation UK (formerly of Bristol), Bar Council, Court of Appeal, and Dere Street Mediation Group. He has triple qualification as a barrister, arbitrator and mediator in commercial, family, community and employment fields. He was a guest presenter on ‘ADR Systems for the Public Sector’ at the CEDR National Conference 2000, a former member of CEDR’s public sector working party, and a former disability conciliator with the Disability Conciliation Service. He is a director of ‘Divorce Without Pain’, and formerly a non-executive director of UNITE Mediation Ltd, a premiere regional mediation service for the North of England. Although involved in the whole area of dispute management, in industry, commerce, the public and private sectors, Stephen is particularly interested in non-court based dispute resolution, and has been responsible for developing new applications for regional authorities and the Home Office. Stephen Twist has worked with numerous public authorities in the development of ADR for their professional standards, complaints and grievance processes, involving internal and public disputes. He also undertakes work place mediation, health service conciliation, family conflict management, early neutral evaluation and expert determination. On a day-to-day basis Stephen deals with a wide range of company, partnership, commercial, employment, family and property disputes, including family finance. He records a considerable number of meditations with a 90% settlement rate, Stephen travels countrywide in relation to mediation issues and offers consultancy services in relation to dispute management, international e-mediation and conflict risk assessment.

Stephen Twist Facilitator

Welcome to Stephen Twist Mediator

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