Back to Basics: Legos and Me

摘要

When I was visiting my alma mater, Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, during the traditional Friday afternoon free-beer happy hour, I noticed a group of students unloading a massive quantity of Legos from boxes. The Legos were set around a clear area in the middle of the room. It was obvious that they were ready to engage in a communal and improvisational building project. It stuck me how appropriate the Legos analogy is not only for training mediators, but also for the conduct of the mediation process itself.