PRO BONO CONSULTING
NO CRISIS SHOULD BE WASTED (CHURCHILL)
With our pro bono conflict counselling and mediation services, we support organisations and institutions regionally and throughout Germany that would normally have little access to qualified conflict counselling and support.
We focus on advising non-profit organisations, social enterprises and sometimes also individuals in need.
We would like to use our pro bono conflict counselling services to say thank you, especially to those customers who (can and do!) honour our commitment in monetary terms.
Pro bono consulting for organisations
Pro bono support
The Baumwollspinnerei is a place of art and culture. We therefore make our rooms available free of charge to a small group of artists every week, who give themselves and others the opportunity to draw, sketch and study people and costumes.
Interview: Few things are more unifying than resolved conflicts
Few things are more unifying than resolved conflicts
...or why conflict management is not about removing obstacles, but about innovation and creativity.
(Here unabridged) Interview, LVZ 27 July 2019
Dr Weigel, what exactly is a conflict?
The most difficult question first! Quite different from mediation! Well, in any case, the conflict is regularly not what the conflict parties present. Either their statements resemble crisis reports or they desperately recount how their own ideas for a solution have been rejected. Conflict escalations, for example through threats or speaking out, keeping quiet or involving a lawyer, are usually unsuccessful or ineffective attempts to end the conflict. The effects are usually the [...]
Mediation in organisations – An interview on the innovation-promoting work of mediators in and for organisations.
Mediation in organisations.
An interview with Dr Sascha Weigel on the work of mediators in and for organisations.
The interview - abridged here - was conducted by Sarah Lipot in December 2018.
Sarah Lipot is currently studying social work at the Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg. As part of her academic work on the topic of mediation, she is investigating the question of what mediation means in organisations and what practical challenges mediators face.
How did you find your way to mediation?
I have already attended seminars for my own further training alongside my studies and during my traineeship. There I came into contact with counselling processes that placed more emphasis on process counselling than on specialist counselling - where [...]