Thursday, February 9th
8 a.m PST| 11 a.m EST
Offered by Will Work For Food and moderated by Jeff Kichaven (www.JeffKichaven.com ) and Jean Lawler (www.LawlerADR.com)
This worldwide conversation will be like nothing else. Join in! Share, learn, have fun.
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Our special guests this week, Dr. Linda M. Ippolito, Senior Partner & Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Professional Development, and Joan Haberman Visual Artist and Retired Master at Ontario Superior Court, will Present on:
Seeing and Hearing with new Eyes and Ears: How to transform your Conflict Resolution work through Arts-Based Teaching Methods
Creativity, innovation and the ability to work with others are three essential skills for success in the increasingly settlement-oriented conflict culture of the 21st century. Arts-based approaches to advocacy, negotiation and problem-solving can help to develop and enhance these skills. Arts-based learning can help expand our thinking and approaches to problem-solving, conflict management and dispute resolution beyond the limited rational-logical considerations of traditional legal analysis Engagement with the arts reconnects us to creative potential and helps us to see the efficacy of employing creative thinking in professional environments where analytical and critical thinking have generally been over-emphasized. Experiences with new ways of "seeing and hearing" conflict have the potential to shift traditional norms and behaviours and bring about more desirable outcomes in practice. This presentation advocates the use of music and arts-based (visual arts) methods as a way to encourage us to "see with new eyes" and "hear with new ears" as we move towards a new conflict culture and a new breed of professionals
Dr. Linda Ippolito is a classical pianist, lawyer, dispute resolution practitioner, teacher, and scholar.
She studied at the Juilliard School of Music in New York and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music. Throughout the 1980’s Linda distinguished herself at national and international competitions, participating, most notably, in the Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow, the Sydney International Piano Competition in Australia, and the Montreal International Piano Competition in Canada. She has performed throughout North American and Europe as a recitalist, with orchestra, as a vocal collaborator and duo pianist. A much sought-after collaborative pianist, Linda has partnered with such vocal luminaries as the late Victor Braun, Adrianne Pieczonka, Barbara Hannigan and Aprile Millo, among others.
Dr. Ippolito’s passion lies in the intersection between music and conflict. Her Masters’ thesis explored collaborative vocal music-making as an innovative approach to conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Her Doctoral dissertation examined shifting dominant culture disputing metaphors and mindsets from war and games to the musical ensemble, and building creative capacities through the use of music-based teaching and learning modalities. Linda has authored numerous articles and scholarly publications on dispute resolution topics, including the book “Music, Leadership and Conflict: the Art of Ensemble Negotiation and Problem-solving” for the Palgrave Macmillan series, Business, Arts and Humanities.
Joan Haberman received her BCL and LLB from McGill University in 1978 and 1979, respectively and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1981. She practiced litigation in both private and public settings until 1998, when she was appointed to the Superior Court of Ontario as a Case Management Master (associate judge). After retiring from the Bench in 2016, Joan returned her attentions to painting, something that had been a large part of her early life. She is currently a member of Gallery 1313, where she exhibits her work from time to time. It can also be seen on her Instagram page,