Thursday, March 23rd
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, and raise money for food banks .
Ms. Frisbie invites you to support the Greater Chicago Food Depository
Our special guest this week, Distinguished Professor in Residence, Director of the Dispute Resolution Program at Loyola University of Chicago School of Law, will Present on:
Microbes at the Mediation Table: How might food choices and the gut-brain connection impact dispute resolution?
The idea that breaking bread with someone is helpful in making peace is quite familiar, and most of us have experienced someone becoming irritable due to low blood sugar, but there is much less general awareness of the recent scientific discoveries about how food choices impact the brain through the human microbiome and the mind-gut connection, and ultimately influence emotions and behavior. As evinced by the English language, which is full of phrases like “gut feeling, “trust your gut,” “sick to my stomach,” “gut-wrenching,” and “go with your gut,” humans have long had a sense that their digestive tracts play an important role in their decision-making and emotional lives. Recent scholarship now confirms the connection between the gut and mental state through exploration of an amazing internal world of symbiotic microorganisms called the human microbiome which is directly impacted by the foods we eat and can influence our basic emotions, pain sensitivity, and social interactions, and can even guide many of our decisions. In this presentation we will take a look at the possible implications of this science in the field of dispute resolution.
Teresa Frisbie is a Distinguished Professor in Residence and the Director of the Dispute Resolution Program at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. A former partner at the litigation law firm of Foran & Schultz and experienced mediator, she has taught negotiation, mediation, mediation advocacy and international arbitration to judges, lawyers, law students, business executives, physicians and nurses in the U.S. and internationally. She also coaches Loyola’s successful international mediation team.
Teresa was named the 2018 Mediator of the Year by the Association for Conflict Resolution, Chicago; and both a Top Ten Women Neutral and a Leading Lawyer in the areas of Alternative Dispute Resolution/Employment, ADR/Commercial Litigation and ADR/International as voted by her Illinois peers through Leading Lawyers.
In addition to her long legal career in business, employment, injury and wrongful death litigation, Teresa has helped people and companies resolve disputes in a wide variety of circumstances over the years including disputes between business partners, executives, employers and employees (everything from restrictive covenants to discrimination), siblings inheriting estates, buyers and sellers of residential and commercial real estate, landlords and tenants, and condominium boards and residents.
Having initially developed an interest in how our brains work through her work in conflict resolution, she has become involved in the mindfulness and well-being movement in the legal field and teaches a mindfulness and well-being course for law students.
J.D. Loyola University Chicago School of Law B.A. University of Illinois, Urbana, IL