The facilitator supports and manages constructive dialogue between groups with diverse and often diametrically opposite views or positions. The objective is often to develop a shared vision for an ideal future, learn to listen to each other, and understand and appreciate the feelings, experiences and positions.
Our facilitation aims to build collaboration between people and parties. We passionately believe that most problems can be solved when people work together. We bring people together around the tough issues they face to quickly create innovative solutions using our collaborative techniques and processes. Our tools and techniques build common purpose to co-create solutions, making every outcome more powerful.
During 2013 and 2014, Ben Schoeman was the lead mediator in a complex multi-party mediation between a private commercial enterprise and an affected community in Uganda, conducted on behalf of the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (CAO) of the World Bank Group.
The mediation produced a four-year agreement between the parties, during which Ben monitored and supported its implementation.
The process finally concluded in 2018.
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