Theatre expertise helps court mediation

Theatre practitioners are experts in hearing and telling stories and that's exactly what courts need in mediation proceedings.
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Anthony Gormley, Untitiled (Listening)

For the past three years I have been working as a volunteer mediator in Manhattan and Brooklyn civil and criminal courts. The organization I trained with and work for is New York Peace Institute, which mediates from four to five thousand cases a year—not only in the courts, but in schools and communities as well.

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Paul Zimet
About the Author
Paul Zimet is the Artistic Director of the Talking Band. Born and raised in New York City, he studied clarinet and voice at the High School of Music and Art, comparative literature at Columbia College, and medicine at Harvard Medical School.