Educating the public on ways to deal with dispute, prevent, avoid, and resolve conflict is a goal every practitioner must consider and where possible undertake.  In my case, here in Hawaii, we can utilize public television as a channel for disseminating information.

We can utilize the public channel studios for the filming, editing, and finalization of educational pieces base on the sponsorship of non-profit groups.  We have several who are willing to sponsor.

Our efforts will result in the production of a number of scripted scenarios which demonstrate such processes as mediation, facilitation, arbitration, etc. If you have any interesting scripts you are willing to donate to our effort (we can acknowledge donations) please let me know.

We will use the role played scenarios as the basis for a panel discussion the day of broadcast.  We hope to recruit knowledgeable, interesting, and focused practitioners and users of our services to discuss what occurs in the story lines for broadcast that day.  Here in Hawaii I think we can call it “talk story”.

Example topics we’re considering include:

Contract dispute

Construction

Special ed.

Landlord tenant

Med. Claims

Probate/elder care

If any of you have produced or seen programs of this nature please do not hesitate to contact me.  We can acknowledge but we cannot reimburse, pay, or advertise in these productions.