A better way to conflict.
We believe in conflict strategies that help people move beyond simple resolutions. Let our expertise in mediation and conflict resolution, with experience in some of the world’s largest corporations and international firms, help you write a better ending.
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Conflict doesn’t have to be bad, in fact it’s often what drives new ideas and helps find win-win solutions that add to the total sum. We offer a people-first process of mediation, focused on communication and negotiation coaching for both sides, to find mutual ground to build something better.
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Whether you are mediating a case before it goes to court, looking for a neutral third party to help resolve a business or civil dispute, or looking for conflict and negotiation coaching before or during a dispute, let us help you find a path through the conflict that leads to a better outcome. With years of negotiation, corporate communications (including Google, startups, journalism, and more), and international relations, we take an approach that combines conflict research and communications best practices for a professional and comprehensive path to the other side. Schedule a call to learn more.
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Conflict can be healthy – when done right. See the power of having healthy conflict in your teams, the kind that leads to more progress. Get in touch to learn more about our workshops, team training, and executive coaching around being better at conflict. Tell us more about what your team is dealing with to see if we can help.
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We believe in a better way to conflict. Epilogue started as a vehicle for helping people to see conflict not as a negative, but as a tool for progress, and to build more peace and prosperity in our communities and in parts of the world that need it most. Our team brings mediation, corporate communications, and international relations expertise to help you create a better path forward. Learn more about founder Seth McNew.
Mediation
Conflict better. Keep control. Find more peace.
Mediation allows people in a dispute to meet with a facilitator, and through a structured and professional process, seek to find an agreement where all sides can be made whole. This isn’t a judgment – it’s a private conversation, in space and process to safely negotiate to seek a long-term agreement. Mediation keeps the parties in control, but through a process where underlying interests can be found and creative solutions can make a better final outcome.
Conflict workshops and training
Conflict is healthy – learn how to do it better.
At its core, conflict is a competition of ideas, and the tension between them can hone strategies, create progress, and ultimately create stronger and healthier teams. Our conflict workshops help people to understand the psychological and physiological forces at play when we’re deep in conflict and negotiation, and how to use those forces to the advantage of ourselves and our teams. With experience in mediation, corporate communications, and even high level acrobatics, we teach skills around communication, negation, somatic body impulse awareness and control, and more. Reach out to discuss what a workshop could look like for your team.
Peace building
Using modern techniques to resolve conflict where it’s needed most.
With experience in tech and AI, global corporations, crisis communications, anti-money laundering, and high stakes negotiations, we’re applying modern mediation and conflict resolution techniques to help find peace where it’s needed most. We’re on a mission to help people in high conflict zones, underserved communities, and those without the power to find a path to reduced suffering and more autonomy. Follow along our journey as we find ways to use this work for the good of the world, and if you want to join us, become a fellow.
Message from the founder:
“I started this journey trying to understand conflict in my own life, thinking that I could find ways to end it or at least avoid it. I learned that conflict isn’t the problem, people being bad at conflict is.
I started drawing on all I’ve learned from my executive and crisis communications work at Google, mediation and negotiation training at Harvard Law School, international security and policy courses at Stanford, even from my time traveling the world as an acrobatic and stunt performer including with Cirque du Soleil. How can communication, relationship building, understanding physiology during intense moments, and above all, more curiosity, help for more meaningful and productive conflict?
Now, we’re applying that to complex disputes, for healthy and higher-performing teams, and ultimately in high conflict zones and humanitarian disputes across the world where it’s needed most.”