Biography

    Greg Hessel is a professional mediator, trainer, facilitator, and consultant who is currently an adjunct faculty in Woodbury College's Conflict Management Program. Greg's conflict resolution experience began 18 years ago when he spent three years doing human rights documentation work in Central America. While in Nicaragua he was part of a team that successfully negotiated the release of a kidnapped member of the Italian clergy.

    Greg is a graduate of Woodbury College's Mediation and Conflict Management program and has over 1300 hours of specialized training. His extensive professional training and full-time experience in conflict management earned him a Senior Mediator rating-- the highest possible-- from Mediate.com. Greg has trained and consulted for individuals and organizaitons throughout New England.

    Greg is a contracted mediator for the Vermont Family Court Mediation Project and the Vermont Department of Mental Health. He is also a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution, National Association for Community Mediators, the New Hampshire Association for Conflict Resolution, and the OD Network. Greg is currently a Masters candidate for a MS in Organizational Development from American University in Washington DC. He is also a lifetime member of the Phi Alpha Alpha Honor Society.

Publications:
"Listening in Prayer and Peacemaking," Lay Mission Handbook Series, (Catholic Network of Volunteer Service, Washington, DC, Volume 3 Number 7)

"The Cost and Management of Organizational Conflict", New Hampshire Business Review, July 11 - 24, 2003 Volume 25, #15, page 9.

"Truth and the Contras," in Ways Out, ed. Gene Knudson-Hoffman. (John Daniel & Company, Santa Barbara, CA., 1989) pp. 124 -- 126.