Chuck Menahem Kanafi 

Integrative intercultural lawyer and mediator

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Chuck Menahem Kanafi is a values-based, purpose driven lawyer. He specialises in conflict prevention and management and contracts.

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He is a Certified Mediator and brings an intentional and mindful approach to mediation. He is a Certified Conscious Contracts® practitioner and trainer.

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We discuss his insights into new ways of addressing conflicts in mediation and ​through Conscious Contracts® as well as his plans to assist impactful businesses through more compassionate contracts.

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Bio:

Chuck Menahem Kanafi is a values-based, purpose driven lawyer specialising in conflict prevention and management and contracts.

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He brings an intentional and mindful approach to mediation. He is a Certified Conscious Contracts® practitioner and trainer.

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Chuck is a former ambassador for Israel. He is qualified as a lawyer in Israel and New York and is a Certified Mediator under German law. He has over thirty years of legal, government and international trade and high tech experience. His focal points include the European Union/Germany, Israel, and India. 

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Show notes:

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[2:17] Chuck describes how transformative mediation works to deliver better solutions than traditional dispute settlement.

[8:00] Chuck relates how he came to mindful meditation and his inclusion of mindfulness practices including meditation and Vipassana yoga.

[14:09] We drill into how legal representatives can help or hinder transformative mediation. and how best for lawyers to train for this approach.

[20:03] Chuck shares about his journey to becoming interested in Conscious Contracts® which started with Brexit. 

[27:48] Chuck explains how Conscious Contracts® help prevent conflicts, and how traditional lawyers react to them, in his experience.

[33:07] Chuck's latest plans are to assist conscious businesses, such as B-Corps and social enterprises, to integrate Conscious Contracts® into their operations, so they don't omit their conscious approach from their legal frameworks.

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Links:

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Kanafi law​, Chuck's website: www.kanafi-adr.com

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An article about Transformative Mediation which was first described by Robert A. Baruch Bush and Joseph Folger in their 2004 book, The Promise of Mediation.

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Conscious Contracts® website.

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Oliver Hart's Theory of Incomplete Contracts, which won him a Nobel Prize in Economics in 2014.

Alalá Linda (f/k/a Linda Alvarez)'s book Discovering Agreement: Contracts That Turn Conflict Into Creativity. 

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The website of B Lab, the non-profit behind B Corporations. 

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