The 2023 CDSC Bash was a huge success!
Thank you to our generous sponsors:
The CDSC Bash was a huge success!
Thank you to our generous sponsors:
Upcoming Events
September 2025 Basic Mediation Training
09-02-2025 5:00 pm
- 09-20-2025 4:30 pm
This 32-hour course will teach the theory and skills that trainees will need to mediate through a mix of lecture and role plays. The course will consist of six virtual weeknight sessions and two in-person sessions at our office in Cambridge, MA.
2025 CDSC BASH fundraiser
10-23-2025 5:30 pm
-6:30 pm
Come join us on Zoom as we celebrate another year of work at the Community Dispute Settlement Center and honor someone who has made a difference as a peacemaker in our community.
Past Events
Past BASH Peacemaker honorees:
2023: The Peer Mediators at Acera: The Massachusetts School for Science and Creativity
2022: Madison "Matt" Thompson • Elena Sokolow-Kaufman
2021: Brian Corr • Christopher Littlefield • D.G. Mawn
2020: Bobby Joe Leaster
2019: Officer Michael “Whitey” Daniliuk • MIT REFS
2018 : Gail Packer
2017: Brian R. Jerome • Thomas Smith • City Peace, Cambridge Youth Leadership
2016: Rev. Liz Walker • Essential Partners • The BASE
2015: Hon. John Cratsley (Ret.) • Jon Feinman • Cambridge Rindge & Latin Mediation Team
2014: Chandra Banks • John A. Fiske
2013: Lydia Edwards • James E. McGuire
2012: Donna Hicks • Hon. Eileen Shaevel
2011: Hon. Judith Dein • Robert Lewis, Jr. • Rep. Marty Walsh
2010: Steven and Linda Brion-Meisels • Peace First
2009: Martha Coakley • Douglas Stone
2008: Dina Lynch Eisenberg • David E. Matz • Stephen H. Oleskey
2007: Ellen Semonoff • Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution (MODR) • David O’Connor • Fredie Kay & Susan Jeghelian
2006: Melissa Brodrick • Brad Honoroff • Jane Honoroff
2005: Jeanne E. Cleary • David A. Hoffman • Robert H. Smith
2004: Albie Davis • Kathy Grant & Scott Harshbarger • James Grumbach • Helen Ladd • Rick Reilly
Past Spirit of Mediation Awardees: 2010: Jack Wofford • 2012: Mimi Grosser