Mission
Unresolved conflict ruins lives. It ruins lives in domestic relations that have soured. It ruins lives and careers in schools, businesses, churches, and other organizations. Unresolved conflict takes its toll within the local community and between nation states. When unresolved conflict escalates out of control, violent “solutions” lead to protracted cycles of injury and revenge.
Such conditions need not persist. There are proven ways to manage conflict, ways to resolve differences. There are paths that lead to changes of heart and improvements in the human condition. Peacemaking is an art that can be learned.
Teahouse Media’s mission is to present the art of peacemaking through the stories of men and women leading a revolution in managing conflict in neighborhoods, schools, courts, and diplomatic circles. Our mission is to make the techniques, skills, processes, and approaches of conflict resolution better known to a broader public.
Teahouse Media is grateful for the inspiration, guidance, and support provided by the Straus Institute staff and students, especially directors Thomas Stipanowich and Peter Robinson, leaders who dare to dream of a future in which men can peacefully resolve conflicts in a manner that brings greater prosperity and satisfaction to their lives. We thank the judges, lawyers, mediators, arbitrators, diplomats, clergy, professors, and students who have eagerly and selflessly supported our vision and helped launch this effort.
People
Greg Stone
Greg Stone, founder and managing partner of Teahouse Media, calls upon his combined production background and Masters in Dispute Resolution degree (Straus Institute at the Pepperdine Law School) to design and execute projects that document conflict resolution approaches.
In addition to his extensive work in television commercials, he has directed long-format projects such as the fund-raising film “A Campaign to Remember,” featuring Ted Koppel, for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
He serves as a media consultant for the Straus Institute, a position he began while completing a fellowship. In this role, he is developing media projects that promote the dispute resolution program and promote conflict resolution to a broader public.
A thirty-year veteran of the television commercial industry and a Director’s Guild of America member, Greg has now turned his attention to bringing a creative vision to the field of dispute resolution. He is also available to conduct mediation for individuals and institutions.
Tracy Stone
Tracy is the creative heart of the company. After graduating from the College of Creative Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara with an emphasis in painting, she worked as a freelance web designer and production assistant in the television commercial industry.
In 2007, Tracy helped launch Teahouse Media. As partner, web designer, editor, videographer, and motion graphics artist, she leads the creative team. Experienced in Final Cut Pro and After Effects, she supervises postproduction for Teahouse.
Denise Rocchietti
As a line producer in the television commercial production industry for the past twenty-five years, Denise has produced broadcast advertising for major national and international corporations. She brings to Teahouse a network of production contacts and the skill to plan, budget, and organize complex productions.
Deborah Stone
Deborah has helped Greg organize and run projects, both for in-house productions and contract productions. She helped manage Independent Directors, a commercial company serving the advertising industry.
Chris DiCesare
With a background in music and graphic arts, Chris supervises sound recording, mixing and music production as well as overseeing company IT functions. As a graphic artist with an independent film company for over four years, he designed film distribution and DVD packaging artwork.
Lindsay Stone
Lindsay, like her father, graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her studies in International Affairs cultivated interest in the geography of conflict and social change. From her research on collective action in Western Ukraine to the political economy of ecotourism in Thailand, her interests help inspire the global vision of Teahouse Media.
As Teahouse partner and project manager for a proposed Global Conflict Map, Lindsay is researching innovative ways to integrate digital media into the effort to bring conflict resolution skills to a broad public.
Teahouse Services
Teahouse Media collaborates with organizations who have a need for media products that promote dispute resolution. For content creation, design, production and consultation please contact us.
Media Production
We provide full-service video production, specializing in production for the web and DVD distribution. Broadcast quality production is also available.
We produce media products for training, marketing, promotion, advertising, documenting events, or bringing newsworthy information to the public.
Media Consultation
Services include the design of approaches to telling your story or promoting your products. We also help design “learning conversations” that address contentious topics.
Mediation
Mediation designed to resolve disputes involving individuals or groups offered. Disputes mediated may involve litigated cases or disputes handled outside the legal system.
