Gabriel Holl, J.D.

Associate Consultant

Overview

Gabriel focuses on the liberatory potential of mediation. His path began with perspective-altering experiences in restorative justice circles, which led him to further study and research in community-based conflict resolution. Through these experiences and ongoing reflection, he recognized that peaceful approaches to harm are not the norm, yet they hold powerful possibilities. He believes that active listening and resolute kindness can be deeply transformative, creating understanding, strengthening communication, and helping people navigate even the most complex conflicts toward meaningful resolution.

Professional Experience

Gabriel is a licensed attorney in the State of New York. He also holds a B.F.A from The New School and a Master's Degree from New York University.

Gabriel's instincts for mediation began in childhood, later beginning formal mediation during law school. While earning his J.D., he concluded that the costly adversarial nature of legal practice and litigation was generally ineffective for actually resolving people's problems. Having witnessed conflict resolution providing better outcomes for the very people he went to law school to help, he refined and developed a robust skill-set centered around ethical conflict resolution and advanced negotiation strategies.

Upon meeting his mentors and finding hope in the possibility of helping people navigate serious conflict in a way that results in qualitatively better outcomes than the courts can provide, he pursued a clinical mediation practice of divorce and family mediation, and gained exposure to other areas of mediation such as neighbor and renter disputes and workplace discrimination disputes. Gabriel also offers social and conflict coaching to individuals who cannot get those they are in dispute with to mediate, but want guidance on how to have difficult conversations and resolve conflict more peacefully.

Gabriel opened his own mediation practice in 2023 and has continued to study restorative justice and mediation and is continually training to better serve his clients.