Mediation Services

“We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to have to learn to live together and if we are going to live together, we have to talk”.
(Eleanor Roosevelt)

In the simplest terms, Mediators work with Parties in dispute with each other so that these Parties-to any conflict or dispute-can have really difficult conversations with each other in a safe way and in a safe environment. Mediators design and manage a process for the difficult conversations and the Parties manage the content and the decision making. Mediators are impartial (or fair or balanced or even-handed) in their dealings with Parties and they can’t benefit from or be disadvantaged by any of the decisions that parties make.

In this environment it is more likely that parties who were in dispute with each other can work together to make decisions that are mutually acceptable (and the Mediator records those decisions).