Objective: Describe mediation and its benefits.

Mediation has been around since early times, but in contemporary culture, it became linked with the legal field and what is termed dispute resolution.

• Read How Does The Mediation Process Work?
• Watch The Stages of Mediation
• Watch The 6 Stages of Mediation
• Include the following considerations as you prepare to discuss mediation:
  • Give an example of when you "intervened" in a conflict.
  • Discuss why it is imperative that a mediator be neutral and have no vested interest in the outcome.
  • What skills might you have to be a mediator?
  • What kinds of mediation would you gravitate toward and why? (for example: employee grievances, domestic problems, community disputes).