What is a Professional Mediator?:
Use of mediation to settle disputes is one of the highest indicators of civilization.
The process is the participation of individuals who desire to settle conflicts as mature adults, using their intelligence rather than emotion or violence. The use of any other process is just that ... using a less desirable process.
Intelligent disagreeing parties then, solicit the assistance of a skilled professional facilitator or Mediator to help them mutually solve problems.
This Mediator must be highly-skilled, and equally motivated, to help achieve the mutual highest good.
Professional Mediators must perform at the utmost levels of integrity, intellectual-honesty and experience. The Mediator shall have no conflict-of -interest amongst those participating in the mediation process.
This network strives for process improvement to ensure the highest quality mediation services to the public. We are developing a compendium of “Best Practices” of a comprehensive integrated set of guidelines to provide superior mediation services.
We strive for a 'promised exchange of value' when we mediate with clients. Always, value added and superior customer service.
What we are not:
We are not managed by, nor connected to, courts or city governments. We are credentialed neutral professional Mediators.
This mediation network is comprised of diverse, highly-qualified, experienced, independent professionals collaborating to provide you expert conflict resolution mediation (never volunteer mediators).
We are entirely independent of any undue influence, or pressures, that tend to take away from the pure premise of mediation--that being, mediation should never be forced upon any individual. For mediation to take place, both parties mutually agree to mediate and mediation is private. Your privacy is protected by various dispute resolution laws.
Each party to the dispute chooses to participate and may discontinue at any time. Engaging in mediation does not prevent using litigation should you decide that is your only option. The mediator has no authority to impose a decision or force any particular outcome. The Mediator is a neutral, impartial professional helping both parties to reach agreement.
When you come to mediation, this is your forum; we work for you.
What do mediators do?
One size mediation does not fit all. That is where customized and tailored mediation comes in through careful analysis and planning.
Mediators may work as fact-finders, equalizers, communicators, and healers to resolve conflicts.
Mediators help people reconcile their interests by bringing them into negotiations, by facilitating communication, and by helping them search for a solution. Mediators help to encourage the parties to negotiate to reach their own shared decision. Equalizers help balance the power between opposed parties, so that they can negotiate a fair and mutual solution. Healers may help to repair injured relationships. Mediators identify problems that have led to hostility and strife and begin to build relations of trust. Mediators listen to the disputing parties and acknowledge their feelings. Identification of interests is made.
Moreover, problem identification is key to successful mediations. If the problem is not identified, or misidentified--there can be no proper solution. Expert, experienced Mediators, are key.
Each party to the dispute has a seat at the table and the opportunity to air differences, share emotions and concerns, and arrive at mutual agreements to halt conflict in its tracks.
How do conflicts escalate or boil over?
Generally, people have numerous ways to try to resolve disagreements and conflicts.
Let's imagine a pot of boiling water on a stove.
Some, in conflict, do not talk, even shunning each other (avoidance). The conflict predictably escalates.
The unwatched, simmering pot, comes to a rolling boil.
Some in conflict engage in power contests (compete) or appeal for an imposed decision based on their respective rights (the courts). When this happens, disputing parties lose control of their decision-making and have turned their outcomes over to someone else. When that happens, litigation is costly, stressful, and non-empowering.
Disputants may try to talk to reconcile their interests (collaborate). Hard feelings may have developed; communication is hindered and emotions boil over.
This is where the mediator often times is called.
But, disputants can enter the mediation process early, and at any time; but, the early on--the better.
All of the above--is where the concept of 'tailored mediation' begins. No one way is right for every type of conflict.
We structure the mediation with reliable, repeatable methods, with the goal to tailor the mediation to your unique dispute needs, simultaneously. That, takes expertise.
Unresolved conflict escalates to chronic, costly, and harmful levels because no one is paying attention to the conflict or, even if someone is, no one sets limits or no one intervenes.
Don't wait until the pot boils over.
VISION:
Help for life’s conflicts is promptly and compassionately given.
MISSION:
To provide mediation services that touch, teach, and bring peace-of-mind.
VALUES:
Compassion, Integrity, Respect, Excellence.
(c) GE Klein, all rights reserved 2015
Use of mediation to settle disputes is one of the highest indicators of civilization.
The process is the participation of individuals who desire to settle conflicts as mature adults, using their intelligence rather than emotion or violence. The use of any other process is just that ... using a less desirable process.
Intelligent disagreeing parties then, solicit the assistance of a skilled professional facilitator or Mediator to help them mutually solve problems.
This Mediator must be highly-skilled, and equally motivated, to help achieve the mutual highest good.
Professional Mediators must perform at the utmost levels of integrity, intellectual-honesty and experience. The Mediator shall have no conflict-of -interest amongst those participating in the mediation process.
This network strives for process improvement to ensure the highest quality mediation services to the public. We are developing a compendium of “Best Practices” of a comprehensive integrated set of guidelines to provide superior mediation services.
We strive for a 'promised exchange of value' when we mediate with clients. Always, value added and superior customer service.
What we are not:
We are not managed by, nor connected to, courts or city governments. We are credentialed neutral professional Mediators.
This mediation network is comprised of diverse, highly-qualified, experienced, independent professionals collaborating to provide you expert conflict resolution mediation (never volunteer mediators).
We are entirely independent of any undue influence, or pressures, that tend to take away from the pure premise of mediation--that being, mediation should never be forced upon any individual. For mediation to take place, both parties mutually agree to mediate and mediation is private. Your privacy is protected by various dispute resolution laws.
Each party to the dispute chooses to participate and may discontinue at any time. Engaging in mediation does not prevent using litigation should you decide that is your only option. The mediator has no authority to impose a decision or force any particular outcome. The Mediator is a neutral, impartial professional helping both parties to reach agreement.
When you come to mediation, this is your forum; we work for you.
What do mediators do?
One size mediation does not fit all. That is where customized and tailored mediation comes in through careful analysis and planning.
Mediators may work as fact-finders, equalizers, communicators, and healers to resolve conflicts.
Mediators help people reconcile their interests by bringing them into negotiations, by facilitating communication, and by helping them search for a solution. Mediators help to encourage the parties to negotiate to reach their own shared decision. Equalizers help balance the power between opposed parties, so that they can negotiate a fair and mutual solution. Healers may help to repair injured relationships. Mediators identify problems that have led to hostility and strife and begin to build relations of trust. Mediators listen to the disputing parties and acknowledge their feelings. Identification of interests is made.
Moreover, problem identification is key to successful mediations. If the problem is not identified, or misidentified--there can be no proper solution. Expert, experienced Mediators, are key.
Each party to the dispute has a seat at the table and the opportunity to air differences, share emotions and concerns, and arrive at mutual agreements to halt conflict in its tracks.
How do conflicts escalate or boil over?
Generally, people have numerous ways to try to resolve disagreements and conflicts.
Let's imagine a pot of boiling water on a stove.
Some, in conflict, do not talk, even shunning each other (avoidance). The conflict predictably escalates.
The unwatched, simmering pot, comes to a rolling boil.
Some in conflict engage in power contests (compete) or appeal for an imposed decision based on their respective rights (the courts). When this happens, disputing parties lose control of their decision-making and have turned their outcomes over to someone else. When that happens, litigation is costly, stressful, and non-empowering.
Disputants may try to talk to reconcile their interests (collaborate). Hard feelings may have developed; communication is hindered and emotions boil over.
This is where the mediator often times is called.
But, disputants can enter the mediation process early, and at any time; but, the early on--the better.
All of the above--is where the concept of 'tailored mediation' begins. No one way is right for every type of conflict.
We structure the mediation with reliable, repeatable methods, with the goal to tailor the mediation to your unique dispute needs, simultaneously. That, takes expertise.
Unresolved conflict escalates to chronic, costly, and harmful levels because no one is paying attention to the conflict or, even if someone is, no one sets limits or no one intervenes.
Don't wait until the pot boils over.
VISION:
Help for life’s conflicts is promptly and compassionately given.
MISSION:
To provide mediation services that touch, teach, and bring peace-of-mind.
VALUES:
Compassion, Integrity, Respect, Excellence.
(c) GE Klein, all rights reserved 2015