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People Mediate is designed to allow people to resolve important matters before they escalate to legal proceedings.  Also, people who are compelled to attend court ordered mediation are welcome to participate as a means to prepare themselves for effectively understanding and using the mediation process. 

OUR CLIENTS

INFORMAL

  • When important business, personal, workplace, neighborhood, community or family matters must be resolved;

  • When seeking timely, sustainable, and cost effective solutions;

  • When complex decisions affecting many stakeholders must be made;

  • Divorce, Parenting, Asset Allocation, Employment, Foreclosures, Debt Relief;

  • Benefits of mediation result primarily from the efforts of each party and secondarily from the influence of the mediator.

 

Get the best results! Decide to attend mediation with an open mind.  Remind yourself that there are many perspectives and many possible solutions that may have never occurred to you.

 

Respect the mediation process. Turning the focus toward the important issues and away from hurt feelings opens the door to practical agreements, even if we have lost respect for or lost the respect of the other person.​

Focus on interests rather than positions.  The term “positions” refers to all of the reasons that someone thinks will prove their “right” to get what they want.  The term “interests” is about all of the reasons for wanting something.

 

Choose to experiment with various approaches.   Mediation may be based on collaboration, this is different from compromise. With collaboration, each person looks for ways to meet their own interests that do not automatically prevent the other person from also meeting their interests.

NON ADVERSARIAL

 

Mediation is a process used to help people reach mutually acceptable agreements

Mediation begins with an opening statement that describes the process.  Some of the important aspects of mediation include:

  • its voluntary nature ─ no one can be forced to mediate;

  • the mediator is an impartial facilitator and does not have any authority to “decide the case;”

  • mediation communications are confidential except where required by law, some of those exceptions include mandatory reporting of child or elder abuse

 

Mediation ends when the people reach an agreement and the mediator “puts it in writing.” 

 

Mediation can also end when:

  • the mediator observes that continuing may take a considerable emotional toll on a person;

  • any of the people are unable or unwilling to continue;

  • there is fraud, duress or an inability to bargain;

  • the mediator is required by law to report concerns of possible child or elder abuse;

  • physical safety becomes a concern.

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