What is "
mediation"?
The owners of a dispute are emotionally committed to their unique perspectives. When those involved in the dispute agree to allow a clear-headed, and painstakingly
neutral mediator to use sophisticated techniques to help them form
confidential solutions, everyone wins. Countless hours or years of heartache, expense and time of "taking it to court" are saved, and a solution may take days or even hours instead of years. By opting for mediation people save years of misery, financial burden, and an uncertain conclusion when attorneys and courts become involved.
- Mediation will only succeed if the mediator is well trained, experienced and painstakingly neutral.
- Parties need to come to the mediation with open minds and a basic willingness to succeed.
- Parties will sign an agreement to mediate to assure everyone is attending in good faith.
- A mediated agreement can be legally binding if it needs to be.
- The participants and witnesses of a mediation are protected by a confidentiality agreement.
- The owners of the dispute are asked to sign an agreement to mediate.
- Mediation can do more than provide a solution to a dispute: it can repair relationships.
- The parties are always in control of the process of a mediation.
