I agree with this. Successful mediation is a lot more than saying "Let's all get along." There are techniques which professional mediators are trained in and experience helps. It is very much an art which requires talent. It can work, but it will require patient recruiting of trained skilled people as well as development of skills within those presently involved. I think it can work out well for those involved as skills developed here can be transfered to real life employment opportunities.
Fred
On Jun 5, 2005, at 4:35 AM, Rebecca wrote:
On 6/5/05, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
That's why I want to breath new life into the Mediation Committee. I think Mediation shouldn't be another step towards banning either party but a genuine effort at resolving the problem.
--Mgm
The point is that it didn't work before, and there's been no idea of how to fix the issue that ruined things before - that none of us are trained mediators, and most of us simply did not have the skills to bring antagonistic, warring parties together. We'd all like a mediation committee that worked, but wishing doesn't necessarily make it so.
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