What is Mediation? Why use Mediation?
Nancy J. Wise - Experience, Training and Qualifications
Mediate conflicts between employer and employee, landlord and tenant, consumer and merchant, neighbors, friends and family
Divorce Mediation to decide custody, visitation and property
Mediate conflicts and disagreements between parents and teenagers, teens
Instruction in Peer mediation skills for schools and school districts
Mediated plea bargain conducted through the court system
Mediations for victim with offender for closure, peace and/or restitution
Mediating public policy issues with community factions.
Mediating workplace, family and group conflicts and miscommunications in a safe environment



Mediation and Conflict Management are confidential processes in which conflicting parties voluntarily meet with an impartial Mediator. The Mediator, a neutral third party, will assist the parties to work towards their own resolution of the conflict.


As a rule, people are not taught how to handle their conflicts. As a result, relationships end, or are never what they could have been, had they been able to successfully resolve some, usually minor, dispute. Mediation and Conflict Management provide the opportunity for persons to be in a safe setting with a neutral party and have a conversation. One of the main reasons that these processes are so successful is that the parties have the chance to freely and safely discuss feelings and the issues. Since a Mediator is trained to handle emotional situations, feelings and emotions are not only allowed, but encouraged. As the emotions are addressed and processed, the issue itself can then be approached and result in a mutually agreeable resolution. Mediation and Conflict Management, therefore, are empowering processes for the participants.

~Nancy Wise

 

Nancy Wise, 205 Cloudview Dr., Austin, Texas 78745
512.707.9903 (ph/fax) • 512.914.8525 (cell) • wisemed@austin.rr.com

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