The Concept of Mediation Essay – Description
Part 1. Describe your experience ‘being a cow’, or a “ewe” or “Columbo” or another of his ‘mindfully getting in the middle’ strategies. Be sure to explain the strategy as well and how it connects to mediation or CAR.
Part 2. What is your favorite ‘Go to the Balcony” strategy? What ‘trick’ do you use to avoid responding to a triggering event/action?
Part 3. View the 30 minute mediation role-play below before completing this discussion.
Turn to the reading by Kraybill this week, Chapter 2, p. 17. How did the mediator help the parties? Kraybill explains three possible ways. Attached is the reading
Describe whether or not this mediator fulfilled those three ways of helping parties.
Now think about a time you were involved in efforts to resolve a conflict as a party to the conflict or as a third-party. Did you begin by focusing on the people, the problem or the process? In what ways may your intervention have contributed to an escalation or de-escalation of the conflict?
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