New Paradigms in Mediation: Thinking About Our Thinking

Abstract

Trainers of mediators are often asked questions about how to deal with clients who are very protracted in their conflict. Some of the following thoughts, gleaned from preconference institutes conducted by the author at the last three Academy of Family Mediator conferences, may provide the mediator with suggestions leading to more successful mediations. Success is an attitude on the mediator’s part: success is aided when a mediator thinks about how she or he thinks.