Self-Determination
This transformative mediation principle allows parties to make voluntary, uncovers, and informed decisions throughout the process.
What is self determination?
This practice requires mediators to abstain from taking sides or showing favoritism during the mediation process.
What is neutrality?
Ethical duty requiring the mediator to foster participants truthfulness and openness.
What is Supporting honesty and candor?
This principle requires to keep all dispute discussions private from outsiders.
What is confidentiality?
Mentor, co-mediate, observe, and network are ways a mediator offers this collaborative support for peers.
What is helping other mediators?
To protect parties empowerment, a mediator must resist these influences from courts, funders, or affiliated organizations that push towards settlement.
What are outside pressures?
A mediator must refrain from these behaviors during and outside of the mediation that might reasonably raise doubts about their fairness.
what are statements or conducts that raise questions about their impartiality?
Mediators must never run a process other than mediation and still call it by this name.
What is mediation?
Mediators are required to explain confidentiality, including applicable rules and exceptions, at this point in the process.
What is the beginning of the first mediation session?
Offering sessions pro bono are at reduced rate demonstrates this commitment to broaden access.
What is making mediation accessible?
When a party struggles to understand or fully participate, the mediator explores these to bolster their ability to engage safely and voluntarily.
What is use a process check in and/or Increase the frequency of reflections in summary to help provide clarity.
To avoid conflicts of interest a mediator must not offer give solicit or accept these from any party.
What are items or service of value?
Before accepting a case a mediator must ensure they can commit these three essentials for an effective process.
What are time attention and resources?
A mediator explains this concept and exceptions to the parties during the during the signing of this.
What is mediation confidentiality and the consent to mediate?
Requesting participant feedback and conducting program evaluations exemplify this scholarly contribution.
What is mediation research and evaluation?
Alongside empowerment, transformative mediation spotlights this dimension - acknowledging each parties perspective and humanity.
What is recognition?
Bonus: How does empowerment and recognition relates to self determination?
This conflict avoidance practice, identifying and declaring potential biases or affiliations before mediation, helps uphold impartiality.
what is conflict of interest disclosure?
This scheduling standard prevents rushing sessions and upholds the integrity of the mediation.
What is allowing sufficient time frame for a quality process?
Information pertaining to the abuse of children or vulnerable adults are considered this.
What are exceptions to mediator confidentiality?
Writing articles speaking at events and hosting workshops build this aspect of community awareness.
What is promoting public understanding of mediation?
When abuse or coercion prevents a participant from freely participating in mediation, the mediator must take this action.
What is terminate the mediation?
In transformative vary, this ongoing internal process helps mediators examine personal assumptions and remain fair to all parties.
What is self reflection of biases?
Upon a party's request, and if rules permit, a mediator may share this, provided it matches their training or experience.
What is general information the mediator is qualified by training or experience to provide?
A mediator may only divulge a parties name identifying information after obtaining this.
What is prior consent?
If a mediator believes a colleague has breached professional standards, they should take this action, while maintaining confidentiality.
What is discussing concerns privately with that mediator?