Reflexive Mediation: with a Sustainable Perspective

How do we as mediators ensure that our beliefs are not distracted or obstructed by challenges from pressure to be efficient and meet budgets? How do we maintain the qualities of mediation? This book encourages mediators to look further than merely discussing skills and techniques, and to take up the personal challenge of being conscious of the deeper values and beliefs that drives them. It argues that in mediation the ultimate responsibility for reaching a satisfactory outcome to a conflict belongs to the parties, but that every mediator has a responsibility for preserving mediation as a unique process in future sustainable conflict resolution processes.