Mediation - Resources
The professional and volunteer mediators and staff of Mitchell Mediation have worked together for many years at the Worcester based Community Mediation Center, Family Services Mediation, The Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution and Training, and other mediation programs. Together these mediators and trainers have more than fifty years of cumulative experience in areas of court based mediation, community/neighborhood disputes, landlord/tenant, employment, family, divorce, elder, nonprofit, religious, and international mediation . They have trained hundreds of community mediators, nonprofit organizations, human resources associations, law enforcement, the United Nations, the World Bank, and other associations, professional groups, and individuals.
Mediation is an informal, voluntary and confidential process in which a trained professional neutral (a mediator) facilitates understanding, communication, and negotiation between disputing parties. Mediators are non-judgmental. Mediators will not tell you what to do, rather they will work with disputing parties to help them listen - and through that help them to craft their own solutions to their conflict.
Mediation differs from arbitration or adjudication or litigation in that a mediator makes no decisions, does not advocate for either side, and does not provide advice. The mediators guide the process, and the parties make the decisions.
Mediation follows five core values:
1) Mediation is confidential and 2) voluntary, 3) Mediators are neutral.
The parties involved must have 4) informed consent and 5) self determine the result of the mediation.
Mediation is often quicker and less expensive than litigation and allows the parties to work out their own solutions in private rather than having a result imposed on them by the court, arbitrator, or other third party (some results might vary).
Mediation differs from arbitration or adjudication or litigation in that a mediator makes no decisions, does not advocate for either side, and does not provide advice. The mediators guide the process, and the parties make the decisions.
Mediation follows five core values:
1) Mediation is confidential and 2) voluntary, 3) Mediators are neutral.
The parties involved must have 4) informed consent and 5) self determine the result of the mediation.
Mediation is often quicker and less expensive than litigation and allows the parties to work out their own solutions in private rather than having a result imposed on them by the court, arbitrator, or other third party (some results might vary).
Learn more at Mitchell Mediation, 290 Turnpike Road, Suite 150-383, Westborough, MA 01581
[email protected] | 508.615.1654
[email protected] | 508.615.1654