Reputations - Solving the conflict through mediation can preserve reputations by helping the parties come to a common ground in a confidential setting. This reduces the risk of gossip and rumors. Expands Options - Mediating eliminates no other rights or remedies. You conflict can still go to court, file disciplinary reports, or end the relationship. The process is designed to focus attention on the present situation and future expectations, rather than past disagreements.
Mediation encourages people to deal efficiently with conflict and craft a solution.
You leave the mediation with a sense of closure and the opportunity to move on. Voluntary - Mediation is a voluntary process. Anyone can decline or withdraw at any point. Even when mediation is offered as an alternative to or in conjunction with the judicial process, the student can choose not to participate and pursue other available options. Each of the volunteers have received a minimum of the required 40 hours of classroom education in the techniques of dispute resolution and are well qualified to serve and be appointed as a mediator or neutral by the courts of the State of Texas.