Give them applications and the application deadline. In some schools, a counselor conducts individual interviews with students, explaining what mediation is, what the program and training will require, and the commitment students are asked to make. Send letters to the parents of the selected students. Include congratulations and an invitation to stop in and observe the training. Inform them of the time of the parent meeting, if one is included in the training.
Some schools prefer to ask students to fill out an application form.
Advisors or a committee of teachers then make the selection from the written application. Often an written application is followed by an individual interview with the advisor or school counselor. During the phases or steps of the mediation, the mediators help the disputants to communicate and to search for win-win solutions agreeable to both parties. Mediation is confidential and voluntary. Mediators Mediators, who work in teams of two, are facilitators of the process.