Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- List of tables and figures
- Table of statutes
- Table of cases
- PART I THE PRACTICE OF MEDIATION
- 1 Mediation: Its Definition and History
- 2 The Mediation Process
- 3 The Theory and Philosophy of Mediation
- 4 Specific Types of Mediation
- 5 The Mediator
- 6 The Ethics of Mediation
- 7 Power, Empowerment and Difference in Mediation
- PART II THE LAW OF MEDIATION
- Bibliography
- Index
5 - The Mediator
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- List of tables and figures
- Table of statutes
- Table of cases
- PART I THE PRACTICE OF MEDIATION
- 1 Mediation: Its Definition and History
- 2 The Mediation Process
- 3 The Theory and Philosophy of Mediation
- 4 Specific Types of Mediation
- 5 The Mediator
- 6 The Ethics of Mediation
- 7 Power, Empowerment and Difference in Mediation
- PART II THE LAW OF MEDIATION
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Introduction
This chapter examines the identity of the mediator. Specifically, we will discuss the qualities that mediators may, or should, possess and consider the different mediator styles that individual mediators might adopt. In Chapter 3 we examined the different philosophical perspectives that underpin the mediation process generally: in this chapter we are minded to work out how those theoretical perspectives are translated by the individual at the centre of the process of mediation.
Mediator qualities
In the same way that every person is different, so too, mediators differ. But aside from the obvious physical, intellectual, psychological and emotional differences between individuals, mediators differ in regard to the individual mediation-oriented virtues they possess and the perspective they hold in relation to their work. In this part we examine the qualities of mediators – in particular, the characteristics and values that, in general terms, are regarded as those that might assist a mediator conduct a mediation.
Forrest S (Woody) Mosten, lawyer and mediator, explains his enthusiasm for his craft and his view of the essential qualities of a mediator (Mosten 2001, pp 3, 11).
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- Mediation Law and Practice , pp. 155 - 181Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007