How Does a Mediation Actually Work?

There are several models that you can choose for your mediation. In a traditional, on-site, mediation, both parties and their attorneys meet with their mediator in a central, physical location.

The mediation will require three rooms - one will be a joint meeting room where all parties and their attorneys can meet. The other two rooms will be reserved for the respective parties.

Your mediator may use the joint meeting room for opening statements, before directing the parties to their own rooms. At that point, the mediator will go back and forth and talk to the parties and their lawyers individually. Your mediator will use these private meetings to clarify your interests and to better understand your bottom line.

Your mediator will keep confidential anything you tell him or her. During the course of going back and forth, the mediator will encourage the parties to compromise in an effort to reach a solution. The mediator will only reveal one side’s offer to the othen with express permission.

Innovative Mediation Solutions also offer a virtual mediation platform where we use Skype and electronic conference equipment to conduct the sessions. The process is identical except that instead of going back and forth between two rooms, the mediator will use his/her mute button to conduct private sessions.
Virtual mediations have the advantage of keeping costs down and allowing parties in remote locations to participate from their homes or offices.

Innovative Mediation Solutions offers both traditional and virtual mediation options. We have physical facilities with mediation rooms, and we offer mediation services using state of the art video-conference equipment. Virtual mediation allows parties and witnesses from anywhere in the country to participate from their own locations, and eliminates travel and lodging costs.

Jonathan Ginsberg, Registered Mediator
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