Why try mediation first?

Mediation allows individuals, families, neighbors, businesses and other organizations the opportunity to:

• Resolve disputes privately.

• Resolve disputes quickly, before they escalate and result in the need to use more expensive, time-consuming and stressful adversarial conflict resolution methods.

• Preserve valuable personal and professional relationships that could be damaged by using adversarial conflict resolution methods.

• Resolve disputes with the potential for more creative and satisfying results than are often available through the courts.

• Decide for themselves what a fair settlement to their conflict should be.

• Learn effective communication and negotiation techniques that can be used in the future to prevent additional problems.