Food for Thought.

I often find as a mediator that a party will sum something up in a succinct and meaningful way or pass a comment that provides food for thought. Today we did a co-mediation intake for a party who himself practises counselling for a career. When asked what he understood mediation to be, he immediately replied: "Trying to obtain a worthwhile and sustainable agreement without going to court".A rather good way of summing up the purpose of mediation I thought. Later in the same session he volunteered that people have at times asked him, "did your work(as therapist) help you with having a child or did having a child help you more with your work".Bit difficult to answer that one, but interesting to ponder all the same. Mike Emerson