Comments on: Notes on Terminology Choice

By: Article clipping for clients: another note to Geoff Sharp | Mediator Tech

Article clipping for clients: another note to Geoff Sharp | Mediator Tech — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:55:39 +0000

[...] face in their work or home life. It doesn’t matter whether or not those are problems that a professional mediator can or should assist. The telephone version of this conversation is not [...]

By: Judy

Judy — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:16:02 +0000

This is a really nice discussion of the choices you have made. While I think the beginning is perhaps over-long, I also don’t know how many people out there cling to these hyphenated monsters, so I probably shouldn’t comment. As I work more with people who come through the community justice center, I am becoming very aware of language and of how it needs to be pitched to the people you are trying to connect with. Your understanding of how the clients view mediation (which is definitely not as an alphabet soup, “ADR,” kind of thing), but a much more murky understanding of it, keeps us honest in a way. That is, if we don’t fall back on jargon and we do recognize the complexity of what we offer in small “m” mediation, we will communicate much better with those who come to us for help. I personally think “keep it simple” is something we should be saying into the mirror every morning…

By: Christine

Christine — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 13:02:29 +0000

Nicely put. You make it very clear as to what you are talking about when you use the “m” word.