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Introduction:
Susan Dearborn of the Pacific Family Mediation Institute talks
about creating a safe space for mediation. She says this can reduce the possibility
that an intervention will do more harm than good.
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This rough transcript provides a text alternative to audio. We apologize for occasional errors and unintelligible sections (which are marked with ???).
Safe Spaces
Susan Dearborn
Director of the Pacific Family Mediation Institute
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Another technique that I like with everyone is to make short individual
interview and to make sure there aren't
fear issues about violence or domestic violence. Actually that is required in
terms of ethical guidelines for family mediators. But I also do that where there
are more folks who are involved internationally. Where there are a lot of
tensions with parties and so on, because my concerns are with what happens after
the meetings. Will they be safe? So I might again want to have individual
meetings first and make sure I understand what some fears might be as well as
some hopes for the meetings that are coming up.
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I think
presence, just as a human being, is really crucial. You can make a lot of
technical errors if you somehow establish the fact that it's ok to make
mistakes. If I don't know that I'll find it out, or maybe you have a better way
of doing this than anything that I've come up with.
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