The El Paso Dispute Resolution Center is seeking volunteers who would like to become Trained Mediators and assist El Paso residents to help mediate their disputes.
Who makes a good mediator?
-Strong "people skills"
-Able to be directive
-Comfortable with high emotion, argument, interruptions, tears
-Respected and trusted
-Imaginative in solving problems
-Patient as disputants inch their way to towards resolution
-Able to empathize and be gentle, to withhold judgment
-Impartial: putting aside one's own options, reactions, and even some principles