Winning in Mediation
Winning. Whenever I see the word, by itself, all I can think of is Charlie Sheen’s 2012 manic diatribe. “Winning! Wow! Winning!” Which is why I almost dropped my teeth when my friend told me she’d “won” her mediation. I wanted to take her aside, and educate her about “winning” in mediation. Winning goes hand-in-glove with competition, or with evaluative mediation, which all of us classically-trained facilitative mediators realize is a “no-no.” Winning in mediation presup