| CHARACTERISTICS: |
Transformative Faith-based |
Facilitative or Problem Based |
| Treatment of Conflict |
Conflict viewed as positive; opportunity for moral growth; opening for deeper interpersonal relations; promise of enhanced self-knowledge through spiritual self-examination. |
Conflict viewed as negative; an impasse to be overcome; a problem to be resolved with the aid of the Mediator’s impartiality and expertise. |
| Length of Mediation |
Long Term and open-ended |
Short Term with mediator encouraging clients to meet deadlines. |
| Mediator Function |
Mediator’s role is secondary to client’s. The mediator motivates and encourages empowerment through active choices, exploration of the past, present, and future, and especially through an examination of the clients’ moral convictions. |
Mediator’s role is primary, serving as expert guide and referee. Mediator encourages clients to disengage from the past, and to focus on current problems rather than past history. Conciliation and compromise are stressed. |
| Goals |
The primary goal is personal growth and transformation which allows the client to change the response to conflict. Transformation occurs through the examination of personal convictions in daily life. The mediator encourages spiritual exploration so that clients can reevaluate choices and determine their own goals |
The primary goal is to obtain compromise and resolution of current problems in order to arrive at a legal settlement. The terms and methods are directed by mediator who helps clients stay within defined parameters while adhering to deadlines. |
| Focus |
Unity of body and soul in each client, requiring exploration of the totality of practical, emotional and spiritual needs, vulnerabilities and beliefs that make up the human person. |
Pre-defined and isolated issues targeted for problem solving through compromise, while avoiding emotional entanglements. |
| Consideration of emotions |
Emotional responses are viewed as inherent to conflict resolution process and are to be explored by the clients as they relate to spiritual goals. |
Emotional responses viewed as irrelevant to the issues and are to be strictly controlled by mediator. |
| Options and choices |
Choices and consequences are pondered and scrutinized by clients. |
Choices and consequences are coached and channeled by Mediator |
| Methodology |
Methodology includes exercises in communication and dialoguing; prayer and meditation models in client’s faith; written and reading assignments; discussions on virtue and character, with emphasis on empathy and forgiveness; drafting of personal covenant for future action. |
Methodology entails a neutral facilitative approach which focuses on the on clients’ present issues. Controversy is avoided so that mediator can develop areas for compromise and settlement. |
| Definition of Success |
Greater understanding of self, of the other, and of God yielding empowerment to problem-solve. |
Legal Agreement |
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