Mediation Demonstration: Correct & Incorrect Practices- osullivansolutions.ie

The brief was to demonstrate a mediation process where mistakes in practice will be made and where members of the audience are invited to comment on screen or verbally.
This is a demonstration roleplay done by Gerry O'Sullivan done at The Mediator's Institute of Ireland's annual conference in October 2023.
In this demonstration, Gerry deviates from the conventional mediation framework and does not hear the full narratives of participants at this joint session, followed by listing their issues and going through them one by one.
Instead, she concentrates on their thinking and the inferences and assumptions they made at the start of their developing negative view of each other.
The goal is to demonstrate how our initial inferences and assumptions, based on our own unique paradigm, can impact our perception and interpretation of all subsequent events. When this is done, it leads to mutual understanding and creates the context whereby remaining issues are solved more easily.
This methodology can be used at appropriate times throughout a mediation process.