INKOVEMA Podcast „Well through time“

#36 – Observing mediators… – or is arguing with mediators more fun?

In conversation with Justus Heck

Well through time. The podcast about mediation, conflict coaching and organisational consulting.

Contents:

Third party in the dispute

• Development of conflict third parties; presence of third parties justifies conflict third parties
• Importance of imaginations by conflict parties about potential third parties
• Conflict argumentation = competition for third parties

Competition for third place:

• With the judging third party: How can the judge be persuaded to make a particular legal decision?
• With the mediating third party: Even in front of mediators, you don't want to appear stupid or unseemly.

Escalations in mediation:

• Interaction crisis or proof of trust
• Breakout behaviour from the third-guarded convention is only permitted to a limited extent.
• Meeting policing tasks

Interim conclusion: The – perceived as neutral – presence of a third party is decisive and all methods should be selected in such a way that they do not jeopardise this neutrality.

Services of sociological observation of mediation:

• Systematisation offers for mediative phenomena
• Sharpening a realistic view of your own activities
• Mitigation of consequential problems that arise or would arise from self-idealisations

> Mediators of the world, take heart and a dictaphone!

Left:

• Justus Heck, University of Bielefeld (Link)
• Justus Heck's publications (Link)