• What is the value of conflict? What are the risks of poorly managed disputes?
• What skills do you already possess that may be transferable to being a mediator?
• How do you see yourself using mediation in your current and future personal and professional lives?
• Which philosophy of mediation (facilitative, transformative, or evaluative) aligns with your natural approach to helping others?
• How will this tendency toward one philosophy be beneficial to you as you employ a balanced mediation model?
• How might it be detrimental in your efforts toward a balanced approach?
• What assumptions does your root culture hold about the ideal way to resolve conflict?
• What challenges might you face when disputants do not share your assumptions?