Do You Guys Have Peer Mediation?

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Do You Guys Have Peer Mediation?

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Do you guys have a separate staff that is peer mediation. Like not a mod or super mod or an admin, a separate group that helps people with their problems and provides counselin or are the staff the counselor type figures?
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I'm actually a trained peer mediator, as my support groups applications which are on file may reflect. HelpNet does not actually do MEDIATION. They can help you with YOUR problem but a mediation has to be a live and rolling thing. With administrative permission, I'd be glad to perform some kind of mediation on the chat server or something like that because I am trained. I have a certificate from the Center for Conflic Resolutions in my local area (not posting that) and I have a number of years of experience in that field.
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Originally posted by Slaw@Oct 24 2004, 03:36 AM

Do you guys have a separate staff that is peer mediation. Like not a mod or super mod or an admin, a separate group that helps people with their problems and provides counselin or are the staff the counselor type figures?


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Technically we dont have Peer Mediation..If I remember correctly isnt that like sitting down and talking to the people involved in the problem? (I should know this I was a Peer Mediator:shy: ) But yeah HelpNet, Chat, and the support groups are just to help YOU with the problems that you have. Minus the "I" statements and all that.
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Jess, peer mediation is a form of conflict resolution that is much different than arbitration. In arbitration, like a court, a neutral party (being a judge) will hear both sides and then decide what is going to happen. In peer MEDIATION, the "judge" is there only as a faciliatator. It's up to the parties at hand to come up with their own solution to the problem, and the moderator is there only to push them in the right direction and keep order.
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oh okay.
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