As an alternative to expensive court processes, professional mediation is a model of dispute resolution in which highly trained and skilled, impartial third parties - called mediators, assist participants through a structured process,  to communicate respectfully, and develop new options to resolve their disputes cooperatively and collaboratively. 

Nationally Accredited mediators facilitate genuine dialogue and cooperation between particpants to enable much greater understanding of each participant - their needs and interests. This helps to strengthen or repair relationships, encourage creative thinking, informed decision making and robust resolution. Formal or informal agreements can be made quickly, privately, peacefully and effectively without the stress and expense of litigation or uncertainty of court battles.

In mediation, Family Dispute Resolution, conciliation and facilitation, practitioners aim to address power imbalances, give equal voice to parties, to be unbiased and impartial. In Family Dispute Resolution however, practitioners will at the same time, attempt to ensure that agreements made, are in the best interests of children. Conciliation adds the element of advice to parties.

Mediation and Family Dispute Resolution, conciliation and facilitation services are respectful, peaceful, cooperative processes of dispute resolution and dispute management, designed to assist parties to confidentially and systematically isolate, and explore all issues in dispute in a private setting. Options for resolving the dispute are discussed and new options are generated, reality tested and future paced, and can lead to agreement which is printed and signed by the parties. Mediated agreements can be legally binding if desired by the parties.

Mediation is useful for all types of disputes in workplace, organisational, government departmental, family, commercial, community and cross borders, as long as there are no safety issues eg current or threat of violence, child abuse etc. A willingness by each party and ability to negotiate are necessary for successful mediation. 
 
In mediation and family dispute resolution, parties are required to speak respectfully, to work through all issues, consider each others needs and develop robust agreements that  each can live with.

InterMEDIATE Dispute Management's excellent model for mediation or family dispute resolution utilises the best processes from Australian designed models of mediation and family dispute resolution, parties are assisted in the development of options for the resolution of these issues. Parties are encouraged to explore the usefulness of these options and to select their BATNA (Best Alternative To Negotiated Agreement) to reach an agreement that is robust, fair, and meets their interests and needs.

EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT. InterMEDIATE Dispute Management Pty Ltd utilises a highly cost effective co-mediation model, where a male and a female mediator both manage the mediation sessions together. This offers greater gender balancing, impartiality and  greater resources available for attending to parties, option generation and agreement development. Co-mediation allows for a complete mediated agreement to be finalised, printed, checked together and signed at the end of the session.

Mediation does not include or replace counselling or legal advice.

Some of the benefits of mediation are: