Many people believe that reaching a resolution is totally dependent on working only with professionals in the courtroom. In fact, there are other alternatives available, such as Mediation. Mediation, as I mentioned in previous episodes, is designed to help individuals, groups, or companies as an alternative dispute resolution service to assist in conflict resolution outside of court. Mediation is one option available for conflicting parties to utilize when they desire privacy, a sense of balanced control in the input of intervention formation, and need flexible assistance that can adjust to each party’s availability.

Time to make the second step to conflict resolution. Step forward in increments to ensure that each stone of the conflict is turned over to expose each link of the conflict!

Hello! Dr. Sanders here. Thanks for being a faithful supporter and tuning in to this program.

Thanks for listening to Soft Power, Hard Peace! As I mentioned, it makes me feel good to be here with you.

I hope everyone is doing well! We made it to the end of the week. I am here to provide information to help with decisions about conflict resolution through mediation.

As always, I am glad this moment was available for us to connect! Time spent here with you all is short, but I try to make each second count. I believe it is good to make each second count, so you know that help is available, even though time is limited here together as we connect.

It is time to move a bit closer and leave the Failures of Grace of Mediation behind. Today, let’s redirect our attention to the next topic, Walking in Faith: A Step Closer Across the Bridge Towards Conflict Resolution. This week’s episode, Walking in Faith: A Step Closer Across the Bridge Towards Conflict Resolution, is designed to help people with conflicts take that second step. I hope that after listening to today’s podcast, someone is empowered to continue forward.

Being in the presence of others with conflict always reminds me of my first step across the bridge alone. In fact, it circles me back with a reflection of looking in the mirror of the past and seeing my very own feet planted on the first steps of the bridge, standing alone before resolving.

That reflection in the mirror reminds me of the insight into how it feels to stand alone at the bottom of the bridge. It drives my desire to be a good Mediator and do the right thing in life by empowering others to face conflict with balance and fairness, that second step towards resolution.

I see many people of different cultural backgrounds and professions with different daily problems. The way individuals face issues in the world has evolved with time. There is a push for Mediators to become more aware of the trends of the various cultures and professions of society, since world problems have changed.

Credits:

Sanders, S. PhD. (Host) (2026, February 13). Episode 4. Walking in Faith: A Step Closer Across the Bridge Towards Conflict Resolution. [Audio podcast] Soft Power, Hard Peace. https://rss.com/podcasts/soft-power-hard-peace.

Scripting & Show notes:

Scripting and research by Dr. Sarah Sanders.

[Corporate Music] by Dmitrii Spis, licensed via Pixabay

The outro notes:

Walking in Faith: A Step Closer Across the Bridge Towards Conflict Resolution was written and produced by [Dr. Sarah Sanders].

Failures of Grace of Mediation

Good morning! This is Dr. Sanders. Thanks for joining me here. You are tuned into Soft Power, Hard Peace!

I hope you are all doing well and staying safe out there as you commute and go throughout your day!

Thanks for waking up with me this morning! I am thankful for your time and connection!

I discussed Benefits of Mediation and Taming the Fears of Mediation in the previous weeks. It was beneficial for those two topics to be discussed to help people in conflict to be aware of the available alternative dispute resolution interventions. I hope that helped. There will be more to come.

In this episode, I hope to reach conflicting individuals out there who still need that motivation. Fair and balanced mediation has the potential of success when the right Mediator is selected to deliver the most appropriate and effective communication between parties with no puppet strings attached! It is necessary to be able to maintain neutrality in mediation by being able to dive in and brainstorm issues from a holistic point of view.

Conflicts that surface with the conversation of resolution may show signs of distasteful pressures of mediation. Not all mediation sessions will result in resolution. It takes an honest Mediator not to avoid speaking on the cons or distasteful pressures of conflict resolution.

Negative outcomes of mediation are possible. Let’s not wipe that off the slate! It can happen!

Final decisions of mediation are dependent on how the conflicting parties can work together and agree! I mentioned this in previous episodes. Fair mediation sessions holistically exploit the low instances of conflicts that remain unresolved. It is a good time to now shift gears and talk briefly about Failures of Graceful Taste of Mediation; this balances the conversation.

Mediators with a holistic view can exploit the low instances of conflicts not being able to be resolved through mediation. I know it may seem strange, but I get the question all the time, Dr. Sanders, how can you believe in one thing and tell people another? How can you function as a Mediator when you have certain beliefs? When I enter the demand for squash conflict in mediation, I accept the challenge of not falling into jumping into arbitration. It is intriguing to have the challenge, but at the same time, I find most passion from life in balancing things out by implying my sharpest skills, which are helping others analyze and brainstorm ways for implementing improvement.

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I hope to spend more time with you. I hope I can offer you the information that you need to make better decisions about alternative dispute resolution services. The next podcast will be about……

Please, travel safely out there on the roadways! Remember, phone down so you can freely look around! Both hands on that wheel!

No texting while driving. Until we meet again, Dr. SS!

Sanders, S. PhD. (Host) (2026, February 6). Episode 3. Failures of Grace of Mediation. [Audio podcast] Soft Power, Hard Peace. https://rss.com/podcasts/soft-power-hard-peace.