Mediation is a process in which a neutral person, the mediator, helps all parties in conflict to resolve their disputes. Mediators have no power to impose a decision or settlement, and have no stake or interest in the outcome.

We will help you transform skepticism and conflict into mutual understanding, creative solutions, and trusting relationships. We often obtain dramatic results, particularly in situations of tough, long-term, and seemingly unmanageable conflict.

With particular expertise in environmental and public policy conflicts, we will help you resolve today’s conflict, and also transform your ability to manage and resolve future disputes.

We are highly experienced in projects involving exceptionally diverse stakeholders with conflicting and strongly held views.

We are particularly interested in ensuring that high-quality scientific and technical information is properly integrated in collaborative processes.

Professional mediation from TMOC enables the participants to

• Have a say in how the mediation process unfolds.

• Discover all the information needed to make a good decision.

• Have their interests and concerns heard, and to hear others’ interests and concerns.

• Participate in developing the best possible solutions to the dispute.

• Engage with others in deciding which solution would best serve the interests of all parties to the dispute.

• Make their own decisions about whether to come to an agreement with others, depending on their interests.

Ethics and integrity are important to us at The Mary Orton Company. Click here to see the standards of the Association for Conflict Resolution by which we offer mediation services.