This question came up at the conference of Integrated Mediation. The title of the conference was “Understanding 3.0”. It took place the 28th und 29th of November 2015 in Cologne. The title should introduce the main conference’s issue, whether and how mediation is able to improve society. The result of our discussion was, that mediation could be able to improve society if not human evolution would be against this approach. For that mediation will take off, but later.

One could explain it like that:

When mediation takes off, humans will do next step of evolution. 

This video below has been recorded for the conference. It should help understanding what we need to do if we want mediation arriving in society:

On our conference that video raised discussions for more than one hour. Participants agreed, to deepen that issue everywhere. They understood that understanding what makes mediation attractive for humans will influence the market, the behave and our thinking. They also understood that thinking in the way of mediation is different. Not before we will understand its way of thinking, we can understand mediation.

The way is the aim

We are used to think in solutions. A mediator thinks in processing matters. He doesn’t care for solution since he knows it will be developed by interactions. Waiting solutions needs a lot of trust: trusting in us, trusting in things that fit together, trusting in benefits. As long as we trust in power more than in wisdom, how can we trust in mediation? It needs some experience to learn that wisdom is smarter than power and on the long run more effective.

So lets try some wisdom in order to experience mediation.

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