FEBRUARY 28, 2019
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  appreciate how these settings were used by the mediator to get information that they needed and give parties an opportunity to discuss and reflflect on their conflflict and possibly map a pathway towards fifinding a peaceful resolve.
After the fifirst round, there were two more rounds in which each participant would rotate their roles between “Mediator”, “Advocate” and “Client”. This was an opportunity to really sit and reflflect on each
role that you were playing. This made me have a deeper connection with the lens of the different parties in a Mediation room. I found it interesting that the rules of the competition were designed for you to not only sharpen the skill you were good at and score points based on your strongest skill. but, instead made sure that you had the lens and perspective of all the roles. This alone made me more conscientious about the mindset when sitting in each of these seats and made me signifificantly value the structure of the mediation tournament.
At the end of the tournament, it was nice to have won my team an award. But I left that tournament with a new energy and passion for a process that I had not even heard of just a week before. That tournament and exposure was the start to my participation in many INADR Mock Mediation tournaments and even starting the Mock Mediation Club of Georgia Southern University. At its peak, the club had over 40 student members and developed our own cases for simulation, met at least once a week to discuss/simulate mediation, created a training program with modules and pursued learning a professional skill of signifificant value to us as students.
Being a tournament participant, taught me many valuable lessons and skills through the mediation process. Many of theses skills I use often in my professional and personal engagements. Perhaps, I will have an opportunity in a future article to share about what professional skills and lessons were learned during my time as a participant.

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