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About Us:

Midlands Mediation Network 

At various times throughout the 1990s the idea of mediation as a primary form of conflict resolution seemed to grasp the imagination of more people than it usually did. And all across the region organisations were set up, mediators were trained and new services reached out into our communities.

Although mediation has quite ancient roots, even the oldest of services around at that time was barely in its teens. And so the rapid growth in mediation bought forth a new generation of practitioners all looking for the guidance of an older sibling.

 At the end of that decade, I was one such nascent being. As I stood there blinking in the bright light of expectation wondering what shape and colour my new mediation service should be, I was told of a meeting that just might help me make up my mind. 

More than a decade later, I have the privilege of being chair of the organisation that emerged at that meeting. Many of the faces may have changed in that time, and the landscape has inevitably altered, but we still gather to meet the aims you’ll find illustrated here. 

As we now prepare for our adolescence we have defined a new beginning, outlined a new direction and from the consolidation of all that we have achieved, we are now ready to continue our development into maturity.

 My needs of the network have changed over the years. The service we have developed in North Staffordshire continues to benefit from the wisdom of my peers as we meet each quarter to discover and discuss what is new in our profession. The time and energy I have saved by not having to reinvent the wheel throughout the early growth of my service can now be used, if you’ll forgive me, to reinvent the wheel. 

Each year discovers a new area of conflict that can benefit from mediation, and our practices must change and adapt accordingly. Sometimes we develop and teach one another, and at other times we learn from one another and develop. But at all times, we share.

George Tzilivakis 

Chair

January 2009

 

Mission Statement

 

The Midlands Mediation Network is…

 …an inclusive forum of interested parties committed to working together to raise the profile of mediation as a positive means of resolving conflict. The forum will act to ensure the effective development and sharing of information and good practice within all aspects of mediation across the East and West Midlands.

 Brief History

Midlands Mediation Network

 An inclusive network of interested parties committed to working together to raise the profile of mediation as a profession.  The network members will act to enable the effective development and sharing of information and best practice within all aspects of mediation across Central England.

 The network aims to….

  • Identify and meet the individual aims of all members

  • Promote quality connected to practice standards and professional development

  • Develop and maintain agreed practice standards across the network 

  • Provide focused relevant accessible support 

  • Proactively exchange ideas, knowledge and experience 

  • Promote quality mediation locally and regionally 

  • Ensure individuals, communities and other agencies are educated as to the process and benefits of mediation

  • Ensure effective liaison between the network and its local services with internal agencies, other professions and other relevant structures and networks.

  • Maintain and promote the importance of independence of local services and mediators

Constitution:

Objectives

1.1 Identify and meet the individual aims of all members

1.2 Develop professionalism of local/regional service delivery and develop agreed practice standards across the region

1.3 Provide clearly focused, relevant and accessible support to all members

1.4 Promote and provide an opportunity for the exchange of ideas, knowledge and experience

1.5 Act as a means of promoting mediation locally and regionally

1.6 Ensure that individuals, communities and other agencies are educated as to the process and benefits of mediation

1.7 Ensure effective liaison between the network and its local services with external agencies, other professions and other relevant structures and networks

1.8 Maintain and promote the importance of independence of local services and mediators

 

Committee Members Details:

Chair

George Tzilivakis.

Co-ordinator

Mediation North Staffs.

PO Box 2306,

1st Floor, Tontine Buildings

Hanley, Stoke on Trent

ST1 1WN.

TEL: 01782 280100

email: mediation@nstaffs.freeserve.co.uk

Vice-Chair:

Dave Clifton.

Lead Officer,

Birmingham Mediation Service,

PO Box 11762, Birmingham

B3 3PL

Tel: 01214646560.

email: dave.clifton@birmingham.gov.uk

Secretary: Position Vacant    
Vice-Secretary: Peggy Nicholls Director,

Alliance Mediation Management Limited,

Mercury House, Shipstone Business Centre,

North Gate, Nottingham,

 NG7 7FN.

Tel 01159718129.

email Peggy@alliancemediation.co.uk

Treasurer:

Owen McMillan

Mediator,

time2talk Mediation Service,

Dudley MBC, Directorate of Adult, Community and Housing,

5 St. James's Road,
Dudley, West Midlands,
DY1 1HP.
 

 

Tel: 01384 812245. 

email: OwenMcMillan@dudley.gov.uk

Planning Committee Member: 

Carol Dawson

Carol Dawson Training and Mediation Consultancy


258 Upper Eastern Green Lane


Coventry

CV5 7DP

 

Telephone 02476 465124


Mobile 07531681650

Email:
cdcaroldawson@yahoo.co.uk or carol@caroldawson.co.uk

Web:
www.caroldawson.co.uk

Planning Committee Member:

Beverley Lawson

HR Officer (Mediation),

The Mediation Service (Nottinghamshire County Council),

West Bridgford House, Loughborough Road,

West Bridgford,

Nottingham,

NG2 7UN.

Tel. 0115 8783538.

email: bev.lawson@nottscc.gov.uk

Planning Committee Member:

Sue Steel

Mediator,

time2talk Mediation Service,

Dudley MBC, Directorate of Adult, Community and Housing,

Area Housing Office,

5 St. James's Road,
Dudley, West Midlands,
DY1 1HP.
 
Tel: 01384 812422.

email: sue.steel@dudley.gov.uk


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