Meditation
In my early days as a mediator, my mother kept wondering why I was pursuing a career in Medi-T-ation. I tried to explain that I was doing Medi-A-tion and what that meant, but she never did get the two terms straight. Some years later, we started seeing meditation being incorporated into people’s lives, including daycare…
Read More
{2:36 minutes to read} When I became a mediator, my mother did not understand why her supposedly down-to-earth daughter was now doing meditation, that is Medi-T-ation! She would keep asking me regularly with a semi-amused/semi-critical tone: “So did you meditate today?” When I explained that I did not do meditation but mediation, that is Medi-A-tion,…
Read More
More and more people are opting for the mediation process to resolve their disputes rather than taking the adversarial, painfully-long and costly legal route. Unfortunately, there is also still much misunderstanding about the field of mediation. Even spell check will often try to substitute the word “mediTation” for the word “mediAtion!” When I first started…
Read More