Getting Started as a Mediator: The Seven Steps for Starting and Building a Successful Mediation Practice (Mediator's Guidebook)

Mediation has been in the top 50 new and emerging careers in the US since 2012. More judges across the country recognize the benefits of mediation to their dockets and the litigants by drastically reducing the time, stress and money involved in a traditional lawsuit. This alone has spiked the need for mediators, and there just aren't enough attorneys in the legal field to accommodate. Now non-attorney mediators are more popular than ever but there's just one problem... no one is teaching new mediators how to enter the profession with any margin of success. That is, until now... until I wrote this book.

Clay Phillips is a mediator, mediator trainer, consultant, and professor of conflict resolution at two universities in his home city of Nashville, Tennessee. During his career, he has mediated more than 400 cases spanning a broad array of civil and domestic actions, he has trained more than 1,200 mediators, and is the author of a series of books on mediator and conflict resolution practitioner development. He also created the curriculum for a Master of Arts Degree in Conflict Resolution which, to-date, has more than 300 graduates. He holds a PhD in Organizational Leadership, a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science in Business Management.