Welcome!

Mediation Services of Eastern Iowa's vision is to be a leader in promoting public awareness and use of mediation for cooperative conflict resolution.

You are in the right place if you want to:

• Find out about mediation
• Decide whether it's for you
• Learn how to prepare for mediation
• Find a mediator
• Be trained as a mediator
• Find out about continuing education opportunitities for mediators and other professionals.

Have you ever known…

• A married couple in the middle of a divorce that needed to sit down at the kitchen table and talk and listen to each other?

Have you ever known...

• A brother and sister who were so angry with each other over their parents’ estate that they could not even sit down together for a Thanksgiving dinner?

Have you ever known…

• A child who wanted to spend more time with each parent and less time having her parents fight about it?

Have you ever known…

• A friend who did not want to go to work because of a conflict with a co-worker or supervisor?

Have you ever known…

• A young person who wanted to go to college but could not get her separated parents to sit down and talk about how to pay for it?

Have you ever known…

• A farmer or small business owner so far in debt they felt like they could not even talk with their banker?

Have you ever known…

• A friend who built a home and had a problem with a contractor but could not even talk about it?

Have you ever known…

• Former college roommates who used to be great friends but had a falling out when one moved out of their apartment early to take a job and left the other to pay the entire rent?

All of us have known someone in a predicament very similar to these. In fact, you have probably been in a situation that is similar. You may be in one right now.

Mediation! Mediation! Mediation!

Mediation is a safe way for people in conflicts or difficult situations to have the opportunity to solve their own problems.

We know that 90-95% of people in these situations don’t think that talking together in mediation will help at all. Yet, statistically, people reach some or complete agreement in 50-70% of all mediations.

Mediation works. Give it a try.