| Mediation has been accepted as a useful out-of-court dispute
resolution process in Australia and other countries for at least fifteen years. The way
mediation has been taught, practiced and accepted has evolved over this period. As
convenor of a discussion group I intend to obtain views of prominent Australian, American,
Canadian New Zealand and English practitioners on the desirability or otherwise of current
trends, such as regularisation, institutionalisation, and specialisation according to
content, among others.
Common and diverging ideas and priorities will be listed and provided in advance for
participants. This will allow some prior development of themes so that a useful exchange
will be possible during the discussion.
The session will be of particular interest to those involved in policy and planning of
future mediation training and services.
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| Stephanie Charlesworth has professional qualifications in
social work and law, and was a full time member of staff at the Social Work Department at
the University of Melbourne for 25 years. She has done sessional teaching, at the
University of South Australia and at Latrobe University in post-graduate mediation
courses, and has qualified as an approved consultant with the Academy of Family Mediators
in the United States. Stephanie has also studied delivery of mediation services in
Canada, Belgium France and Ireland.
As a mediator she has worked in small claims disputes in Boston, and family law
disputes in Montreal, Toronto, and Melbourne where she now practices as an approved family
and child mediator and practice supervisor, at Carew Counsel Solicitors.
Stephanie has designed and presented courses for a number of government departments,
mediation organizations and universities, and has been a coach with CDR (Colorado), Bond
University Dispute Resolution Centre, LEADR, AIFLAM and Relationships Australia
An important interest for her is writing on the subject of mediation and she has
presented papers in Australia and at international conferences in Europe, New Zealand,
Canada and the US. Her publications include co- authorship with John Haynes of The
Fundamentals of Family Mediation The Federation Press 1996, and Disputed Families The
Federation Press 2000 as well as a number of chapters of books and journal articles on
various aspects of mediation policy and practice.
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