Grillo’s rigorous path to intentional, mindful mediation

Trina Grillo’s critique of the “promises of mediation” in her article, The Mediation Alternative: Process Dangers for Women, was influential during the formative years of mediation practice in this country-when state and federal courts across the country were exploring and expanding mediation’s use. Mediation was heralded as an informal, contextual, noncoercive forum where parties could have their voices heard and keep decisions in their own hands, and as a viable alternative to the adversarial, patriarchal, objectivist trial system….