"I’m sure we all have a view on the notion of neutrality and impartiality and whether this is an attainable ideal or not. One of the assumptions that underpin is that we all bring stories into a mediation, parties and mediator alike. These stories, regardless of what we think, do have an influence on how we engage, interact and intervene during the course of the mediation – if we accept this assumption then we have to accept that neutrality is merely an aspiration or intention and nothing more. Or is that just my story? Find out what Dr Sara Cobb thinks about the implications of Narrative mediation theory on the notion of neutrality.
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- Aled Davies
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