A Divorce Mediator’s Two Words

Abstract

Divorce mediators live in two very diferent worlds (of divorce). For heuristic purposes, I will contrast them as the world of their conferences and quarterlies, on the one hand, and the world of their private practices, on the other. Each of these is grounded in very different pictures (wiews) of the world itself. Divorce mediators erroneously privilege one of those worlds over the other, as a result of which they improperly make judgements about one that are derived from the other. Moreover, they do this despite the fact that these two worlds are incommesurate and have nothing to do with one another.