Only 34% of mediators take their own conflicts to mediation! If the best informed and staunchest advocates for mediation find the process unrelatable or unnecessary, can we realistically hope to sway ever-larger swaths of the general public toward our valuable service? Further, does the lack of participant experience limit our professional capacity to empathize or effectively engage party or process?

While you give this some thought, check out Advancing Dispute Resolution's latest infographic comparing various professions' use of intra-professional services.