Every relationship has conflict! Yet most people have had little to no direct education about why conflict happens or how to manage it. Most of us have experienced great loss in the presence of conflict. We have witnessed our most ugly selves and watched helplessly as unresolved differences destroy a once valuable relationship.

Jetta Mediation Services is based on the philosophy that conflict can be a healthy component in a relationship or organization. JMS is committed to the idea that it is imperative for people to understand the disadvantages and the positive potential of their own conflicts so they can be empowered to influence their disputes and move them from a destructive outcome to a productive resolution.WIth the proper set of applied skills, disputes can actually strengthen relationships. JMS offers participants the tools they need to create the kind of relationship and life they want.

Our conflicts have the capacity to confuse us and hypnotize us, and we come to believe there is no way out other than battle. Conflict possesses a dark, hypnotic, destructive power: the power of attachment when it is time to leave, the power of demonization when it is time to forgive, the power of articulate speech when it is time to be still and listen.

—Ken Cloke