40 hrs, 5 days - Mediation Training Program – 05-09.03.2022

 The journey of  forty hours of mediation training through interactive sessions, spanning over five days have been one of the most absorbing, reflective and fascinating period for me. The journey with 26 most colourful, joyful, vibrant and creative colleagues and two trainers will be the most memorable moments for times to come.

Choicelessly I have a spiritual – philosophical approach and I continue to see every activity, event and institution with that glasses on. The fine distinction between Meditation and Mediation is the presence and absence of the letter 'T'. In meditation, the Self or the Aatma itself acts as the Third Party or the Teacher and guides Self to realize the true nature of Self or the Truth. Independent third party in mediation is an outsider, the mediator. Mediator is a person who acts as an intellectual obstetrician, helping people to give birth to the key that resolves the dispute between themselves. The correct answer already exists within the problem itself. At the base of every problem there is someone who is unreasonable, unjust and improper with the attitude and potentiality to exploit the other, without giving the due, be it money, time, emotional support or respect. Aid, help and assistance of the mediator is essential and imperative to enable surfacing of the toxin. The whole process is like Samudra Manthan.

It is not suddenly, that meditation is taking its roots deeper into the social psyche and is being promoted from the top.  All this is a wave motion and we all have to move with it, choicelessly. As human being civilized they shifted from violent ways of dispute resolution by dual, ring fights, battles and wars to civil way of using the office of family head, tribe head, panchaayat or king, a neutral third party that was the advent of Legal Revolution 1.0.

In 1273, with the proclamation of Magna Carta the power to resolve disputes and pass decrees moved to Parliament constituted of the people, by the people and by the people. That marked Legal Revolution 2.0. Independent Judiciary became the repository of dispute resolution from Trial Court to Supreme Court to ICJ and that manifested Legal Revolution 3.0.

As several issues arose in court litigation, people moved to arbitration, conciliation and mediation which was Legal Revolution 4.0. This is where most of us are existing. Riding on the fourth wave, the human beings have moved to Fourth Dimension and Globalization 4.0, Fourth Industrial Revolution and Fourth Education Revolution, the new breaking ground is peace mediation marking the Legal Revolution 5.0.

Peace mediation as contradistinguished from mediation simpliciter, is not a process of merely deciding a dispute or disposing of a litigation by bringing about a settlement between the parties for the present. Peace mediation is a process of eliminating and eradicating the conflict itself, forever. The process entails exploring and exposing the error in understanding and perception, which formed the very basis of the disagreement that brought about the clash of interests. Quality Peace Agreement must result in combusting and resolving the base or substratum of the conflict forever. 

The purpose of peace mediation is to make every person become conflict free by understanding the basis and true nature of the issues agitating deep in them. Our Constitutional goal is not a casteless society, it is not a classless society the real Constitutional goal is development of conflict free society. Lawmen have a pivot role in this paradigm as lawmen, not as politicians or social reformists. Let’s all work together to create a conflict free society, the ultimate goal of mankind.