The Mediator’s Inner Work
Association of Northern Mediators
Zoom with Maria Arpa MBE, 6pm 10 November 2025
Title: The Mediator’s Inner Work
Join Maria for an interactive discussion about how we show up as Mediators. What is our responsibility to clean up our thinking? How does our lived experience inform our practice? Where does the wounded healer belong? When is it appropriate to hide behind professional distance?
Walk away with more questions than answers……and a set of tools support you in becoming more centred and grounded.
Biography
In 2006, Maria founded the Centre for Peaceful Solutions in response to an increase in drive by shootings on her road. The work has taken her into some of the most socially deprived areas of London and New York where she has facilitated peaceful solutions for everything from separated parents at loggerheads and angry teenagers in schools, to neighbours at war, street gang rivalries, threats to life, business deals gone wrong, boardroom disputes and workplace conflicts. These experiences led to the creation of the Dialogue Road MapTM (DRM)
The DRM has applications in families, schools, healthcare, prisons, workplaces, neighbourhoods and organisations. It is used for resolving conflict, repairing harm, decision making and healing at an individual and group level. It challenges people to live in harmony with their values. The Dialogue Road Map is also applied to leadership and governance. The DRM develops a power sharing model which reduces pressure on leaders, and increases responsibility taking across the community.
Maria has authored two books, The Heart of Mindful Relationships and Mindfulness at Work and, in 2020 she received an MBE for Services to Mediation.