The Sacro Podcast
Sacro is a Scottish community justice organisation which works to deliver life-changing services that empower people, give hope and protection, and help to build safe communities by reducing conflict and offending. In this podcast, we explore some of the ways we use our 50+ years of experience, best practice and evidence-based services to achieve our goals.
The Sacro Podcast
The Origins of Sacro's Mediation Services
For the next few episodes, we are looking at the work of The Scottish Community Mediation Centre.
Managed by Sacro, the Centre works to support the development of mediation services across Scotland by providing training and consultancy services in community mediation, restorative skills, and conflict resolution.
The Centre has been helping others to resolve conflict for over 25 years now and we felt now would be a good time to reflect on the development of mediation over that period.
For this series, we are joined by Ian McDonough, a recognised authority on conflict resolution, and the man tasked with setting up the centre and managing it through its early development. Ian continues to deliver training through the centre and for this episode, looks at the origins of mediation in Scotland and reflects on the establishment of the Scottish Community Mediation Centre.
For more information on mediation, visit the Centre's website. scmc.sacro.org.uk
Find out more about Sacro at sacro.org.uk.