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Recommended books:

Mediator Communication Competencies: Problem Solving and Transformative Practices

This book fills the need for a book that examines the mediation process from beginning to end.  Discounted to $33.33 new, with shipping included.
 
Available at Amazon.com.

The Mediator's Handbook Tools and guidance for any mediator.
By Jennifer E. Beer, Eileen Stief, Friends Conflict Resolution Programs.

The complete handbook for any mediator. Under twenty dollars new, under ten dollars used.

Available at Amazon.com.

Marketing Without Advertising: Inspire Customers To Rave About Your Business & Create Lasting Success by Michael Phillips, Salli Rasberry, Diana Fitzpatrick and Mediation Career Guide by Forest Monsten.

If you want to succeed as a mediator and get paid, you need either Marketing Without Advertising or Forest Mosten's Mediation Career Guide.

As to Mosten's book:  "A complete (how is it that he misses nothing?) and practical guide filled with brilliant ideas, useful tools, 'just go do it' insights, and invaluable advice for all." (Daniel Bowling, executive director, Association for Conflict Resolution).

I have never had anyone who was not very happy with either book.  Much to my surprise, in a class I assigned Marketing Without Advertising to, all post-graduate students, MWA was the one book they found more important than any other they had read in their post graduate program.  Importantly, Mediation Career Guide applies everything with specific details for a mediation career, missing nothing, warning you of everything you need to be aware of.

For anyone who wants to make mediation a career, I can recommend both books very strongly.