Share Mediation Week runs October 18-24, 2026, anchored on Conflict Resolution Day — observed the third Thursday of every October since 2005. It’s a week when dispute resolution practitioners across the country do one simple thing at the same time: tell people mediation exists.

This October, help us spread the word about what mediation can do.

We’re asking you to make a personal commitment to reach out and tell people about mediation.

We’re going to reach out to hundreds if not thousands of your colleagues in this effort, but it starts with you.

Communities are splitting along political, ideological, and cultural lines. Conversations that used to happen aren’t happening, and disputes that used to get settled at the kitchen table now end up in court — or nowhere at all.

Mediation is built for exactly this. It gives people a structured way to be heard, to hear each other, and to reach an agreement they both had a hand in writing. Most people have never been told it’s an option.

Visit the Resources page for ready-to-use articles, slides, and social posts — and if you’ve made your own materials, send them to us so other practitioners can use them too.

Share during the week of [CONFIRM DATES]. Post it, present it, send it, say it out loud. Then tell us how it went.

One public presentation on mediation, sometime during October 18-24, 2026. You choose the audience, the topic, and the format. Speak alone or join with colleagues — a panel counts, and so does a fifteen-minute slot at a meeting that was already happening.