Empower students. Reduce conflict.
Multiply your time.
Create a system that empowers your students to proactively manage their own conflicts, encourages a safer school environment, and multiplies your impact.
As A Counselor, You're Facing:
Burnout & Overwhelm
You're juggling everything - academic support, mental health, testing, scheduling, crisis response - and maybe doing it alone. The workload isn’t just heavy; it can feel unsustainable.
Lack of Understanding
You’re not “just another support role.” You’re trained in counseling, but sometimes treated like an extra pair of hands. Your impact is real and important, but you might feel overlooked.
Safety Concerns
You’re on the front lines when students are in crisis. You’re supporting others while carrying your own fear and emotional exhaustion. Some days, it can feel like too much.
We Believe That Students Are The Solution.
We'll help you turn student potential into real support - reducing conflict, easing your workload while extending your impact, and building a safer, more empowered school.
How we help:
1. The Peacebuilder Profile™
Our free, 5 minute quiz shows you which of the 4 Peacebuilder Profiles you are strongest. This is where you shine the brightest in managing school conflict.
Student Champion
You empower students by teaching and guiding them to effectively manage and resolve their own conflicts.
Trusted Collaborator
You collaborate proactively with other school staff to address conflicts comprehensively and efficiently.
Systems Specialist
You maintain organized, effective systems for documenting, tracking, and managing conflict situations.
Balance Master
You handle your conflict resolution duties without them interfering with your other responsibilities or disrupting your mental and emotional wellbeing.
2. The Peacemaker Pathway™
When your school is ready, we help you transform a group of students into peer mediators who can resolve up to 15 student conflicts a week, using our:
Curriculum
We go through the 9 Milestones of the Peacemaker Pathway, taking you from Reactive Crisis Management to Proactive School Impact
Coaching
Regular check-ins to support you and your school, driven by our years of experience creating systems that support counselors.
Custom Tools
To build a sustainable program that lasts, we provide the software systems and training tools that make it a breeze.
Community
Never feel like you're doing it alone - celebrate wins and grow together with a community of like-minded counselors.
Results
Our methodology has achieved:
91.3%
Overall Resolution Success Rate
(no repeat requests within one month)
15
Up to 15 mediations in one week, proactively led by students.
96.7%
Success rate with high-discipline students
90+ Hours
Average sum of mediation time led by students, per year
Frequently Asked Questions
Question 1: What if I don't have time to run a program like this?
The Peacemaker Pathway does take 9-10 weeks to lay the foundations and train students, and another 7-8 weeks until the students are settled and proactively running the program. But, once the program is up and running and the students are given the ownership, you can expect to find that you didn't have time to NOT run a program like this!
Question 2: Will my administration/teachers support this?
We give you built-in tools to present the program and show measurable outcomes. We'll walk through the program with your administration to make sure that there's buy-in from the start.
Question 3: What if I get stuck?
Our curriculum is designed to help you at each step along the way, but if you do get stuck we have regular coaching calls to help answer any questions and provide direction, as well as a community of other Peacebuilders who will jump at the chance to help out!
Question 4: I’m not sure my students are ready to take on something this serious.
That’s a valid concern, and exactly why our training is built with middle schoolers in mind. The Peacemaker Pathway doesn’t assume students are ready on day one. It scaffolds their growth along with your growth, and we've seen it work with middle schoolers and we are confident it will work with yours. We’ve seen incredible success with students who had prior behavior issues or struggled with self-regulation - because being trusted as a mediator becomes a turning point.
Who we are:
Samuel and Michael
We started MediatorSPARK to reduce conflict and restore relationships in schools. Given Samuel's 7.5 years spearheading Tier 1 and Tier 2 supports in a NYC public school, we knew we'd do this by equipping school counselors to empower the next generation of Peacemakers, through peer mediation.
We work exclusively with Middle Schools, so that our programs are pinpoint-targeted for success
We build a sustainable system that can work forever - not just a one-time workshop
No other Peer Mediation Program offers the same comprehensive combination of resources and tools
Are you ready to multiply your impact?
