Negotiation Coach: mediate and teach others

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I'm learning "Negotiation Coach: mediate and teach others" on The Future Market. Lesson 1: "What a mediator is, and is not".

What the lesson teaches:
- Before this course: Complex Negotiation (course 2.14.3), which came after Negotiation Skills (2.14.2) and Negotiation Basics (2.14). You already know party maps, interests, BATNAs, ground rules, contingent clauses, hardball responses, cultural hypotheses and written summaries. This course is about helping other people negotiate.
- Harvard's Program on Negotiation (PON) describes mediation as third-party involvement in a dispute. The mediator helps the parties reach their own agreement.
- PON says a mediator "cannot impose an outcome." That is the key difference from a judge or an arbitrator, who decide.
- A mediator builds rapport and trust so each party feels its interests are understood. Then the mediator can reframe problems and suggest creative solutions.
- PON says mediation is used in many kinds of disputes, such as labour, family, community, public policy and international ones.
- Mediator versus coach: a mediator helps both sides and stays neutral. A coach helps one person prepare and learn. Do not do both for the same deal.
- Education only: formal mediation can have its own rules, training and, in some places, licensing. This course teaches skills and practice, not legal advice.

The exercise I'm working on:
Pick a real or practice dispute. Write each side's interests and say whether you would be mediator or coach.

I'm stuck. Please:
1. Explain the main idea in plain, simple words with one everyday example.
2. Walk me through the exercise one small step at a time. Ask me what I've done so far before giving the next step.
3. Don't just give me the final answer. Help me do it myself, and check my work when I share it.

I'm a parent helping my child (about 8 years old) with a lesson called "What a mediator is, and is not" from the course "Negotiation Coach: mediate and teach others".

Here's what the lesson says:
Two kids argue over one swing. A grown-up who is not on anyone's team asks each kid what they need, then helps them find a plan. The grown-up does not pick the winner. The kids make the plan themselves.

The activity:
Pick a real or practice dispute. Write each side's interests and say whether you would be mediator or coach.

Please explain this so an 8-year-old understands: short sentences, a fun everyday example, and no hard words.
Then give me 3 simple questions I can ask my child to check they understood, and a way to do the activity together, one tiny step at a time.