Services

Mediation Formats for Everyone

  • Conflict is normal! However, few people have the skills to face the inevitable conflicts. We are non-partial professionals who offer a confidential process to guide communication and decision making. 

    All parties must consent to the mediation process. Each session is typically two hours, and the number of sessions depends on the parties and the complexity of the conflict. Our facilitated process moves through conflict in ways that are supportive and generative. Should your situation require a written agreement between the parties, we can co-create one at the conclusion of the process. 

    Our methodology does not guarantee a resolution. Instead we meet clients where they’re at to get unstuck, and move into the future. Mediation is both more affordable than hiring lawyers. It also offers you the ability and power to make your own choices compared to going to court and letting a judge decide. 

  • The process of consciously uncoupling involves challenging decisions during a chaotic and emotional time. We use a co-facillator process (two mediators) to guide the divorce process so that you can make the most specific and creative solutions for newly separate lives, instead of turning your decision-making over to a judge in the courts. The topics in a divorce mediation might include: 

    1. Division of assets and liabilities

    2. Formalizing the status of the divorce

    3. Tax preparedness

    4. Decision-making processes

    5. Spousal support

    6. Parenting schedules

    7. Child support 

    8. Moving logistics

  • We offer a process for learning the legal and financial meaning of a marriage contract in the eyes of the state. A prenuptial agreement allows for more agency and candid conversations about finances. This process can strengthen your relationship, by building a durable structure for the future, and reduce potential future conflicts.

  • We have an expansive idea of family! This form of mediation might include intergenerational living, co-parenting schedules, inheritance, end-of-life care planning, big decisions that impact your future, we offer mediation for your unique circumstances.

  • Is there a dispute you need some support with? Whether you’re friends, neighbors, mutual aid groups, or creative collaborators, mediation can support you to move through the challenges of being in community.

  • Is your organization struggling to move forward after tension? Does it feel like some things are unspoken, and yet nobody will name it? Organizational conflicts can get in the way of your group’s ability to get stuff done and effectively collaborate. Organizational Mediation might include multiple modalities from our menu of services to address conflicts so that you can return to the mission and values of your organization.

Coaching, Training, and Facilitation

  • Conflict Coaching is a process where one party in the conflict is guided through skills and strategies to be more prepared to approach conflict. This process is appropriate if the conflict cannot be mediated, or if you are trying to skill-up your leadership and ability to both raise tensions and hold tensions raised by others.

  • For groups of all kinds, whether workplaces, clubs, neighborhoods, volunteer-run organizations, we offer training that supports skilling-up your members' ability for grounding, direct communication, and generative conflict. Our trainings are highly experiential and practice-based, and we enjoy curating them to the learning goals of your group.

  • Do you have big changes to put in motion in your organization and need support? We support you in figuring out what decision making process best serves your organization’s needs. We create and guide a structure for moving through transitions of all kinds with leadership coaching and meeting facilitation.

  • Does your organization suffer from “This meeting could have been an email”-syndrome? A badly run meeting can be a total drag. No one wants their time wasted. Challenging decisions, moments of transitions in workplaces, and interpersonal conflicts can make meetings go off the rails. We can help you “land the plane” by co-creating agendas, designing activities, and leading meetings so that your group or workplace can meet your goals and stay on schedule with challenging decisions.

  •  We design retreats to meet the goals of groups embarking on big transitions and projects together. A choreographed set of activities might include long-term strategic planning, building trust, restructuring, future planning, somatic practice, and conflict transformation.