How We work
Relationship and family mediation with Transforming Conflict is client-centered: We guide the process. You determine the content and outcome.
We understand that no two situations and no two families are alike. Therefore, we offer several mediation models as well as facilitated family meetings to ensure that we are able to meet your specific needs. Our services can help you head off conflict, manage it, or even end it, saving you the time, expense and heartache of avoidance or litigation.
Understanding that your family situation is unique, we offer several flexible mediation models to work with your particular situation:
Basic Mediation
The structure of Basic Mediation is flexibly applied. It also provides the underlying structure for Collaborative Mediation and High Conflict Co-Mediation.
Collaborative Mediation
Clients who use Collaborative Mediation retain the services of attorneys who are trained in Collaborative Law. These attorneys understand, perhaps better than most other attorneys, the value of interest-based negotiation and possess skills that enable them to advocate for their client’s interests while seeking solutions that are mutually beneficial.
High Conflict Co-Mediation
When the couple’s relationship has been characterized by strong, negative emotions or when these emotions are driven by anxiety over high-stakes issues—such as a large or complex marital estate—early intervention with a structured process can help prevent the conflict from spiraling out of control.
Facilitated Family Meetings
Facilitated family meetings are process-oriented and designed to help people share their concerns, opinions, information and ideas so that they can work together on creating solutions and planning for the future. In pre-conflict situations, facilitated family meetings can motivate participants to develop effective decisions that are group—rather than self—oriented, and encourage greater productivity and innovation. Used after a conflict has surfaced, facilitated family meetings help family members collaborate on problem solving and reaching consensus while preserving and strengthening family ties.