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No Fault Mediation is a default setting!
No fault divorce came into law on 6 April 2022 by The Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020. Petitions used to have allege fault as part of the application, using the headings of adultery or unreasonable behaviour, (separation periods were often too long to...
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Is someone difficult to talk with over a dispute about something? A third party neutral (a mediator) maybe exactly what you need to have the conversation you want (conflict coaching) or to meet that person on line or by telephone with the mediator making it a safe...
In the end people have to talk to solve matters well so why not mediate immediately?
Of course we are hard wired for battle or avoidance, fight or flight, which do you do most in a dispute? Mediation is the best way of us learning to be hard wired to dialogue it out, to have self-determination and choice and to make sensible and realistic...
The Four Tensions in Mediation
Mediation is the facilitation of negotiation and in order to do it well you need a conceptual understanding of negotiation and the four tensions that need managing: 1. Its only about the Money and Alternative Solution Creation. Creating value by expanding the pie,...
Dispute resolutions skills are far more important than having the knowledge to judge the matter
There seems to be a huge misunderstanding about the importance of a mediator in not judging the matter and instead relying on what the parties and their lawyers bring to mediation. The lawyers who come with the parties often have a wealth of knowledge which is...
Instead of resentment, anger, worry, sleepless nights, annoyance and unresolved thought patterns…
Mediate it which means that you clarify the issues, expand, explore and discover what they mean really to you and to the other side and from those discoveries, find out how to get an end to all those problems the dispute or lack of communication is causing. If parties...
Recently we resolved a 30 year old dispute relating to property that no one thought would ever settle but us
Gambling businesses like any other business are required to offer alternative forms of dispute resolution like mediation
Businesses need to make ADR available for quick, cheap and effective dispute resolution. It is to the advantage of all involved to ensure a dispute is dealt with well in a timely fashion so it does not fester and interfere with progress and production. See this...
What is so good about mediation?
It is a little like what Benjamin Franklin said: “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn”. If you tell parties what to do or what you think they should do they will probably forget any benefit and remain annoyed about the dispute,...
The difference between compassion and empathy and the importance of boundaries
Have a watch of this: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10153967066765682