How Can We Help?
Our expert family mediators use a range of skills to help you plan for the future:
- Helping you identify the things you need to discuss
- Managing the agenda in a timely way
- Using questions to help people identify priorities and needs
- Listening to ensure your points are really heard and understood
- Summarising understanding
- Not taking sides, and encouraging self-determination
- Ensuring access to necessary information
- Helping people spell out arrangements to check they will work
- Ensuring neither person dominates discussions, or makes insulting or demeaning comments
- These skills are designed to help you decide for yourself what is best in all the circumstances.