Mediation

It is voluntary, it is confidential, and it is a no-fault process. Nobody is put on trial. The mediator does not decide anything or impose a solution — their job is to keep the conversation productive and help you reach an agreement you can both live with.

—  Rule 114 Court Qualified Neutrals. Our mediators are certified and listed on the Minnesota Supreme Court Roster of Neutrals across all areas of Alternative Dispute Resolution.

—  Individual mediators or co-mediation teams. You can request a male/female team, or a team pairing a mental health background with a legal background — useful where the dispute is technically complicated and emotionally loaded at once.

—  Clinical training in the room. Our mediators are also therapists. In a family dispute that is a real advantage: they can tell the difference between a position and the fear underneath it, and they are not thrown by strong emotion.

—  Therapy and mediation under one roof. If a couple in mediation needs support, or a family in therapy needs a decision made, we can move between the two without you starting over with strangers.

—   Divorce mediation — custody, parenting time, child support, property, debt and spousal maintenance.

—   Family & community mediation— disputes between relatives, neighbours, landlords and tenants, or community members.

—   Workplace & business mediation — teams, partners, co-owners and organisations.

—   Conflict coaching — one-to-one preparation and skills, including for situations where the other party will not come to the table.

Formal mediation is the structured version: a neutral third party meets with everyone involved and works toward a mutual agreement, without prescribing what that agreement should be. Facilitated conversation is less formal — a supported discussion between two or more people who need to talk something through in a safe, respectful setting, without necessarily producing a written agreement. Which one you need is something we can work out on the phone.

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