Strategic Conflict Intervention
Mediated Resolutions
Put your conflict behind you.
Our approach.
With a unique combination of traditional mediation concepts, modern perspective, and creativity, conventional thought processes are expanded to apply conflict intervention in new and strategic ways. Limitless creativity for individualized resolutions all on your terms, and all with the express purpose of helping you put your conflict behind you.
Who is Mediation for?
Spouses, Romantic Partners, Professional Partners, Colleagues, Families, Neighbors, and Friends
What does Mediation provide?
Resolution for repetitive conflicts
Clarity for misunderstandings, misinterpretations, and misconceptions
Designed action plan for potential future conflict
Respectful interaction and swift resolution
Mediation is the future of dispute resolution.
What is Mediation?
Mediation is a guided negotiation process during which a mediator, who is an impartial neutral party, provides conflict intervention support to parties who are involved in a dispute and have been unable to find a mutually agreeable resolution on their own. Unlike in other forms of conflict intervention, parties in mediation remain active decision-makers during the entirety of the mediator-guided negotiation process, including the eventual outcome.
What does a Mediator do?
A mediator uses guided conflict intervention strategies and techniques to facilitate productive and resolution-oriented conversation between parties who are in conflict. As a neutral party, a mediator steps in to assist parties who have tried unsuccessfully to resolve their conflict independently.
Why Mediation?
Mediation empowers parties to retain control of their dispute, to be active participants in the intervention and resolution process, and to reach settlement without court intervention. Choosing mediation avoids pursuing or continuing with courtroom proceedings. Whether the mediation is court mandated or not, with the benefit of a trained and skilled conflict interventionist, mediation has the capacity to reach resolution for all parties.
Is Mediation only for legal issues?
No! The Mediation process is designed to help anyone in any form of conflict. That includes cases that are headed for or already moving through legal proceedings, as well as disputes in other areas that could benefit from trained, neutral intervention.
A neutral third-party Mediator can be key to saving a relationship in conflict.
Personal disclosures are confidential and protected.
Regardless of whether the mediation is taking place with parties together in joint session or separately in caucus, personal disclosures are confidential with the mediator and within the mediation.
Mediations are available in-person and live online.
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Mediation FAQ:
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The mediator, conflicted parties, and to those who are not directly involved in the dispute but are privy to mediation proceedings.
All conversations that transpire during mediation, including new information and potential settlement offers, are considered to be for the purposes of reaching resolution and are protected by confidentiality. That means that if, for example, the case does not settle in mediation, nothing that was discussed during that mediation can be used anywhere else, including in court. This confidentiality shield allows parties to participate fully and freely in their attempts to vigorously pursue a resolution by providing disclosures, creative settlement suggestions, and monetary offers, without concern that should the mediation end without resolution, they will be forced to adhere in court to those very same disclosures, creative settlement suggestions, and monetary offers. What happens in mediation stays in mediation regardless of whether or not a settlement is reached.
Throughout the mediation, beginning when parties arrive, the mediator will privately ask each participant if they are comfortable in joint session (parties remaining together in the same room), or if they would prefer to move into caucus (when parties are moved into separate rooms). In caucus, parties will interact with the mediator privately, and the mediator goes from room to room, with each disputant’s room being equally private and confidential. The mediator will not disclose any information from one room to the next without the explicit permission of the party to whom the information belongs.
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It is the confidentially protected choice.
It is the choice that leaves control in the hands of the participants.
It is the choice that focuses on and requires resolutions that are mutually-agreed upon – settlements that are accepted by all parties.
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If you are in any form of conflict.
If you are stuck in a battle with unreasonable and uncooperative parties, resulting in feelings of frustration and concern that there will be no possibility of resolution.
Before litigation.
If you are involved in an accident or altercation that could result in court proceedings.
When there is a breakdown of the communication process, and no one is listening.
When emotions are too intense for logic to prevail.
When resolution to your conflict requires a creative and out-of-the-box approach.
We are a diverse team of trained Conflict Intervention and Communication Specialists, Mediators, and Consultants. Our varying cultural and professional backgrounds contribute to the specialized skillset we have, and to the attention we provide for each and every client we work with.
Our services
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Personal Conflict Intervention
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Mediation
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Strategy Development
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Instruction
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ADR Advocates
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Negotiation Coaching
Mediation minimizes the costs of conflict.
“SCI saved my family time and money by helping us resolve our conflict out of court, and even found a way for us to improve our relationship.”
— JUDITH Z., SCI MEDIATION CLIENT