If you are thinking about mediation, you may already know that there are things you need to talk about and decisions that need to be made. But knowing that you need to have the conversation and actually feeling ready to have it are two very different things.
You may be wondering what you need to say, whether you will be heard, whether the other person will understand your point of view, or what happens if you simply cannot agree.
Standard mediation gives you a structured and neutral place to have those conversations but over the years, I have come to recognise that sometimes people need a little more space around the conversation itself.
Time to think.
Time to reflect.
Time to work out what really matters before you are sitting together again.
That is one of the reasons I developed Mindful Mediation. It is still mediation. I remain impartial. I do not tell either of you what to do and I do not take sides. But there is more opportunity to prepare, to reflect and, where appropriate, to have separate conversations alongside the joint mediation meetings.
The aim is to help you come into the conversation with greater clarity about what you want, what you need to understand and what might be possible. Because sometimes it is not the subject of the conversation that needs to change.
It is the way we approach it… and when that changes, the conversation can begin to feel very different.
