Mindful Mediation

Mediation is a process used to work through conflicts and disputes in a respectful and cooperative way with the help of a neutral third party (the mediator) to facilitate the process.

As a mindful mediator my role is to hold space, create an environment of respect, and facilitate open communication grounded in curiosity instead of defensiveness. I bring my training in mediation along with my background in meditation, life coaching, and yoga to create presence, active listening, and effective communication in the midst of conflicts and disagreements. The mediation process is a dialogue that increases understanding with the goal of finding areas of agreement, common ground, and acceptable possibilities to create compromise. Conflict resolution is often agreeing not on a perfect solution, but on one that is reasonably satisfactory to all parties so that there can be closure and a moving on and forward. Even when a mediation does not result in an agreement it almost always results in an increased understanding between the parties. This creates the potential for a future resolution, or at least reduced hostility and negative feelings.

Conflict Coaching
Most if not all of our problems in our lives are rooted in conflict. We experience internal conflicts around our emotions, our goals, our values, decisions we need or want to make, our inner feelings about our relationships and many other possible sources. We also will certainly have external conflicts, difficulties in relationships, situations and circumstances in which we feel embattled or victimized, differences in ideas, strategies, vision with others and an endless variety of things we will confront. I bring my decades of experience as a yoga teacher, meditation teacher, life coach, and trained mediator to guide you toward empowered resolution of both inner and outer conflicts that you are struggling to work through.
As in all conflict resolution the goal is not a perfect solution, but the one that allows you to move on and forward, the one that returns you to your own peace, your own strength, that helps you grow, and frees you from the weight of the conflict.