The Handover Book Video’s

The Handover Book Video's 2023

In this video Ashley Palmer, co-creator of The Handover Book, explains how this resource can help parents who are struggling with communication in relation to their children.  The book serves the additional purpose of demonstrating to the children that the parents are working together, for them: The Handover Book 40 second description – YouTube

Family Mediation Week 2019 – Day 4

Family Mediation Week 2019 - Day 4 2023

The clouds are parting Today’s theme brings us further into the journey of divorce / separation, where clients feel themselves held safely in a structured process and can start to see a clear pathway. When people separate there are often issues to resolve in relation to both finances and children.  Today’s articles reflect both areas. […]

Family Mediation Week 2019 – Day 3

Family Mediation Week 2019 - Day 3 2023

The storm will end when the pressure lifts Bill Hewlett’s video today speaks directly to children who may be considering seeing a mediator.  It provides a helpful, brief but clear information for any child in this position to understand what to expect, and hopefully be reassured Also, lots of helpful articles on the Family Mediation […]

Family Mediation Week 2019 – Day 2

Family Mediation Week 2019 - Day 2 2023

“Shelter from the Storm” Tuesday saw another informative article from Philippa Johnston, this time about mediation and how it works: Day 2 Shelter from the storm which talks about mediation and makes the point that anyone can call themselves a family mediator but… “…you need someone who has been properly trained, with recognised qualifications, with proper supervision. […]

Family Mediation Week 2019 – The storm before the calm

Family Mediation Week 2019 - The storm before the calm 2023

Well, it’s a case of “better late than never!” this year.  So, on day 3 of #familymediationweek, here is a summary of (my view of) the high lights so far…. Day 1 explored being “caught up in the storm,”  giving ideas about what to do and where to go.  This helpful article by Philippa Johnston, […]

Mediation Works

Mediation Works 2023

Day 5 of Family Mediation Week features blog posts and a video on the theme “Mediation Works.” The Family Mediator’s Association offers a whiteboard video called “Mediation Works.” It’s a short film explaining the process of family mediation and how it can help couples and families separate more smoothly. In addition, there are two more […]

Parenting Together

Parenting Together 2023

Day 4 of Family Mediation Week brings us blog posts and a video on the theme of “Parenting Together.” Bill Hewlett, an inspirational mediator and all round good-egg from Australia, writes a piece about how the great-ness of family mediation in terms of the long-term benefits for children and parents. It is well worth a […]

Rachel’s Poem Video: Divorce from the perspective of an 11-year old girl

Rachel's Poem Video: Divorce from the perspective of an 11-year old girl 2023

Day 3 of Family Mediation Week focuses on “Childrens Voices.” Today this wonderful video clip has been released. It shows child actors reading the words of “Rachel’s Poem.” The poem was written by an 11-year old girl about her parents divorce and powerfully demonstrates the needs of children to be allowed to love and spend […]

Family mediation client talks about her experiences of mediation

phone mediation

Continuing on the theme of Financial Sense, the Family Mediators Association have today published a short video and blog post of a client talking about her experience of going through mediation on financial and children matters. The video is short but effective at one minute and twenty seconds. Suzy’s talks a little about the mediation […]

Support for making full financial disclosure

financial disclosure

Most clients find the process of making full financial disclosure time consuming. Many also find it difficult as they may not have access to documents or they may not be used to dealing with finances. However, it is a pre-requisite to being able to enter into meaningful discussion about a settlement and being able to […]