Changing divorce through conversation over confrontation.
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Anchored in communication, compassion, and collaboration, we guide couples towards amicable separation agreements that honour both their shared history and future aspirations.
Separation and divorce is difficult - but it does not need to be adversarial or destructive. (Read more)
Reflective mediation is a modern, collaborative and constructive approach to dispute resolution in which each party agrees to a respectful approach and to construct a settlement that is fair to both parties. Unlike the traditional court-based approach, or out-of-court negotiation between two adversarial lawyers, Reflective Mediation is about choosing conversation over conflict. We are invested in a finding a shared resolution that enables the best path forward for the whole family. Lawyers may offer advice, but clients are the experts in their own lives. They are the decision-makers.
Often chosen by couples with children who plan to co-parent positively, we ease the journey of separation and divorce by focusing on mutual respect and constructive not confrontational dialogue. Our team of experienced professional mediators believes that - even in the most challenging situations - there's a path forward that repairs relationships, minimizes pain and maximizes understanding. While it’s never easy, separation and divorce does not have to be adversarial and that’s the promise of effective, ‘reflective’ mediation.
How can Reflective Mediation help you resolve conflict?
Facilitated conversations with Reflective Mediation guide family members and colleagues in the workplace to negotiate respectfully and reach balanced agreements that strengthen long term relationships. Depending on your situation, Mike MacConnell tailors his services to offer private communication coaching, two-party mediation or multi-party restorative justice circles, as well as workshops and training sessions.
Mediation
Mediation is a voluntary, confidential and non-adversarial approach to dispute resolution that succeeds by facilitating parties as they work together to generate their own solutions. Having an open conversation in a safe environment allows participants to better understand what really matters to one another.
Private Coaching
To enhance relationships, we offer private coaching in communication skills and emotional self-regulation. We provide our clients with practical skills that help to cope with stress and enrich connection with others.
Workshop Training
Workshop-style training sessions are customized to meet your needs. Our activity-based programs teach evidence-based communication skills that really work to de-escalate and prevent conflict, while strengthening relationships.
Restorative Justice Circles
When disputes arise within a group, in a family or at work, we host restorative justice circles to ensure all voices are heard. By enhancing mutual understanding, groups can reach a consensus that balances the needs of all parties.
What kind of dispute can Reflective Mediation help you resolve?
Every conflict situation is unique and requires a customized approach. Mike MacConnell’s expertise resides not only in separation and divorce, but also extends to facilitating intergenerational dispute resolution within the family nucleus, or at school and at work.
Youth
Children and teenagers experiencing lack of self-worth, rebelling or acting out recklessly during life transitions (sexual identity or orientation, geographical relocation, divorce, separation, adoption...).
Adults
Partners and spouses seeking a comprehensive separation/divorce agreement who wish to uncouple consciously. We help couples create a co-parenting partnership for their children.
Elderly
Adult children and aging parents who need help negotiating their new family dynamics when elderly parents need care, as well as conflict resolution between siblings who don’t agree on the best way to provide the care their parents need.
At School
Children being bullied or being bullies, children bringing their home issues to school, or experiencing conflict with educators and administrators. As well as educators and administrators who are feeling burn-out or powerlessness in the face of interpersonal conflicts with peers, parents and students.
At Work
Employees and managers/leadership seeking to boost morale, resolve employee conflicts and enhance the workplace environment through workshops, coaching and mediation.
Who is Mike MacConnell?
Mike MacConnell is a mediator and communication coach, a former Professor of Family Mediation at Humber College, and the author of The Yoga Of Divorce, A Mindful Route to Resolving Disputes. He is an innovator in the field of mediation and conflict resolution who transforms conflict into opportunity. His practical, solution-based guidance helps clients reach agreement with minimum emotional fallout and maximum personal growth.
Discover his book
The Yoga of Divorce: A Mindful Route to Resolving Disputes
This is the story of a man guided by his mindfulness practice through the difficult stages of divorce; a father looking for a way to get clear and to start fresh, without becoming alienated from his ex or poisoned by the process. This is Mike’s story, complemented by practical strategies you can implement whether your goal is to end or to heal your relationship.
