Moore Mediation and Divorce Coaching

We can talk all day about what services we offer and how they may suit your needs, but why don't you check it out for yourself ... checkout our website ...

www.mooremediationandcoaching.com

A team of professionals helping with relationship change cannot be complete without a lawyer!

We are so lucky to work with amazing family lawyers who provide legal advice, prepare legal documents and help our clients to finalize their separation and divorce.

As mediators, we do not provide legal advice - so we are very happy when we hear that our clients are working with counsel.

We also love working with family lawyers to facilitate mediations with their clients.

So if you are a lawyer looking for a mediator or a person looking for a referral to a lawyer - feel free to reach out to us!

Very often a relationship change results in the sale of the family home and the need to buy another one. However, most people do not plan for divorce, so their financial situation is often not ideal and many people have trouble finding properties and qualifying for mortgages.

We are so lucky to work with mortgage brokers and realtors who specialize in divorce!

Having professionals who know the process specific to divorce is hugely helpful to clients who are going through an enormous change in their lives.

You are not alone in this process - reach out and we will introduce you to come of the amazing people we work with.

Emotions get so confused and mixed up during relationship change, like a big ball of yarn that is knotted and messy.

We are not qualified counsellors. While we can empathize with our clients' experiences, we do not have the tools to help them work through the emotions that come up.

We always recommend that our clients have a counsellor that they can work with to deal with the emotions and feelings that come up during mediation or other relationship change.

It provides a safe place to work through big feelings and we are so in favor of that!!

We work with a wide range of counsellors, feel free to reach out for a recommendation.

This week we are talking about all of the other professions that play a part in a family mediation.

We pride ourselves on knowing enough to know when to call in the professionals and that is so very accurate with anything numerical.

Accountants help in family resolutions by filing tax returns, giving valuations on family businesses, determining how much capital gains is due on sold rental properties and generally giving us all those numbers that we use when dividing family assets or determining support.

Without them, we would be completely lost! We so appreciate accountants for their silent and important contribution to what we do.

If you have your own accountant, we would be happy to work with them. If you don't have an accountant, we will help you find one.

In case you were wondering ......

Happy Friday!!

As part of our wrap around services, we also offer divorce coaching to our clients to help them during the process of relationship change. Coaching is NOT legal advice, but more of guidance through the process and support with behaviors and emotions that come up.

Check out our blog about coaching shares some of my personal experience as well as details the types of coaching that people can benefit from during divorce - check it out ....

https://www.mooremediationandcoaching.com/post/coaching-101

We also facilitate mediations for succession planning and for actions that are started under the Wills and Estates Succession Act.

From helping family members decide how they are going to transfer responsibility from one generation to the next to helping beneficiaries who are fighting over how an estate should be distributed.

If there is a disagreement on how to move forward after a death or when a parent decides to step back from a business venture - we can help!

Why do we do what we do?

We think Paule's blog says it best ...

https://mooremediationandcoaching.com/welcome-to-moore-mediation-and-coaching/

Last week we spoke about our mediation process - this week, we want to chat about the types of mediations that we offer.

While the bulk of our experience is in the area of family mediation, we also have a wealth of experience in corporate mediations. Some examples include:

1. Partners who want to renegotiate their partnership agreement;
2. A shareholder in a company wants to be bought out and the shareholders are trying to agree on fair market value;
3. Multiple shareholders want to negotiate terms of a shareholder's agreement; or
4. Stakeholders in a small business are trying to come up with a succession plan.

Essentially in any instance where people are in business together and need some help resolving issues - we can help!

Throughout the mediation process, we refer people to professionals that can help them. These referrals are often to counsellors for therapeutic support, financial planners or accountants for financial advice or lawyers for legal advice on issues that come up in mediation.

Once the parties have reached resolution on the outstanding issues, we put those terms into a Memorandum of Understanding.

We then send that Memorandum of Understanding to one party's lawyer to be made into a separation agreement. If our clients don't have lawyers, we introduce them to one of the many amazing family lawyers in town.

We will usually schedule a follow-up call with our clients to check in and see how things are doing - because, well, we really enjoy what we do and who we get to do it with!

If you think that mediation may be an option for yourself or someone you know, please reach out! We look forward to connecting with you.

Now we mediate!!!

We like to do our mediations in two hour blocks. While we can do all day mediations if requested, we find that two hours is a long time to be working hard at resolution.

We also like to do multiple short mediations as opposed to one long mediation because there are many times that something comes up during mediation that requires further investigation. With multiple short sessions, we can table that topic until the next session and allow the parties to do some research or get further information. We would then circle back to that issue first thing in the next session.

We are virtual, so all of our sessions take place over zoom at this time. We recommend that parties call in separately and in different physical locations.

We recommend our monthly packages which include four 2 hour mediation sessions a month plus unlimited coaching throughout the month. This enables the parties to really get into the issues over a specific time period.

Now that both parties are on board with the mediation process, the next step is the intake process.

We have a detailed intake form that we ask both parties to complete which includes financial disclosure, details on the relationship and information about the children of the relationship. We use this information to guide how our mediation process moves forward. We also use this information to make sure that both parties are providing appropriate financial disclosure.

In addition to the intake form, we also have the parties sign an Agreement to Mediate. This is your agreement to move forward with mediation as well as a commitment to certain behaviors during the process.

Think mediation might be for you? This week we are going to break our process down into four easy steps ....

STEP ONE - give us a call!

Our first step in any mediated process is to speak with the person (or people) who are interested in mediation. In that first call we discuss your particular situation and determine if mediation is a good option for you.

We have done initial calls with one or both parties. If one party calls us and we determine that mediation would be a good solution, we work with that party to bring the second party into the conversation.

Remember, mediation is voluntary - so this step is essential in making sure that everyone is on board and willing to participate.

Happy Canada Day!

As we celebrate our nations birthday -- here are a few fun facts about our country ....

1. Churchill, Manitoba is the polar bear capital of the world!
2. Canada crosses SIX times zones.
3. Canada also has the longest coastline of any country.
4. Basketball was invented by a Canadian.
5. The telephone was invented by a Scottish born inventor living in Brantford, Ontario!!

Happy Birthday Canada.

To all of the "dad" members of a child's life that keep showing up ... Happy Father's Day.

We have had the privilege of working with all combinations of couples here at Moore Mediation and Coaching and, in our experience, each couple has loved deeply and meaningfully and every couple experiences the same pain and sadness around a relationship ending.

It does not matter who you love, but rather that you love.

Happy Pride Month!

How we aim to do business ....