Monthly Archives: March 2012

Eldercare Facilitated Dialogue and Shared Decision Making

FACILITATION WORKS FOR FAMILIES FACING CHANGED LIFE CIRCUMSTANCES WITH ELDERLY PARENTS Families today are assuming responsibility for the informal care of over 75% of elderly family members, and are often faced with difficult decisions from a bewildering array of choices including alternative living arrangements, financial issues, and multidisciplinary care. In the best of circumstances, this can be a stressful process, and sometimes leads to disagreements, confusion, and conflict at a time when the best intentions of the family are to work

Family Meetings

Family Disputes - Facilitation

FACILITATON WORKS FOR FAMILIES FACING SERIOUS DECISION-MAKING AFFECTING FINANCES, LIVING, QUALITY OF LIFE Most families with children face numerous conflicts, whether during the teen years, relating to role changes in the family, because of job changes, because of school changes, because of serious illness and the attendant financial and role changes related to that, or because of any of a number of life’s stresses. Many families are able to work through the daily or routine conflicts on their own. However, when

Baltimore Family Mediation

Family Disputes - Facilitation

FAMILY CONFERENCING WORKS FOR FAMILIES FACING SERIOUS OR STRESSFUL SITUATIONS WHERE THEY NEED TO WORK TOGETHER Baltimore family mediation, facilitated family meetings, and family property mediation are often referred to as Family Conferencing, which can be extremely beneficial when multiple people in a family are involved in a serious situation where a decision must be made. Family Conferencing offers a process that can reduce stress for a family, including those most closely affected by the conflict or by the decisions. Family

Family Business Meetings

Family Disputes - Facilitation

FACILITATED FAMILY BUSINESS MEETINGS WORK FOR FAMILIES WHO WANT TO PRESERVE IMPORTANT FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS AND MAKE SMART BUSINESS DECISIONS AS WELL Families who own substantial assets or who own a family business often have the need to collaborate and plan together to preserve and grow their assets and/or their business for the next generation. They do not necessarily have conflicts with each other, but rather they simply recognize that with more than two family members, the likelihood of having a more

Family Business Succession Planning

Family Disputes - Mediation

FACILITATED FAMILY BUSINESS SUCCESSION PLANNING MEETINGS WORK FOR FAMILIES WHO WANT TO PRESERVE IMPORTANT FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS AND MAKE SMART BUSINESS DECISIONS AS WELL Most families who own a their own business face numerous conflicts, whether relating to employees, finances, financial reverses, strategic planning, resource use, leveraging, product changes, market changes, serious illness, divorce, remarriage, and death. One of the most under-addressed yet serious needs for family owned businesses is the discussion of a succession plan.

Pre-Marriage Dialogue and Decision Making

Family Disputes - Mediation

MEDIATION WORKS FOR PRE-MARRIAGE DIALOGUE, DISCERNMENT AND DECISION-MAKING Mediation promotes an atmosphere of mutual trust that fosters the ability to communicate concerns about the future, and to have a meaningful dialogue about such concerns. With the help of a third party neutral mediator, couples already engaged or considering a life time commitment to each other are able to discuss and consider the other’s perspectives on various topics including to marry or not marry, in-law relationships, sibling relationships, finances, lifestyle choices, previous