What are the benefits of mediation?

• More open communication: share what is truly in your heart and better understand others

• Move forward: find solutions that suit your particular situation

• Improve your mental health by lifting a heavy burden

• Increased self-awareness: better manage your triggers and emotions to avoid escalation of arguments

• Better understanding of common interests: feel more like a family unit

• Clear rules and routines in the house give more space for fun family time 

• Having fewer draining discussions leaves you with more energy in your job and hobbies etc.

• Home as a place of safety and support

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Applications

Issues around family

These sessions are directed at individuals with or without children, irrespective of sexual orientation, marital status or ethnic/religious background, and at extended family members and young people (min. 11 years)
 

Parental and sibling relationships:

• Rules and boundaries (e.g. risky online behaviour, school attendance, chores)

• Physical and verbal aggression

• Communication

• Mental health (e.g. isolation, self-harm, substance misuse and anxiety)

• Anger management

 

Couple relationships:

• Communication

• Intimacy and trust

• Child rearing (e.g. appropriate rules, religious affiliation, risky behaviour of children)

• Clash of cultural backgrounds/norms

• Routines and joint activities

• Anger management

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Issues around school

These sessions aim to resolve issues between parents or students and school staff, or between peers.

 

• Behaviour in class (e.g. aggression, exclusion)

• School attendance

• Anxiety and stress management

• Isolation and bullying

• Transition to a new school

• Special educational needs (SEN), e.g. in relation to physical or mental health

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