THE MARRIAGE MEDIATOR

Amazingly, a neighbor offered a class in NVC right after we'd heard about it and we quickly incorporated it into our mediation practice in small claims court. Once we had figured out how to use NVC in place of our teaching points, Elise and I decided we were ready for the leap - to go into private practice, mediating couples who were committed to each other but were having trouble resolving differences. We wanted to teach couples, married or otherwise, how to work as a team, how to get the benefit of their differences... Elise and I began to want to teach our clients the skills of conflict resolution. After all, it had only taken us 30 hours to learn to be mediators, and it was already changing the way she and I communicated with each other. Since most of our clients had ongoing relationships, we wanted to share this new information with them, so we started doing what we called "teaching points." We'd work on one of the issues in their case, and then we'd explain what it was we had..

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