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Improve and Strengthen Interpersonal Relationships Through:
• More Effective Communication
• Developing Conflict Resolution Skills
• Collaborative Win-Win Problem Solving

Congratulations and thank you … if you have landed on this page, you are likely interested in exploring ways to reduce and resolve conflict, increase problem solving, seek resolution to challenging issues, restore relationships, and improve effectiveness of communication within relationships that are important to you, and/or needed to achieve goals.

Seeking an outside expert to improve your communication and relationship skills, and gaining new insight about how to make work and/or personal relationships better, is just as important as it is to reach out to outside experts for tax advice, real estate advice, medical advice, or other issues that arise in our lives and create uncertainty and challenge.

Personal empowerment leads to taking individual responsibility. Learning specific steps to do things different and better will lead to your own interpersonal success, improvement of interpersonal relationships, and the very rewarding experience of developing a deeper appreciation and understanding that leads to less guessing, more clarity, and more satisfying win-win outcomes and building respectful relationships.

Critical times of conflict test our character like nothing else … but conflict is not something to be afraid of or ignore. Good things are often waiting on the other side of your conflict. If there is authenticity in the dialogue, there is almost always a way to resolve differences, especially if we value the relationships. Building trust and respect and creating win-win solutions is possible; but honesty, introspection, and being open and willing to see things different and be changed by new information is necessary.

Services Provided – providing over 20 years experience to help you:

• Mediation: providing a neutral third party to facilitate productive and collaborative dialogue between those in conflict to help them find their own unique needs-based solutions that are satisfactory to both or all parties (MN Supreme Court Rule 114 Qualified)
• Case Consultant:
  • navigate the divorce, separation, custody, and parenting time process
  • tell your story with clarity
  • decipher “attorney speak”
  • understand what facts and evidence are likely important and what is not
  • understanding the significance of custody evaluations and what type of preparation is needed and how to combat them when they unfairly go against you without just cause
  • analyze mediated agreements before signing to ensure important details that provide utmost clarity to prevent future problems
• Parent/Parenting Coach: parenting time observations, building connections, effective co-parenting, providing input, suggestions, and training to help build strong relationships through more effective written and verbal communication and interactions to improve interpersonal relationships with your co-parent and/or children
• Expert Witness:
  • well-versed, well-researched, and able to speak to social science research on what is best for children
  • intent and background, of statutory changes in 2014 & 2015 to Minnesota Family Law 518
  • provide first hand knowledge of basis, intent, and appropriate application of Minnesota 2019 Child Focused Parenting Guide
  • provide factual presentation of parenting time observations and, where appropriate, analysis of those parenting time observations
• Speaker/Trainer/Facilitator/Coaching:
  • Conflict Resolution & Win-Win Problem Solving: Coaching, Speaking, and Training
  • Communication Effectiveness Training for Leaders, Organizations, and Individuals
    • enhancing leader effectiveness by building trust, loyalty, and respect to achieve necessary results
  • Collaborative Communication Coach: Skill development, preventing and resolving conflict, and assisting with verbal and written skills that increase cooperation