Family mediation

A possible collaboration between a lawyer and a mediator.

Family mediation is a process of support for parents who are undertaking a process of separation and/or divorce, aimed at reorganizing one's own life and that of the children, with a specific focus on the well-being of minors.

The person is recognized as an essential and central value and relational well-being is at the heart of the activity of the Family Mediator, who works to protect the relationship between parents and children in situations of separation, divorce or in any case of conflict.

Family mediation is a transversal discipline that uses knowledge of sociology, psychology and jurisprudence aimed at the use of specific techniques such as mediation and conflict negotiation.

From conflict to well-being

The Family Mediator is an expert in communication and conflict management.

Even before being a profession, Family Mediation is a social function in support of social utility and the protection of society. It must be understood as a "community of communities", as a complex plot rich in traditional places and forms of relationship. Paths of Family, Scholastic, Cultural, Penal Mediation therefore to build bridges and provide tools so that the people involved are then able to walk independently.

The Body therefore promotes a constructive culture of conflict by moving from a logic of opposition to one of interaction, identifying in the pre-processual phase the potential for reaching an agreement. It is necessary that all legal practitioners remain sensitive and open to the culture of Family Mediation for a child-centric and future-centric vision. The Body offers its services sometimes even for free, as those who collaborate with us understand Mediation as a social service and have among their primary objectives that of spreading the knowledge and culture of Mediation among all legal operators, Lawyers and Judges, as well as among ordinary people.

Family Mediation is an advantage for all the professionals involved.

Separation and divorce are experiences of a person's life with an intense emotional impact.

Strong feelings emerge, from the desire for revenge to pain, which cloud people's normal judgment. Everything seems confused in a whirlwind of emotions that are difficult to manage. The behavior of the other spouse is filtered by these distorted lenses, in an escalation of conflict which often does not even end with the Judge's sentence. One of the first professionals people come into contact with is the lawyer, who is given a "double mandate": a technical and explicit one, that of managing the negotiation of agreements, achieving the maximum benefit for the client; the other of a relational and implicit nature. The lawyer becomes the "confessor", on whom to pour all one's anxieties and the desire for revenge, to whom one asks for protection and comfort 24 hours a day (including holidays!). With this emotional shock wave, the Client impacts the professional relationship with the Lawyer, in an exhausting and sad struggle, difficult to contain and to bring back to the reality of the judicial process.

Time is saved

The need to listen and protect, to express and manage the deepest feelings, to work through the mourning of separation, are all legitimate in a painful and complex experience such as separation, but they are an excessive request addressed to the lawyer, who spends a lot of time listening to and managing requests, often inappropriate, and formal strategies to implement, to protect your client from behaviors that risk being counterproductive to the cause.

Collaboration between professionals

Here is that a good collaboration between the Lawyer and the Family Mediator can allow the Lawyer to concentrate on the technical part of negotiating agreements, rather than on the infinite requests of the Client and this allows the Family Mediator to offer essential emotional support In this sentence.

The Family Mediator is responsible for managing and containing the marital conflict, so that it does not hinder the negotiation of agreements.

The process of negotiating agreements is facilitated

People who undertake a path of Mediation can come to identify agreements relating to the management of children which become a shared draft on which the Lawyers provide their technical advice, both during the Mediation process (when the Ombudsman invites the parties to discuss some aspects with their lawyer), both at the end of the process, to verify that the interests of their client have been protected and to proceed with the stipulation of the aforementioned agreements before the Judge. Not only is there no competition between a lawyer and a family mediator, but the latter offers important support precisely in the negotiation process, without taking away the lawyer's area of expertise. Furthermore, in partial Mediation, the one not practiced by Lawyers-Mediators, but by professional Mediators, remains outside the Mediation process and therefore entirely within the Lawyer's sphere of competence, all the negotiation with respect to the patrimonial aspects and direct alimony to the spouse and not to the minor.

Center for the protection of family relations

For this reason, the "Center for the protection of family relations" was created on 05.12.2016 and the related Scientific Committee, which deals with listening to and supporting families, civil unions and cohabitations for the resolution of conflicts, family, scholastic, penal, social and intercultural mediation, with the legal and psychological help of team experts.

The "Center for the protection of family relationships" project of the Concordia et Ius srl conciliation body was born from the idea of creating a center where to bring together qualified expert professionals in the activities of helping in interpersonal relationships

By concentrating the civil, family, penal, juvenile and intercultural and social mediation service in a single center, the Concordia et Ius srl conciliation body wants to become an innovative and highly specialized reality in the field of mediation tout court. There are very many sectors that make use of this tool today, and the number is inevitably destined to grow, since every aspect of social life can benefit from it.

The Family Mediation service, when provided by qualified professionals, is a tool of great interest to society and is therefore extremely useful.

The Organism's Mediators have acquired various specializations.

In addition to civil mediators, family mediators, experts in couple psychotherapy, psychologists, social workers, technical consultants, counselors, coaches, lawyers, cultural mediators and all - when necessary - love to work preferably in teams collaborate with the Organism.

The Organism's “Center for the Protection of Family Relations” makes use of numerous professionals who pay particular attention to family relations and, through their activities, aim to support the prevention, management and resolution of family conflicts.

The position of member of the Scientific Committee is free of charge.

The following professionals are part of the Scientific Committee:

Attorney Mariastefania Bartoli

Lawyer Manuela Gucciardo

Lawyer Massimo Pollina

Lawyer Lorena Geraci