Mediation

Conflicts are part of everyday family life: we humans always have different needs that clash, but at the same time we are also emotionally and materially dependent on each other, and both these factors trigger conflicts. Ideally, such conflicts are discussed and solutions are found that satisfy everyone involved. If conflicts in families drag on over a long period of time, months or years, it can become tedious and painful. It limits our enjoyment of life and creates distance from the people who are actually dear to us and whom we actually want to be close to.

Conflicts don’t usually drag on for so long because people deliberately want to harm each other, but out of helplessness – the family members don’t know how to deal with the conflict other than, for example, keeping their distance, making accusations or adapting silently; we want to preserve what little harmony there still is, we are afraid that our loved ones will turn their backs on us, or we urgently want to be taken seriously. Every behavior in conflicts is an attempt at a solution, even if the result is not a good solution or even harms others.

With my support, you will experience a way of dealing with conflicts in which you develop understanding for each other and at the same time are taken seriously. I ensure respectful communication and create the conditions for you to be able to dialogue with your closest or more distant relatives. Only when we feel understood are we able to rethink our own position and actions and approach each other. My role here is to take both sides’ concerns seriously and, if necessary, to reformulate them so that it is easier for the other side to understand and accept them.

Be it in conflicts with your parents-in-law, who are interfering in your children’s upbringing, or in a divorce or inheritance dispute, mediation by an outsider can set hardened positions in motion and make decisions possible again – and in the best case bring family members closer together.