Mediation

Conflicts are part of everyday life: Human beeings always have different needs that clash, if at the same time we are emotionally and materially dependent on each other this triggers conflict. Ideally, such conflicts are discussed and solutions are found that satisfy everyone involved. If conflicts 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 actually matter to us.

Conflicts don’t usually drag on for so long because people deliberately want to harm each other, but out of helplessness – as neighbours, friends, members of an association, relatives or other we often don’t know better how to deal with conflict other than, for example, keeping 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 conflict in which you develop understanding for the other side while at the same time are being heard. Only when we feel understood are we able to rethink our own positions and actions. My role here is to ensure that both sides take each others concerns seriously and to create the conditions for you to be able to approach each other in a respectful way.

Be it in conflicts with your parents-in-law, who are interfering in your children’s upbringing, in a divorce, in an inheritance dispute, or with other people you deal with privately, mediation by an outsider can set hardened positions in motion and make decisions possible again – and in the best case enable peaceful coexistence.