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| May 10, 2012 |
| "Growing Through Divorce" Support Group Begins In June, 2012! |
| Posted By Bev Jewell |
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Palm Springs Divorce Recovery Group Begins June, 2012
Marriage Counselor/Divorce Coach, Bev Jewell, is offering another 6 week "Growing Through Divorce™" support group beginning the first week of June. This opportunity is ideal for people who are recently separated, stuck within the divorce process, or who are coping with the aftermath of relationship end months or even years following your breakup.
As you well know, divorce is a crisis that dramatically alters the foundations of a person's life. "Growing Through Divorce™" helps to create a sense of security, community, support and personal growth so people can get through this stage of confusion and grief and start to productively build their new life. Sharing this experience with others who are similarly situated has immense power and benefits.
The group's focus includes moving through the emotional stages of the divorce process in order to reintegrate and rebalance ourselves;. These stages often involve denial that the divorce is really happening, questioning (bargaining) if one could have done more to prevent the divorce, becoming unstuck in patterns of blame/anger at "the other" for "doing this to them". These emotions, as well as the deep sense of loss, have to be addressed and dealt with before forgiveness and acceptance can be approximated or achieved. It is also important to understand the roles that partners played in the marriage, the lessons that can be learned, and to feel gratitude for what was good and wonderful, when it was. Without this healing process people often rebound into another relationship, carrying their previous baggage with them, or transfer their distress to their children or others.
Each group is limited to a maximum of 8 people, in order to create a more personal and intimate dialogue and experience. The workshop is six weeks long. Each session is 90 minutes, The cost is $25 a week per person, and is intended to be affordable.
If this process sounds like it might have value for you, please call Bev Jewell at 760-699-7027 for more information and to reserve your spot in the group!
Related Websites: www.growingthroughdivorce.com,
www.desertdivorcesolutions.com and
www.essentialfocus.com
Please note: This workshop takes place at the Palm Springs offices of Desert Family Mediation Services, but is not in any way sponsored by DFMS. |
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| May 03, 2012 |
| Riverside County Family Law Mediation Panel Launches on May 3, 2012 |
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Divorce and Family Law Mediations, Riverside County, California
The Riverside County Superior Court's Family Law Mediation Panel website profiles were published today. We are pleased to report that DFMS Mediator Thurman W. Arnold, in his role as Chair of the Desert Bar Association's Family Law Section, has been instrumental in helping to establish this first-ever mediation panel for family law matters in Riverside County.
Mr. Arnold's mediator information for the Panel can be accessed by clicking here.
There are approximately 26 family law mediators who have been approved, within the entire county, as possessing the minimum qualifications necessary to join the Panel. Congratulations to each and every one! Please click the above link to review the backgrounds and qualifications of these individuals, as well as their rates, as an aid in selecting a family law mediator who may be of useful service to you and your family. You will find wide differences between them in terms of their mediation training, experience, and styles that may be of value to you in choosing the most appropriate mediator for your family and your needs. Regardless of the different backgrounds of these individuals, they all share an uncommon interest and devotion to peacemaking as a more positive alternative to traditional styles for resolving matrimonial, domestic partner, and child-related disputes - which we urge is very much cheaper, more efficient, and pro-active than what people typically experience in Family Court litigation. These mediators are all the "cream of the crop"; frankly, other professionals who hold themselves out as mediators within our communities who've not bothered to take extensive mediation training and who don't care to seek to join the Panel mean well but may lack the mediation expertise and skillfulness that you deserve. Experience does matter.
It is important to note that these Mediation Panelists, in their role as private mediators, are not in any way connected with the Riverside County Court. Indeed, the Court's website contains this important disclaimer: "This information has been provided by the mediator and has not been independently verified by the Court. The Court provides this list of mediators as a public service. The Court does not endorse, recommend or make any warranty as to the qualifications or competency of any provider on the list. Inclusion on the list is based on the representations of the mediator. The Court assumes no responsibility of liability for any act or omission of any mediator on the list."
Desert Family Mediation Services is the premiere family law mediation firm in the Coachella Valley. We provide free mediation orientation sessions for those who wish to discover whether mediation is appropriate to their circumstances. There is no obligation and we are honored to help you evaluate whether this option makes sense and is workable for you!
Please give DFMS™ a call - we are easy to talk to!
MEDIA ADVISORY FROM BARRIE J. ROBERTS, DIRECTOR OF ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROGRAMS, RIVERSIDE COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT
May 3, 2012
NEW MEDIATION PANEL HELPS FAMILIES RESOLVE DIVORCE, CUSTODY, SPOUSAL AND CHILD SUPPORT DISPUTES WITHOUT COURT TRIAL
RIVERSIDE COUNTY: The Riverside County Superior Court is pleased to announce a new resource for families and couples facing family law disputes.
The new Family Law Private Mediation Panel lists over 20 attorney-mediators countywide who are ready to help parties work out solutions to their divorce, custody, visitation, spousal and child support disputes without adversarial court hearings or trial.
The panel includes mediators who serve every area of Riverside County, including Blythe, Indio, Palm Springs, downtown Riverside, Hemet, Banning, Temecula, Moreno Valley, Corona and more.
The new panel was posted on the court's website today: http://adr.riverside.courts.ca.gov/adr/fl/ Also posted was a new web page filled with information about private mediation for family law cases:
http://riverside.courts.ca.gov/adr/famlaw_privatemediation.shtml
According to Presiding Judge Sherrill Ellsworth, "Our family law judges strongly encourage parties to use alternative dispute resolution, including mediation, to resolve their disputes."
"Costly and stressful adversarial court hearings are rarely in the best interests of the children or the parents," said Indio Family Law Judge Dale Wells. "Mediation gives parties the opportunity to express their concerns in a safe and private environment. With the mediator's help, the parties can reach voluntary agreements that are custom-made for their particular situation."
And, Judge Jackson Lucky, Family Law judge in downtown Riverside points out, "Family law decisions are so important because they deal with children and family finances. The parties understand their needs better than anyone else. Mediation puts control where it should be: with the parties. It allows them to make the best choices for themselves, instead of hoping that a judge, who is a stranger, will make the right decisions for them."
All mediators on the court's Family Law Private Mediation Panel are attorneys with at least 5 years of family law experience in Riverside County. Many have had extensive training in family law mediation. Several are certified as Family Law Specialists by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization.
To schedule a mediation session with a member of the new panel, parties simply contact the mediator of their choice. Each panel mediator has posted an on-line Profile describing his or her background, contact and fee information, including whether reduced rates are offered. |
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| February 11, 2012 |
| Announcing WEBSITE DESIGN and SEO For Mediators By Thurman Arnold |
| Posted By Thurman W. Arnold, III |
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Website Design, Development and Optimization for
Divorce and Family Law Mediation
This blog article is written for anyone who is a mediator, or who is beginning to seriously consider making the commitment to establishing a mediation practice within their community. In order to be successful, you need to be visible to the public you would serve. However, for most legal professionals how to accomplish that visibility on the Web is a deep mystery.
I believe so passionately in mediation as a highly productive, relatively inexpensive, and richly satisfying alternative to family court litigation that I want to do everything within my sphere of influence to popularize it, including helping other lawyer-mediators and nonlawyer mediators to establish and develop their own dispute resolution practices. The internet is an incredible tool for reaching out to legal consumers and educating them about the availability and benefits of this option. It is an excellent setting for showcasing our own mediation philosophies and styles. Those of us who love to mediate because of the positive differences it makes in people's lives - and in our own professional practices to the extent that we divorce attorneys become an active part of the solution, rather than problem generators - have the opportunity and possibly even the responsibility to do everything we can to have an on-line conversation with disputants about the economic and emotional perils of adversary litigation. Mediator websites are a powerful platform from which to begin that dialogue. Not only do our on-line identities represent an ethical vehicle for attracting business and so earning a living, they are tools for change in how society, and people at the end of relationship in particular, make choices about what we value. If we value relationship warfare, that is what we will experience together with all the harm it causes ourselves and others. If people recognize that it is natural to be conflicted and reactive when the emotional and economic relationship implodes, but that it is possible to manage those feelings and to choose not to let them rule our lives, then another world of choices and outcomes opens up. The goal of dissolution related mediation is to alleviate human suffering, one couple at a time.
For these reasons I've decided to offer my services to legal and mental health professionals who wish to develop a sophisticated on-line presence in the field of divorce and family law mediation. After having invested hundreds and hundreds of hours developing my own sites, and sites for others (including two nationally recognized mediation trainers), I have gained a powerful intimacy with how Google and other search engines operate. I want to apply that expertise to your advantage. I can assist you with website design, in choosing and negotiating with the right website design company (for instance, Scorpion Designs), with important feedback concerning whether to incur costs with website developers like Findlaw.com and Mediate.com, and with search engine optimization techniques and content writing. My websites speak for themselves (please feel free to browse the links at the bottom of this page, and www.LosAngelesFamilyMediationServices.com). And they speak to potential mediation clients 24/7.
If you wish to know more about the types of services I can offer you, and the reasons why utilizing these services will have a far higher impact on your customer base and the success of your mediation practices, please visit me at www.FamilyLawSEOSpecialists.com.
Thurman Arnold, III
Mediation Website Design and Optimization
Email:
twarnold@verizon.net
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| February 07, 2012 |
| GARY FRIEDMAN to Teach RIVERSIDE County Attorneys Mediation Skills at Upcoming Workshop |
| Posted By Desert Family Mediation Services |
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I am pleased to be this year's Chair of the Desert Bar Association's Family Law Section (FLS). Together with Barrie Roberts, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Director for the Riverside County Superior Courts, FLS is putting on a mediation program for family law attorneys in the Palm Springs and greater Riverside County area to introduce us to the Understanding Based Mediation Model developed by Gary J. Friedman, and as a useful tool in appropriate family law cases for helping people resolve their cases with far less strife than traditionally encountered.
The Riverside County Superior Court is launching a county-wide Family Law Mediation Panel in March, 2012, which is aimed at serving at least two purposes: 1) increasing the number of trained family law mediators to include those family law attorneys who are approved by the Courts as having significant family law background and experience and 2) creating a pool of trained mediators for the new Voluntary Settlement Conference Program (VSC) that will begin to take place in April, 2012 for selected self-represented parties to pending dissolution cases.
Gary Friedman will be putting on a four-day workshop in Palm Springs at the end of February, and in the first week of March, for lawyers who have been accepted to the new Mediation Panel (and certain non-lawyers including mental health professionals, who will be eligible to co-mediate cases with attorneys), and for those who are interested in adding mediation to their family law and civil practices but who don't qualify for the Panel. This program is made possible through the sponsorship of the Riverside County Bar Association's Dispute Resolution Services program, as well as the sponsorship of the Desert Bar Association and the Riverside Courts.
Beginning in approximately April of this year, Judge Dale Wells of the Indio Superior Court will be supervising a new VSC program in Indio on the first Monday of each month, relying upon the services of the members of the newly created Mediation Panel. Its focus for now will be directed to assisting parties without lawyers to move their divorce and family law cases to conclusion through mediation rather than litigation. We hope to expand the program to make mediation a viable alternative for resolving pending cases in our jurisdiction.
This is truly and exciting development. Approximately 15 attorneys in the greater Coachella Valley will be participating in this workshop, as well as attorneys from Hemet and downtown Riverside. This is expected to have benefits to the public beyond the Panel and VSC program, by increasing the number of trained and experienced family law mediators in our area. Mediation truly helps attorneys, even in litigated cases, to focus on compromise and resolution rather than expensive and time-consuming litigation in every case.
T.W. Arnold, Chair of the Family Law Section of the Desert Bar Association (2012)
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