National Family Mediation
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NFM is delighted to support the new innovation of National Family Week. We in NFM know only too well the devastating impact family breakdown can have and the repercussions can last for years. In NFM we work to ameliorate the worst effects of divorce or separation and help parents to negotiate their new roles as separated cooperative supportive parents. For children having both parents involved in their lives and working together after separation is key to children's successes. To often the conflict and residual problems of the parents relationship rumbles on for years creating tension and an atmosphere of mistrust damaging the parents but particularly their children. Parents owe it to themselves and their children to resolve these difficulties and what better way to do it than through fun, quality events that help families spend time together.
Jane Robey, CEO
Website: www.nfm.org.uk
National Family Mediation (NFM) helps those involved in family breakdown to communicate better with one another and reach their own decisions about all or some of the issues arising from separation or divorce; - children, contact, residence, property and financial matters.
Mediation is about directly negotiating your own decisions with the help of a trained skilled third party. It is an alternative to solicitors negotiating for you or having decisions made for you by the courts. Entering mediation is always voluntary.
How does mediation work?
A trained mediator will meet with you both for a series of sessions in which you will be helped to
- Identify all the matters you wish to consider
- Collect the necessary information
- Talk about the choices open to you
- Negotiate with each other to reach decisions that are acceptable to you both
- Discuss how you can consult your children appropriately about arrangements
What are the benefits of mediation?
Research conducted by The Joseph Rowntree Foundation with Newcastle University identified that three years later couples felt that mediation had helped them to:
- End the relationship amicably
- Reduce conflict
- Maintain good relationships with their ex partners
- Carry less bitterness and resentment into their post-divorce lives.
- Be more content with existing child care arrangements and less likely to have disagreements about child contact.
- Be able to reach agreement that had survived the test of time.
- Be glad they had used mediation.