Emergence Mediation
The way forward.
Few people naturally excel at difficult conversations. When you’re caught in a dispute, it’s hard to see beyond the conflict. That’s where we come in — helping you navigate the complexity, uncover hidden opportunities to create value, and develop lasting agreements.
Our Services
We provide neutral, confidential conflict resolution services and consulting to a broad clientele, helping our clients save time and money, preserve relationships, create customized solutions, maintain control of the outcome, and address the underlying issues of their conflict. As an impartial guide through difficult conversations, we ensure all voices are heard and respected. Our services include but are not limited to the following:
Family and Divorce Mediation
We help families navigate challenging transitions with dignity and respect. Our mediation services provide a structured framework and cooperative forum for resolving all manner of family related matters including but not limited to communication strategies, elder care decisions, financial disputes, divorce and separation agreements, and parenting plans.
Employment and Labor Mediation
We facilitate productive dialogue between employers, employees, and union representatives to resolve workplace conflicts efficiently and preserve professional relationships. We have extensive experience in mediating and facilitating the resolution of workplace disputes and grievances, labor contract negotiations, and performance management issues.
HOA and Neighbor-to-Neighbor Mediation
We provide neutral facilitation for homeowners associations, helping preserve community relationships while resolving conflicts over rule enforcement, common area usage, board governance, covenant interpretation, and other community issues. Our services also support the resolution of property boundary disputes, privacy concerns, pet-related issues, and a variety of other matters that can arise between neighbors.
Landlord-Tenant Mediation
We facilitate constructive dialogue between landlords and tenants to resolve disputes efficiently and save all parties time and money. For example, our services can assist in the resolution of lease disputes and interpretation, maintenance and repair responsibilities, and property access concerns.
Commercial Mediation
We help businesses resolve contractual disputes while preserving valuable commercial relationships and avoiding costly litigation. Our mediation services can address contract interpretation and performance disputes, payment and billing conflicts, construction and project management conflicts, and a variety of other disputes that can arise around contracts for goods and services.
Organizational Consultation and Facilitated Dialogues
We partner with a variety of businesses and organizations to help them identify their conflict patterns and design effective conflict management systems that transform disputes into opportunities for constructive growth and organizational advancement. Additionally, we can help any organization gather essential feedback and input on their plans or operations through targeted, facilitated dialogue with stakeholders.
What to Expect
If Emergence Mediation takes on your case, all parties involved will benefit from our commitment to professional ethics, our dedication to subject-matter expertise in every case, and our constant efforts to remain on the forefront of developing standards of practice.
Our General Process
- Initial Consultation: Understanding the nature of the conflict and establishing goals
- Preparation: Setting ground rules and gathering necessary information
- Mediation Sessions: Facilitating constructive dialogue and exploring potential solutions
- Agreement Development: Documenting mutually acceptable solutions
- Follow-Up: Ensuring implementation of agreements and addressing any emerging concerns
Benefits of Choosing Our Services
- Gain mutual understanding in a cooperative environment that allows for relationship preservation.
- Maintain control of the outcome and develop agreements tailored to your specific situation.
- Reduce or avoid expensive and time-consuming litigation.
- Wherever needed or requested, we collaborate and coordinate closely with parties’ attorney representatives while maintaining our neutral role.
“We loved working with Kristopher. His commitment to ensuring that both parties were invested in the outcome and empowered as the developers and owners of our agreement helped us avoid unnecessary litigation.”
Past client of Emergence Mediation, LLC
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