Family MediationA possible collaboration between a lawyer and a mediator.

Family mediation is a support path for parents who are undertaking a process of

separation and/or divorce, aimed at reorganizing one's life and that of one's children, with a specific focus on the well-being of minors.

The person is recognized as having an essential and central value and relational well-being is at the center of the activity of the Family Mediator, who works to protect the relationship between parents and children in situations of separation, divorce or conflict.

Family Mediation is a transversal discipline that uses knowledge specific to sociology, psychology and jurisprudence aimed at the use of specific techniques such as Mediation and conflict negotiation.

From conflict to well-beingThe Family Mediator is an expert in communication and conflict management.

Family Mediation, before being a profession, is a social function in support of social utility and the protection of society must be understood as a "community of communities", as a complex plot rich in places of tradition and forms of relationship. Paths of Family, Scholastic, Cultural, Criminal Mediation therefore to build bridges and provide tools so that the people involved can then walk independently.

The Organization therefore promotes a constructive culture of conflict by moving from a logic of opposition to one of interaction, identifying in the pre-trial phase the potential to reach an agreement. It is necessary that all legal professionals remain sensitive and open to the culture of Family Mediation for a child-centric and future-centric vision. The Organization offers its services sometimes even free of charge, as those who collaborate with us consider Mediation as a social service and have among their primary objectives that of spreading the knowledge and culture of Mediation among all legal professionals, Lawyers and Judges, as well as among ordinary people.

Family Mediation is an advantage for all professionals involvedSeparation and divorce are experiences in a person's life with an intense emotional impact.

Strong feelings emerge, from the desire for revenge to pain, which cloud people's normal judgment. Everything seems confused in a vortex of emotions that are difficult to manage. The behaviors of the other spouse are filtered through these distorted lenses, in a conflictual escalation that often does not even end with the Judge's sentence. One of the first professionals people come into contact with is the Lawyer, who is given a "double mandate": one technical and explicit, that of managing the negotiation of agreements, obtaining the maximum benefit for the client; the other of a relational and implicit nature. The Lawyer becomes the "confessor", on whom to pour out all one's anxieties and desire for revenge, to whom one asks for protection and comfort 24 hours a day (including holidays!). With this emotional shock wave, the Client impacts the professional relationship with the Lawyer, in an exhausting and sad struggle, difficult to contain and to bring back into the reality of the judicial process.

It saves timeThe needs for listening and protection, for the expression and management of deepest feelings, for the mourning of separation, are all legitimate in a painful and complex experience such as separation, but they are an excessive request addressed to the Lawyer, who spends a lot of time listening and managing requests, often inappropriate, and formal strategies to implement, to protect his client from behaviors that risk being counterproductive for the cause.

Collaboration between professionalsHere is that a good collaboration between the Lawyer and the Family Mediator, can allow the Lawyer to concentrate on the technical part of negotiating agreements, rather than on the infinite requests of the Client and this allows the Family Mediator to offer essential emotional support in this phase.

The Family Mediator is responsible for managing and containing marital conflict, so that it does not hinder the negotiation of agreements.

The process of negotiating agreements is facilitatedPeople who undertake a Mediation process can come to identify agreements relating to the management of children that become a shared draft on which the Lawyers provide their technical advice, both during the Mediation process (when the Mediator invites the parties to discuss certain aspects with their lawyer), and at the end of the process, to verify that the interests of their client have been protected and proceed to the stipulation of the aforementioned agreements before the Judge. Not only is there no competition between the Lawyer and the Family Mediator, but the latter offers important support in the negotiation process itself, without taking away the Lawyer's area of expertise. Furthermore, in partial Mediation, the one not practiced by Lawyer-Mediators, but by professional Mediators, all the negotiations regarding the patrimonial aspects and maintenance directed to the spouse and not to the minor remain outside the Mediation process and therefore entirely within the Lawyer's area of expertise.

Center for the Protection of Family RelationsFor this reason, the “Center for the Protection of Family Relations” and its Scientific Committee were created on 12.05.2016, which deals with listening and support for families, civil unions and cohabitations for conflict resolution, family, school, criminal, social and intercultural mediation, with the legal and psychological assistance of experts in a team.

The project "Centre for the protection of family relations" of the Conciliation Body Concordia et Ius srl was born from the idea of creating a centre where qualified expert professionals in the activities of assistance in interpersonal relationships could be brought together

By concentrating in a single center the service of civil, family, criminal, juvenile and intercultural and social mediation, the Conciliation Body Concordia et Ius srl wants to become an innovative and highly specialized reality in the matter of mediation tout court. There are numerous sectors that today make use of this tool, and the number is inevitably destined to grow, since every aspect of social life can benefit from it.

The Family Mediation service, when provided by qualified professionals, is a tool of great interest to society and is therefore extremely useful.

The Mediators of the Organization have acquired various specializations.

In addition to civil mediators, the Organization also collaborates with family mediators, experts in couple psychotherapy, psychologists, social workers, technical consultants, counselors, coaches, lawyers, cultural mediators and all – when necessary – love to work preferably in teams.

The Organization's "Center for the Protection of Family Relations" employs numerous professionals who pay particular attention to family relations and, through their activities, aim to support the prevention, management and resolution of family conflicts.

The position of member of the Scientific Committee is unpaid.

The following professionals are part of the Scientific Committee:

Ave. Maria Stefania Bartoli

Attorney Manuela Gucciardo

Attorney Massimo Pollina

Attorney Lorena Geraci