✓ Custody, guardianship, parenting plans

✓ Living arrangements, parenting time, parenting responsibilities, access

✓ Child support, spousal support, property division of assets and debts

✓ Estate and neighbour disputes

✓ Elder and dependents care

✓Workplace, small business, and strata conflicts

✓ Civil disagreements of any kind

Mindful mediation is about finding resolution, coming together and making things work, even when it feels challenging. Led by a neutral facilitator and guided by mindfulness techniques, mindful mediation offers more control over processes and outcomes. We incorporate mindfulness into our legal work together as needed or requested using techniques like curious inquiry, radical acceptance, breathwork, and meditation.

Scientific studies have shown that mindfulness practices:

✓decrease your stress;

✓ enhance your capacity for dealing with conflict;

✓ help you make better decisions; and

✓ enable you to access peace in your life right now.

Over the years many clients have thanked us for their courtroom successes and negotiated agreements. But more than this, they appreciated the eye-opening mindfulness work we did together to root them into a place where they could face reality and take action to create a better, calmer life for themselves and their families.

As lawyers and mediators, our focus is on helping you resolve your dispute. Our skills as mindfulness instructors allow us to support you emotionally throughout the process, so you can feel calmer and more in control. This type of support is the missing "peace" needed to make resolving conflict a more effective process for everyone involved.

Yes! In fact, at the beginning of most mediations, people don’t agree on very much at all. The mediator will help build a bridge of agreement between you.

Also, if you need, we can create more than one agreement. For example, you can make a Parenting Plan, in writing, and then months later divide your assets. You can make an agreement in your small business and then change it in writing, by agreement, later on.

Most family law mediations finish within the first month of sessions, although timeframes rely on involved parties, their needs, and levels of engagement.

Mediation is typically much more affordable (and much faster!) than going to court. Court battles typically last about two years, with legal bills equalling the price of a brand new car. No, really, it’s true!

To receive a custom quote on our services, contact us now

We practice needs-based mediation. We believe this leads to more functional, lasting agreements.

We strongly encourage people to seek legal advice from their own lawyer and to only make agreements that meet their needs and the needs of their children.

Needs should not be compromised although one may give and take on positions and items to reach an agreement that meets their needs.

Contact us to receive a custom quote on our services.

This is a private meeting with your mediator to discuss goals, express concerns, frustrations or issues you anticipate. During this meeting you will:

* Review the mediation-readiness checklist.

* Create a personalized mediation plan.

* Aurora will tell you “go get independent legal advice”, and will tell you how.

* Discuss the logistics related to the agreement.

This is the bulk of our work. During mediation:

At this time, we’re conducting all mediation online, using a secure and confidential web-service. Clients need internet or phone access.

You’ll share information and discuss everything needed to meet the present and future needs of you and your family.

Within a month, you’ll come together for two half-day mediation meetings. We’ll add more meetings as needed.

This is the best part: You go home while the mediator creates your agreement. Your agreement will be:

* Created by your mediator according to the decisions you’ve made.

* Be signed by both parties and witnessed by their own lawyers.

* Completely legally-binding.

If you're married and need a divorce, I can work with both of you to file for divorce. The separation agreement details how you’ll restructure everything. The divorce is the official paperwork you to get a court to grant your divorce.

I know this sounds complex. Once your agreement is signed, I’ll guide you through the next steps.

Definitely. Please send your detailed media inquiry request to our office with your inquiry.