Peace-Making helps create peace in family conflicts.

We believe resolving conflict cares for you now.  Helping you learn to resolve conflict cares for us all.

We do mediation in all forms.  We offer the efficient and common problem solving mediation, and we provide Transformational Mediation, which is the most valuable and unusual mediation.  It enables you to resolve the misconceptions creating the conflict, the emotions driving it and the story holding it.  Transformational Mediation is essential for separating parents who want to minimize the damage to their children and to continue to raise their children as co-parents.

First, we help you create the kind of mediation that will serve your shared needs.  This usually takes 45 minutes and costs $75.

If you choose Transformational Mediation, we help you create peace.  That means we lend you our skills.  They enable you to discuss shared problems safely and respectfully, to dissolve conflict, and to create connection and understanding.  If you elect to use the “community standard of fairness” (what courts and problem solving mediation does), we help you get good legal advice about what that “community standard of fairness” is and how to understand and apply it together to your situation.  Instead of having a judge, you are the co-judges working together, making fair mutual decisions.  We help create lasting solutions.

Even intense, frightening, passionately held conflicts that have endured for years, readily come apart by applying the skills of Peace-Making.

We help you reach clear decisions together on whether to end the relationship in divorce or create time in two temporary homes for healing and growth to see if these new skills can repair the relationship.  We help you work out safe, fair ways to create the decision and implement it immediately.

We only work as neutrals.  We mediate, model and teach Peace-Making as a reliable way to create peace and transform conflict and relationships.

Our Goal:  To transform the power of conflict into enthusiastic cooperation, and to share skills that sustain that transformation.

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The Next Page is Peace as a Method which describes the value of Peace, the method that creates the Path to Peace and the Peace-Making Theory.

Stopping the pain sets out the ways of creating immediate relief through Separation/Divorce while Caring for Children and building the end resolution you have chosen.

About Mediation explains mediation and includes Creating Your Mediation, How Mediation Works, which includes Complex Issues, Resolution Without Trial, the Mediation Contract and Learning Peace-Making Skills.

Levels of Legal Safety, describes how to create legal safety, describes the Collabortive Process as an alternative to mediation for people wanting absolute legal safety and a mediation type of process.  Its pages include Using Attorneys,  and the Collaboration Contract.   Mediation at a Distance tells how we can help anyone anywhere in Oregon mediate their marital conflict.  Useful Resources provides referrals to materials, specially trained attorneys and therapists.

Let Us Help You create peace and protect yourselves and your children from the emotional and financial loses of divorce and trial warfare.  Contact us at 503-228-7256, 5745 NE Glisan, Portland, Oregon 97213 or sasmith@peace-making.com.

Thank you for your time and consideration.