Open Space Mediation Blog

Why is that? Well, who wants to spoil the holiday season with talk of divorce - especially if they have children? If couples are leaning toward divorce, the tendency is to “gut it out” through the holidays so that the family can have one last holiday season together...

If you’re anything like me, well, you HATE conflict. Ironic, since I’m a conflict specialist, right? Physician, heal thyself, and so forth. There was a day when I would do anything I could to avoid an uncomfortable situation or a conflict. Seemed like a good way to...

This month we mourn the passing of badass country music singer, Loretta Lynn. She died in her sleep at the age of 90. She was born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky in 1932, the second of eight children. She married at the ripe old age of 15 (or 13, as she claimed in “Coal...

Written by guest expert, Julia Mitchell at Outspiration.net A growing number of single women are entering the housing market, buying their own properties and reaping the rewards and benefits of homeownership. If you’re in the market for your first place, are...

Guest post written by Julia Mitchell of outspiration.net Our lives are made up of a series of actions that we choose to take. If you feel anything less than fulfilled, happy, and whole, it may be time to change some of these actions. Today, we’ll take a look at a few...

There’s no getting around it: Divorce sucks. Divorce and separation can have a wide range of negative outcomes for everyone involved – men, women, and children alike.If you’ve been in the industry for any length, or if you’ve gone through your own divorce, you’re...

I love being a divorce mediator. I love watching people in conflict learn to work through past business and look toward the future, as co-problem solvers. It’s so important - especially if couples have kids. Regardless of whether they are in a high-conflict divorce,...

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: divorce sucks. Even if it’s just a run-of-the-mill, no-frills divorce. They suck – they just do. Nobody gets married with the eventual plan to divorce, but here we are: some 50% of marriages end in divorce. It’s just the way...

As a Colorado-based mediator, I get a lot of questions about modifying parenting time, or child custody. When parties divorce, they may get an initial custody order that outlines parenting time, but if circumstances change, the court can modify the order at any point....