Mediation Made Easy

Mediation Made Easy offers you over 50 years of combined facilitation, mediation, and relationship-building experience. Our philosophy is to make the process uncomplicated, empower the parties, and to work diligently and smartly to achieve a mutually acceptable resolution. At Mediation Made Easy, we value collaboration, dignity, safety, balance, and flexibility. In the end, we want you to walk away knowing that you have been heard and that you were a significant contributor to the solution.

What is mediation?

Mediation is a collaborative and individualized process through which a neutral party helps individuals articulate interests, exchange ideas, and create a jointly acceptable resolution to a dispute. A mediator clarifies conversations, identifies issues, tests the merits of positions, and assists the individuals in moving toward common ground. The results of the mediation process are solutions that are personally relevant to you and that are more likely to survive over time.

Our core guiding principles at Mediation Made Easy are confidentiality, collaborative contribution, voluntary participation, providing a fair, safe, and balanced process, and driving for mutually acceptable agreements.

What can be mediated?

At Mediation Made Easy, our mediators are trained and have experience facilitating resolution in areas from business acquisition agreements and succession planning to landlord/tenant disagreements and child visitation settlements. Our experience is deep and the breadth is wide.

So, what can be mediated? Many things ... issues, concerns, claims, and disputes relating to business, family, relationships, and to life in general.

Business:

• Acquisition
• Formation; organization, communication flow, objectives
• Contract interpretation
• Harassment, grievances, disciplinary, and discrimination
• Merging and reorganization:
  • Organizational components; internal or external
  • Separate organizations; culture harmonization
• Partnership dissolution
• Succession planning
• Work conditions and work rules

Family and Relationships:

• Family conflict
• Parent and child relationship
• Elder care decisions
• End-of-life planning
• Parenting plans
• Youth issues; school issues

Marital Relations:

• Separation
• Divorce
• Child custody and visitation agreement
• Collaborative divorce
• Prenuptial agreement
• Financial distribution
• Spousal support

General:

• Builders and contractors disagreement
• Realtor disputes
• Landlord and tenant disagreement
• Homeowners issues
• Victim and offender agreement

What's in it for you?

You are going to save money. On average, mediation is 60% less expensive than litigation. You are going to have the opportunity to resolve your dispute with dignity, confidentiality, and flexibility. You are going to be participating in a process that is responsive, private, and sensitive. You are going to create a solution that is unique to your situation. And when it matters, you can preserve a relationship that may have otherwise been stressed to ruin.

The bottom line is: mediation is individual-centric and with this being the case ... it's all about you.

About Us -- Why Mediation Made Easy?

Ayme Pointer, Mediator, MME President

• Over 20 years experience in facilitative decision support analysis and implementation
• Nationally certified facilitator – International Association of Facilitators
• Dedicated Virginia state mediation training – Northern Virginia Mediation Services
• Court Appointed Child Advocate – Commonwealth of Virginia
• Author of best-selling professional reference: The Desktop Encyclopedia for Facilitation
• Adjunct professor, Communications, George Mason University
• A client list that reads like a Who’s Who from among the largest federal agencies and Fortune 500 companies

... Because I care and I listen ... and you'll know it when you see it!

Dan Curlee, J.D., Mediator

• Practicing attorney
• Business transactions
• Business structuring
• Administrative process
• Executive management
• Fifteen years CEO - information technology contractor - federal level
• Ten years business consulting - public and private organizations
• Five years managing attorney at 35-attorney firm
• Certified Mediator
• Business transaction/disputes
• Board of Directors - organizational and governance disputes

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Created On: 11/12/2009

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Locations : Haymarket, VA; Manassas, VA

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