MEDIATION TODAY

MY GUEST: BOBBY REILLY, Mediator, Gold Coast, Queensland, AUSTRALIA

Bobbi is a Nationally Accredited Mediator, accredited with the Australian Mediation

Bobbi’s professional mediation career stems from a variety of work experiences starting

In today’s episode I am chatting with Ros Lockley, a trainer, mediator and coach.

Ros is a trainer, mediator and coach living on the outskirts of Canberra, regional NSW. She is also a mother of four children.

Growing up on a farm outside of Cootamundra, NSW, Australia, and her mother dying when she was only 9 years old, Ros wanted training in parenting to help her to parent confidently. It was through wanting to discipline her children without damaging the relationship she has with them that she found Parent Effectiveness Training (or P.E.T.).

After working with many parents who feel the same way, she realises that we all have experiences in life that lead to wanting to improve our parenting and communication skills. ‘After all,’ she says, ‘we would get training for any job we do, and parenting is the most important job we ever do as we are raising the next generation.’

Iveta Bales is the Founder of Canberra Mediation Centre. She is also a proud co-founder of The Kind Lawyers. She is a born and bred Canberran and has spent her working life specialising in working with couples who are separating, both as a Lawyer and a Mediator.

Iveta works with clients to structure and restructure their family and their finances both at the beginning and at the end of their relationships. She is innovative and practical with her approach to legal and family issues.

Iveta’s key focus is on keeping conflict to a minimum and ensuring that solutions are tailored to her clients’ needs. Iveta’s practice is holistic and she collaborates with other professionals to ensure that clients have a ‘complete package.’

CLAIRE NAIDU

Claire Naidu is the founder and principal of the legal firm Claire Naidu and Co, situated in the Canberra town centre of Gungahlin. It was founded in 2012 to assist individuals, families, businesses, organisations and communities to improve life experience, relationships, transition through changes, and to improve connection. They have grown to become nationally and internationally recognised.

A list of her achievements, skills and interests is impressive. Claire is a: 

Qualified Mediator

Arbitrator

Relationship Specialist

Relationships Lawyer

Accredited Family Law Specialist

Conflict Resolution Coach

Relationships Coach

Mentor/Coach

Bling Angel

Speaker and Writer.

Claire also gifts her time to various community activities, for example through the ACT Law Society Legal Advice Bureau, The Children’s Playground Project, contributions to Marymead, Salvation Army and a number of other volunteering activities.

In today’s episode my guest is Josephine BYRNES-LUNA, a mediator and counsellor from Sydney. Hello Josephine and thank you for accepting my invitation for this interview.

Josephine is the owner Achieving Solutions Counselling and Mediation Services, which she commenced in 2007 and now has a base office in Camden SW Sydney and occasionally in the Sydney CBD.

Josephine has been working in the counselling space, particularly with relationships, children, parenting and families; since the inception of her practice. After completing collaborative law training in the family law area and then becoming a nationally accredited mediator, she began focusing more on the family law, and towards resolutions particularly with parenting plans and parenting arrangements.

Josephine has a focus on the family and children’s needs and works with families to encourage harmony in the process and the inclusion of children’s voices where it is possible.

In todays episode, I am thrilled to introduce to you JOLENE HILL. No, Jolene is not a mediator, but she does something that every mediator should be very aware of: the importance of listening. The importance of allowing a person to talk. To say what they really wish to say.

Jolene is a creator of YOUR LIFE TALKS, a program through which she encourages people to share their life stories. 

In her signature talk, ‘Your Story Matters’, Jolene shares why she was inspired to create Your Life Talks, with a mission to raise community awareness of the importance of initiating meaningful conversations within families, to recognize our intrinsic need to remember and celebrate our life and achievements.

Greg Rooney 

Greg has been a practising mediator in Australia since 1991. He has mediated more than 1,500 disputes in a diverse range of conflicts including multi-party disputes involving government institutions, commercial and industrial disputes, agricultural disputes, franchise disputes, matrimonial disputes and disputes involving conflict in the workplace. Greg has served a six-year term as a Director of the Mediator Standards Board that regulates the Australian National Mediation Accreditation Scheme. He has since 2004 conducted over 200 face-to-face meetings between religious and military leaders and individual survivors of sexual abuse in religious, government institutions and orphanages as well as abuse within the Australian Defence Forces. He has lectured in mediation, dispute system design and project Alliancing in a number of Australian universities, including the University of Queensland and Southern Cross University. Greg has conducted dispute resolution training for a number of public and private Australian institutions. He has conducted mediation training and retreats in Australia, Europe, Asia and North America. He together with colleagues Margaret Ross and Barbara Wilson run annual mediation retreats in Tuscany, Italy. He has published papers on a number of mediation-based topics in a number of national and international journals copies of which can be downloaded from his web site Papers - Greg Rooney Website: www.gregrooney.com.au 

LOUISE MATHIAS

Louise Mathias calls herself an ‘Ambassador For Ambition’ She is an advanced trained mediator, a multidisciplinary barrister and High Performance Coach and Consultant, and she’ll tell us more about it shortly.

Louise became a lawyer in 2010 and went to the Bar in 2012. After a cancer diagnosis in 2014, she had an epiphany as to what was most important in her life and the direction she would now head in. She appreciated, that in addition to legal skills, there are other essential skills to get optimal results more often while having more fun in conflict resolution, leadership, life and practice.  When I approached her for this interview, Louise told me ‘I’m not your ordinary barrister’ – which made me be even more curious.

Louise coaches lawyers, leaders and doctors to Discover Their Most Powerful Assets, To Skyrocket Their Confidence, with the Total High Performance Blueprint, The Confident Lawyer programs and Consults for organisations with the Daring Leadership Method.

She is an experienced mediator trained in the gold standard Harvard negotiation style. She specialises in family law, family provisions, institutional abuse and medical negligence cases.