It’s 9:30 in the evening. The children are asleep, the kitchen is tidy, and there you both are in the living room, each on your phone. There were words again tonight — or worse, there were none at all. And somewhere between the tiredness and the knot in your stomach, a sentence takes shape, the one we don’t always dare say out loud: “we can’t go on like this.” When a couple reaches that point, the first idea that comes to mind is almost always the same: “maybe we should see s

At first glance, when we think of mediation, and helping professions in general, we mostly think of a face-to-face meeting, around a table with glasses of water and a plant in the corner. The pandemic has changed everything and propelled us into a virtual world that we would not have, or hardly, imagined in this profession before 2020. When it became impossible for us to go to work and receive people in the office, we were faced with a choice: stop offering mediation services

The term "mediation" is often misused, applied in various contexts to refer to practices that sometimes have nothing in common (cultural mediation, environmental mediation, judicial mediation, etc.). Even when there is a general agreement that mediation is "a conflict management process where an impartial third party guides the parties in dialogue," many differences remain in how mediation is practiced. Indeed, there are various approaches to mediation, ranging from legalisti