Family Mediation · North East of England
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My name is Rachel Moles. I am a trained family mediator based in Newcastle upon Tyne. I am good at cutting through complexity to get at what matters, and excavating the common ground that exists under conflict. Come to me for help in having the conversations you can no longer avoid. I will try to remove the blocks to understanding between you and in so doing to help you and any children you have.
Before training in family mediation, I enjoyed a varied career in teaching, international development, and the performing arts. Though seemingly different, every professional role that I have played so far has relied upon one essential skill: listening.
Services
Overmorrow Mediation offers a full range of family mediation services.
Mediation always starts with a Mediation Information and Assessment Meeting. This is your opportunity to explain the challenges you face and talk through the issues you hope to resolve. The mediator will explain what to expect from mediation, the principles that guide it, and what other options you have. The mediator will also assess your case for its suitability for mediation.
For some, the MIAM is a standalone meeting. For others, it's a preliminary step before joint mediation begins.
Anyone applying to the family court is required to have had a MIAM within four months of their application to the court.
For many separating and divorcing couples, the most complex and contested questions involve their children. How do you share their time now that it's split between you? How do you co-parent under separate roofs? How do you work together while moving on from one another?
Mediation exists to make difficult conversations possible. The presence of a neutral third party can automatically make things easier, and trained mediators know how to keep the conversation focused on the decisions you must take together; mediation is geared towards reaching sustainable agreements. As you go through the process, you'll also learn ways of communicating that will help you after mediation ends.
At your request, the mediator can turn your agreements into a Parenting Plan.
The aim of financial mediation is getting to a Memorandum of Understanding that can form the basis of a Financial Order. Through mediated conversation, you will decide together how to divide your property and assets in a way that is fair and practical and ensures you both have what you need, now and in the future.
These may be practical questions; they're also highly emotive. Many of us find our finances stressful at the best of times. For separating and divorcing couples, there's even more at stake — and you don't get to make the same set of decisions again.
Mediation offers the most cost-effective way of reaching an agreement you can implement. It paves the way to a life post-divorce.
How it works
If you get in touch via email or the contact form below, I will respond with information on how to proceed.
Whichever service you require, we will begin with a MIAM for you. After that, I will contact the other participant and invite them to their own MIAM.
If the case is suitable, and if both participants are willing, we will have a series of joint mediation sessions. These sessions will cover child arrangements and/or property & finance. How many sessions you need will depend on what issues there are and what progress we make.
When mediation concludes, I will draw up either a Memorandum of Understanding or a Parenting Plan, as appropriate.
You will have an opportunity to reflect upon the process and offer your feedback to me.
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Get in touch
If you think mediation might be for you, start the conversation by sending me an email. I look forward to hearing from you.
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adv. & n. /ˈəʊvəˌmɒrəʊ/ — the day after tomorrow.
Mediation is not about the past. It looks to the future — not just tomorrow, but the day after that, and all the days that follow.