Are you in a conflict with a coworker, neighbor or relative? Are you getting divorced and want to make it easier on your children? Mediation Works can help you make peace with that noisy neighbor, or impossible co-worker. Mediation Works will help you preserve relationships while you resolve conflict.  Mediation Works will help you through the often overwhelming divorce process,  one step at a time.  Mediation is an opportunity to have a different kind of conversation.  It is a confidential process where you sit down with a neutral person, who guides you through a step-by-step process. First you and the other party will each explain the problem as you see it. The mediator lists issues that need to be discussed, brainstorm solutions, and negotiate agreements. I insure fairness and make sure everyone gets heard. Even through intense emotions, I work to keep both parties focused, respectful, and moving towards a resolution. At Mediation Works, I use the facilitative model of mediation, giving you the most control over the process and outcome. I will never know as much as you about your situation, so will never offer advice or push you toward a solution. Mediation is completely voluntary and you may stop at any time for any reason, or for no reason at all. It is much faster and cheaper than trying to solve a conflict in court—and you have the greatest control over the process and outcome. Linda Gryczan     Mediator My goal is to bridge differences and facilitate understanding, by offering people an opportunity to hear and be heard. to help people resolve the issue at hand, and develop a framework for solving future disagreements. to use mediation as a tool to preserve relationships, find enduring solutions, and help people move forward in their lives.   I work towards a world where children of divorce have parents who get along, where disputing neighbors resolve conflicts amicably, and where offenders meet with those they have harmed to make things right. Located at 314 N. Last Chance Gulch in Helena, Montana, I rent office space in other cities, so I can be available at a time and place convenient to you.  I also mediate through video conferencing and perform on line negotiations so that people can resolve their conflicts across the miles.   Contact Mediation Works to help bring peace to your home, workplace and neighborhood. (406) 431-3635 or e-mail at info@mediationworks.tv The olive branch is used in the Mediation Works logo as a symbol of peace, a tradition that has been with us since ancient Greece.  The gods had a contest on whose gift would be most useful to humankind and Athena won when she presented the olive tree.  She was a planner, a diplomat and a mediator, working to keep the peace in many stories of antiquity.  Since then, we mortals have offered an olive branch to an adversary to signify a truce.