Mediation Services in Colorado Springs & Cascade, CO

Here at Conflict Solutions of Southern Colorado, we practice Collaborative Facilitative Interest-Based Mediation.

We practice interest-based mediation, and that distinction matters. Most disputes get stuck because each side walks in with a position — what they're demanding — and the conversation turns into a tug-of-war over those positions. We don't split the difference. Instead, we work to surface what each party actually needs underneath the demand: the security, the respect, the protection of a relationship, the practical outcome that has to hold up six months from now. When agreements are built on those real interests rather than on a forced compromise, they last — because everyone leaves with something they actually want to keep, not something they settled for.

The framework we're trained in is Collaborative Facilitative Interest-Based Mediation, developed by Monica Lichtenberger in Rising Above. But the experience is simpler than the name: a process where you feel heard, where you stay in control of the outcome, and where the agreement at the end is one that holds.