What We DoMEDIATION

Cori believes that listening, communication, and creative problem solving are the keys to dispute resolution.  After spending years in the courtroom, Cori realized a fundamental truth: clients felt better about the outcome when they had a hand in deciding it. She realized that those cases that settled in mediation resulted in the clients feeling more successful and her personal stress level decreasing.  It seemed that mediation was a viable alternative to the courtroom. Thus she embarked on her journey of becoming a mediator.

Her first stop was learning about emotions and the body’s reactions to stress and fear.  Through her work with the Community for Personal Development, Cori developed an thorough understanding of our body and brain’s ability to navigate outcomes and also where and how we as humans get stuck in self-destructive patterns.  She learned tools, which help her see to the heart of the dispute, speak to those difficult issues, and help people reach a resolution that feels safe and doable to all involved.

Next, she trained under Professor Bobby Harges at Loyola Law School on how to specifically mediate Louisiana family law cases.  Throughout the intensive workshop, Cori was again and again put through the paces of how to respectfully and calmly navigate and guide families through the dispute resolution process.

Cori believes that the healthier a family is … the better each part of that family is.  It is her desire to help families, during a time of great stress and conflict, to create solutions that work for each of them… solutions that help each member of that family move out of conflict and into a healthy and happy life.