About the Author
John E Hind is the Founder and Director of Compass Resolution Ltd, a UK national Mediation organisation offering family and business mediation and conflict management coaching services.
He also founded the Family Mediation Team UK, the first multi-disciplinary Family Mediation national organisation specialising in a ‘Hybrid’ model of Family Mediation involving solicitors, financial and children experts alongside and inside the mediation process.
John has been a Mediator (Family and Civil) for over 23 years helping and supporting 1000’s of his clients to reach their own agreements and avoid court in a wide range and variety of conflictual situations. He is also a Neuro Linguistic Practitioner.
Following a brief career in the British Army John practiced as a Solicitor for over 25 years, running his own legal Practice offering the collaborative practice option before deciding to exclusively mediate in 2010 when he set up Compass Resolution Ltd, an organisation completely committed to helping their clients reach their own agreements and avoid court.
He was among the first Solicitors in the United Kingdom to be trained as a Collaborative practitioner specialising in working with other solicitors and their clients to achieve out of court settlements.
He and his Company have trained hundreds of professionals and members of the public in mediation and conflict resolution skills running a range of Conflict Resolution skills courses and programmes.
John has written extensively online in all matters conflict resolution related. This Manual represents a continuation of his commitment to mediation in the context of separation and Divorce.
He lives in Exeter, Devon, UK
Dedication
To Henry Brown who trained me as a mediator in 1997 and showed me the path and more enlightened way to practice.
Acknowledgements
I am very grateful to those who originally trained me as a mediator including Henry Brown and Helen Howard (Garlick) and those who have been particularly influential during my journey as a Conflict Resolution specialist, including Monika Cockett and Angela Lake-Carroll.
Also, thank you to my family for their patience during all the hours I have spent writing and constructing this multi-media Divorce Manual, videos and guides. I love you all very much.
Thank you to my good friend Ollie Pearson of Design the New Ltd and his team for their help and support with ‘bringing this Manual to market’ in a way that we hope most of our readers find helpful. Your feedback is always most welcome.
Above all, thank you to all the inspirational clients I have worked with, those who grabbed the opportunity mediation offered and, through their focus and commitment, made it work for them. These are the people I continue to learn so much from, my inspiration, the people who have and continue to make my conflict resolution work and passion so worthwhile.