COnce again confirmed, from 2018 and for the next two years, the presence of an information space dedicated to family mediation at Court of Milanto offer to families who are facing a separation a safe and free place where you can find listening and guidance. The goal is to accompany parents on this painful journey, so that their children are not the ones who suffer. We talked about it with the Professor Chiara Vendraminiclinical psychologist, family mediator, President ofGeA Parents Association Ancòra.
Separation without conflicts: why family mediation is needed
Separating after cohabitation, marriage and the birth of children always implies a period of suffering for all family members. THE conflicts I am often inevitable, with variable intensity from case to case, but it is necessary find a way not to involve children in adult matters. And get help from experts trained to best manage the most delicate situations.
Since 2018 a memorandum of understanding to reach as many families as possible
That’s why in April In 2018, an Information Space on family mediation was activated at the Court of Milanwith the aim “of correctly informing on the characteristics of this intervention and therefore offering parents, legal professionals, service operators, consultants, all citizens, the possibility of considering a path aimed at the well-being of minors involved in the separative conflict”.
This is what is stated in the Memorandum of Understanding that binds the promoters of this service: the Ordinary Court of Milan, the Milan Bar Association, the Municipality of Milan – GeA Irene Bernardini Centerthe CMCmf (Milanese Coordination of Family Mediation Centers).
A free information space dedicated to family mediation
The objective of the initiative is support and reach as many parents as possible to prevent ed avoid the chronicity of conflict situations And protect childhood. A work that has continued at full speed since its inauguration in 2018.
«We were only closed for the Covid period, then we resumed our activities at full speed. The peak of accesses it is mainly linked to the summertime or pre-Christmas and pre-holiday. Often families are unable to find agreements for the management of their children during the holidays or for the arrival of a new partner”, continues the expert.
“We have a good number of parents and lawyers, they can also contact us to ask if the situation can be mediated.”
INFO: the space is located within the Civil Section IX of the Court of Milan via San Barnaba 50, Milan. For further information you can contact GeA Parents Association Ancóra ETS Viale Monte Santo 1/3, 20124 Milan Tel 02.29.00.47.57 email [email protected]; website associazionegea.it.
A first contact for families inside the Milan Court
«In this space we alternate 12 volunteers every Tuesday. We represent a first contact for families with respect to family mediation, there is a mediator who welcomes and informs. Parents who are in the course of a hearing or at the end of the hearing often arrive at our door, sometimes sent by the judges, to receive information about mediation, and understand how it can be useful for their situation. We have one mapping of public centersprivate and accredited throughout Milan and its surroundings and we provide parents with the contacts they can contact to then be followed up”, explains Chiara Vendramini. According to the data collected and processed by GeA experts, around 61% of parents with children aged around 7/13 years and 56% lawyers turn to family mediation centres.
What is GeA, Parents Anchor
«In 1987, by founding the GeA Genitori Ancora Association, we began working on a project full of utopia: addressing conflicts, in particular family conflicts, not only as destructive events but also as opportunities for growth and transformation of relationships”, explains the Professor Fulvio Scaparropsychotherapist and writer, founder of GeA.
«Helping separating parents a regain confidencehope, ability to understand and mutual recognition. Spread a culture of mediation from which very useful results can derive not only for individuals but for the entire community in terms of pacification of relationships social and trust in personal and community resources.
Over the years we have found many traveling companions endowed with courage, optimism and a profound awareness that in the school as in the family, in the company as in institutionsis felt more and more need for mediators to help the parties negotiateto look further ahead than a possible immediate victory, a seek alternative solutions to the conflict frontal”, concludes Scaparro.
The first Italian family mediation training school
In 1989 the Association GeA Parents Ancóra ETS he created the first Italian family mediation training school for public and private operators and in over 37 years of activity it has trained hundreds of family mediators who have made specific expertise, listening and support available to parents to deal with the complexity of the situation in which they find themselves.
How does GeA help parents?
«Through his interventions, the GeA Genitori Ancóra ETS Association makes its decades of experience available to parents and others through interventions of:
- family mediation for the parental couplea path (10-12 meetings) for the reorganization of family relationships in view of or following separation or divorce
- parenting supportsome individual or group meetings in which the separated parent is helped to reflect and find effective strategies in the relationship with the children and with the other parent
- comparison groups for separated parents aimed at the single parent who wants discussion and help from people with whom he shares the experience of separation
- support for new partners and grandparents to discuss issues related to their role in reorganization of family relationships
- support for the parental couple to understand and manage communication difficulties in order to support them in their common parenting task
- discussion and support groups for grandparents and new partners to share emotions and exchange information and strategies on the concrete aspects of daily life and the care of children and adolescents after the separation event”, concludes Professor Chiara Vendramini.
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