About your mediator
Annika Bosanquet
Family Mediator (Working Towards Accreditation under PPC)
I became a family mediator because I believe that how a family navigates separation matters as much as what they decide. I believe that personal Interests and Needs are a critical part of creating choice in separation which creates a more likelihood of resolution over conflict and trauma, if left to the court to decide.
Relationships break down for many reasons, life takes over and it is sad, disappointing but for others, a relief. The pace and experience of a breakdown will likely be felt very differently between two people which can cause lasting trauma if ignored. The agreements you reach in your Mediation sessions will affect your lives forever, and also your children's lives, for years to come. Why let someone you have never met before, in a courtroom, at huge emotional and financial cost decide for you? Surely you owe yourself - and others near and dear to you - a process that respects your past and your future, albeit you are in the “here and now”.
My background has given me a genuine understanding of how complicated family life can be: people deal with health and career challenges, bereavement, neurodiverse family members, complex business assets and liabilities, benefits and low income as well as past trauma and systemic family issues. Single events can build up over a period of time until a relationship could no longer withstand the pressures and thus collapses. I bring that understanding and listening into every session. I trained with the National Family Mediation council and am a trained volunteer with a national mental health charity.
I am also a trained Divorce and Separation Coach. For those individuals - not couples - considering the pre and post journey of separation, I offer this service also.
Note: due to impartiality, the service cannot be offered to those couples who engage me in Mediation so I refer onto certified colleagues.
Mediation is Voluntary, Impartial, Confidential (unless safeguarding or criminality is highlighted) and Self Determining.
You both are in control. My job is to create a safe space for you to explore options and conclude the end of your relationship with a workable Memorandum of Understanding to allow you both - and your children - to detangle and build new futures.
Acceptance
“At last we feel that we have explored and arrived with a financial future plan that we can both accept. Mediation started with trepidation, but Annika knows her way around the law and helped us develop our own choices that works best for us and our children”.
Simple ideas
“Space was made in our mediation sessions so we could focus on staying true to our values, building boundaries yet creating solutions together for thoughtful, lasting co-parenting relationship.”
Lasting impact
“Through mediation, Sasha and I have developed financial solutions to create an MOU that is legally acceptable and personally acceptable for us both. This mediation has saved us thousands of pounds of legal fees and helps us to move on. Thank you.”