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We offer telephone consultation and on-site conflict
counseling and mediation services for individuals, families,
businesses, churches, schools, camps, missions and denominations.
We also provide conflict consultations and interventions
for organizations.
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Our Reconciliation Services Help You?
When is an offense too serious
to overlook?
An offense (as perceived by any of the parties) is too serious
to overlook when you can answer “yes” to any
of the following questions:
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Is
the offense seriously dishonoring God? (Does the dispute
reflect dishonor upon the Lord to those inside or outside
the business or families involved, the church or the watching
neighborhood and community?)
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Has
the offense permanently damaged a relationship? (Are
the parties unable to enjoy each other’s presence
as before?)
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Is
the offense seriously hurting other people? (Is it
hindering interpersonal relationships with others in your
family, school, business, church, organization or community?)
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Is
the offense seriously hurting the offender him/herself?
(For example, interference in relationships with other
persons, difficulty in seeing how he/she could grow in
his life from this problem, cooling of personal relationship
with the Lord, sleeplessness, discouragement, bitterness,
etc.).
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Benefits of reconciliation services for you and your organization:
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Find
mutually agreeable solutions for all the parties in the
dispute.
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Honor
God by doing what is right and just.
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Grow
personally in your own lives.
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Serve others (including the other parties in the dispute).
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Promote
genuine forgiveness and relief from bitterness.
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Encourage
relational reconciliation wherever possible and appropriate.
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Restore
the unity and teamwork of the organization involved.
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Restore
your Christian witness to your watching community.
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Promote
organizational health and prevent future conflict.
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Our training and experience
in reconciliation ministry
Ted and Ruth Brewer have received extensive training with
Peacemaker Ministries in Christian conciliation. Ted also
has received mediation training approved by the Academy of
Family Mediators and negotiation training with the Woodstock
Institute for Negotiation. The Brewers are actively involved
with Peacemaker Ministries and are members of the New Hampshire
Mediators Association. They have several years of experience
in mediating various types of disputes.
Commitment to confidentiality
We will carefully guard the information you entrust to us.
We ask the parties to agree not to discuss our communications
with people who do not have a necessary interest in the conciliation
process. We offer further elaboration of these principles
on confidentiality before we serve you.
What services do we offer?
Individual conflict counseling
and coaching
We provide conflict counseling and written resources to help
individuals explore ways they can resolve disputes personally
and privately. We also counsel and coach leaders to help them
assist parties to come to agreement. If your personal efforts
to resolve differences with others are not successful, we can
help you and the other parties explore the benefits of mediation
and assist you to come to the table to work out your differences.
Mediation
Christian mediation is the use of an impartial person or persons
who follow biblical principles to help people make informed
decisions and develop mutually acceptable agreements to resolve
their dispute within a confidential setting. If personal efforts
by individuals, even with assistance of Christian friends
or church leaders have not been successful in resolving the
dispute, we can provide mediation to help the parties come
to a voluntary settlement of their differences. Mediation
involves such steps as:
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Contact
by the parties with the mediator(s) to consider the value
and process of mediation.
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Preparation
by the parties.
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Meetings
of the parites together with the help of the mediator(s).
There may be several meetings over a period of days or
weeks.
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Agreement
on solutions wherever possible.
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Follow-through on agreements with assistance from the
mediator(s).
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Organizational conflict interventions
When a conflict has escalated beyond individual disputes to
involve an organization (extended family, school, business,
church, groups of churches, mission board) the Brewers are trained
and experienced in providing conflict interventions. This involves
such steps as the following:
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Initial
contacts and presentation of our services.
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Development
and presentation of a proposal for organizational peacemaking.
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Presentation
of the proposal and decision by the leaders and/or organization
to proceed.
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Fact finding interviews with individuals and groups.
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Mediation
of key interpersonal disputes.
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Identification
of individuals in the organization who could receive training
for future peacemaking.
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Organizational
analysis.
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Presentation
of verbal and written report with diagnosis and recommendations
-- first to the key leader(s), then the leadership as
a whole, then the organization, if appropriate.
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Assistance
in developing a plan to resolve the disputes, restore
organizational health and promote training and deployment
of peacemakers from within the organization.
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Ongoing
consultation to help implement the plan.
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New
Peace Network
24 Maywood Drive,
Nashua, NH 03064
603. 880. 1799
renewal@newpeace.net
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