Dispute resolution
Family mediation
Dr Amanda Shea Hart is a highly experienced, accredited family dispute resolution practitioner who provides mediation before or after separation, and at any stage in court proceedings.
She can help you with:
Amanda has vast experience as a mediator in senior and management positions and as a skills trainer for a range of professionals and organisations. She introduced Child Inclusive Practice (CIP) to Australia and is very committed to centralising children’s needs in family mediation.
Amanda has extensive experience working with children of all ages, and specialises in infants and young children.
Collaborative practice
Dr Amanda Shea Hart is an experienced and accredited collaborative practitioner who can help you with:
Collaborative practice is a powerful and effective approach that reaches sustainable solutions and avoids the battle scars of litigation.
As the child and family specialist, Amanda works together with lawyers and both clients in a multidisciplinary approach to dispute resolution for separated families. She utilises her expertise to facilitate
This holistic approach centralises the needs of the child and each parent by:
Amanda helped facilitate the introduction of collaborative practice to South Australia. She is a member of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals’ Australian and South East Asian Committee developing this practice across this region.
Workplace mediation
Dr Amanda Shea Hart is a qualified mediator with experience in resolving workplace disputes for:
Amanda has vast experience in senior and management positions, and as a skills trainer in dispute resolution for professionals and organisations. She draws on her knowledge and experience in successfully working together with those in dispute to find mutually beneficial and sustainable solutions.
Dr Amanda Shea Hart is a highly experienced, accredited family dispute resolution practitioner who provides mediation before or after separation, and at any stage in court proceedings.
She can help you with:
- parenting plans – child’s living arrangements and parent's time spent with the child
- communication
- joint decision making
- complex issues, including entrenched conflict and violence or abuse
- children’s problems adjusting to living arrangements
- grandparents’ or other relatives’ time with the child
- introduction of new partner or blended family
- relocation.
Amanda has vast experience as a mediator in senior and management positions and as a skills trainer for a range of professionals and organisations. She introduced Child Inclusive Practice (CIP) to Australia and is very committed to centralising children’s needs in family mediation.
Amanda has extensive experience working with children of all ages, and specialises in infants and young children.
Collaborative practice
Dr Amanda Shea Hart is an experienced and accredited collaborative practitioner who can help you with:
- disputes over parenting and/or property
- child adjustment and best interests
- communication and co-operative parenting
- individual client stress management and coping capacity.
Collaborative practice is a powerful and effective approach that reaches sustainable solutions and avoids the battle scars of litigation.
As the child and family specialist, Amanda works together with lawyers and both clients in a multidisciplinary approach to dispute resolution for separated families. She utilises her expertise to facilitate
- respectful communication
- mutual goals
- creative sustainable child-focused solutions.
This holistic approach centralises the needs of the child and each parent by:
- utilising child-inclusive practice
- support and guidance for each parent as needed
- consultation with, and referral to, other professionals as appropriate.
Amanda helped facilitate the introduction of collaborative practice to South Australia. She is a member of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals’ Australian and South East Asian Committee developing this practice across this region.
Workplace mediation
Dr Amanda Shea Hart is a qualified mediator with experience in resolving workplace disputes for:
- relationship and communication issues
- conflicting values, goals and beliefs
- conduct and performance issues
- parent-teacher disputes
- work colleagues disputes
- manager-staff disputes.
Amanda has vast experience in senior and management positions, and as a skills trainer in dispute resolution for professionals and organisations. She draws on her knowledge and experience in successfully working together with those in dispute to find mutually beneficial and sustainable solutions.