Transcendent Life Services, LLC
8480 Honeycutt Road
Suite 200
Raleigh, NC 27615
At the table
~ Help you to hear each other
~ Help you to feel heard
~ Facilitate conversation and negotiation
~ Explore both of your needs
~ Encourage creativity
~ Balance power and knowledge
~ Develop, weigh, and compare options
~ Articulate options
~ Discuss implementation
~ Appropriate drafting
~ Ongoing implementation mediation if needed / requested
Qualities of Divorce Mediation
~ Collaborative
Participants work together creating their solutions with the mediator as a guide and a recorder
~ Confidential
The law encourages communication by ensuring the substance of negotiations cannot be shared in open court
~ Fair
All parties are held to the same standards of full-disclosure and good faith negotiations
~ Impartial and Safe
The mediator has equal responsibility to all parties involved and favors no one side
~ Informed
The process hinges on participants obtaining the necessary information to make decisions
~ Self-Responsible, Satisfying, and Creative
Participants create their agreement together which lends to satisfaction with the product of negotiations
~ Voluntary
Any party can leave at any time for any reason


~ Introductions / Free Consultation, & Agreement to Mediate
~ Identification of points of agreement and prioritization of open issues
~ Development of needed information and documentation
~ Focused discussion on interests and desired outcomes
~ Resolution of open issues through listening, brainstorming, mutually acceptable objective standards of fairness and/or expert opinion
~ Drafting, enhancement, and processing of agreement
Phases of Mediation

Alternative Divorce Process
We utilize a systematic approach that leads you to the full and complete agreement that you need in order to settle all items that need to be addressed before your divorce is final.
We show what needs to be decided on and the both of you make the decisions that are right for you.