How does the divorce mediation process affect the participants afterwards?

How does the divorce mediation process affect the participants afterwards?

People that go through divorce mediation generally end up with, if there's such a thing as a better divorce, they'll get it in an ADR, whether its collaboritive or mediation, so typically people are affected positively by divorce mediation and typically they walk away from the process at the end feeling more complete, more whole, less violated. Certainly there's a lot less confrontation. Essentially though, the difference in the end of the mediation and the end of the collaborative process is at the end of the collaborative process they've had coaches and they walk away from that process with better communication skills, better tools, more tools to work with as they continue in life as parents and as former spouses. Other than that, they typically, the experience in both processes is the same.