Mediation
Wealth Integration: Bridging the Gap Between Family Wealth, Relationships, Identity and Purpose
Learn how wealth integration helps families align financial wealth with identity, relationships and purpose across generations for healthier decisions and stronger family connection.
Why Your Family Meetings Aren’t Working
Many family meetings fall short because they ignore deeper, systemic conflict. Learn why that happens and how to make your meetings more effective.
Dispute Mediation vs. Conflict Management: What’s the Difference?
What's the difference? Conflict is inevitable in any family enterprise. But when tensions arise, the way families approach conflict can make the difference between destructive outcomes and transformational growth. Too often, families and their advisors assume that dispute resolution approaches, such as mediation, are the natural path forward. But in our work with enterprising families, however, we’ve found that mediating simple disputes and managing the kind of conflict that happens in family enterprise are two very different things. Understanding the distinction is critical. At Continuity, we specialize in helping enterprising families manage systemic, identity-based conflict. This is the kind [...]
Recognizing Passive Conflict in Enterprising Families
7 Ways Passive Conflict Threatens Family Cohesion In family systems where wealth, legacy, and decision-making are intertwined, tension doesn’t always speak loudly. It often has an insidious quality, showing up in patterns that are easy to overlook or explain away, but its seeming negligibility makes it that much more of a threat to family dynamics. Just because something is difficult to name doesn’t mean it isn’t shaping the room. We call this “Passive Conflict”. Families can operate for years with unresolved dynamics humming beneath the surface. Sometimes the stakes are too high to risk open conflict. Other times, past [...]
Marital Mediation May Just Save the Marriage━and the Family Enterprise
A guide to what marital mediation is, isn’t, and how it can be effectiveOne of the biggest threats to a family enterprise, especially in its first and second generations, is divorce. With the value of a business concentrated among a few stakeholders, the liquidity demanded in a separation of marital assets can cripple a company and compromise succession. With so much at stake for a family enterprise, unhappily married couples must explore all options to improve their marriage before deciding to divorce.Marital mediation is broadly defined as negotiating ways to sustain a marriage. Many couples have expressed that if they [...]
