About Talk the Talk Mediation
Talk the Talk Mediation offers mediation and dispute resolution services to any person or organisation, large or small, private or government where conflicts arise.
Margot Foster AM, the principal of Talk the Talk Mediation has experienced all manner of disputes during her 34 years as a lawyer in private practice. She knows how damaging, debilitating and expensive litigation can be. She also knows that the alternative, not always initially preferred by parties in dispute, of sitting down and at least attempting to end the argument, resolve the complaint and get on with a life still to be lived, can be very worthwhile.
Relationships often need to be maintained in some form beyond the resolution of the dispute which can be easier when there hasn’t been a face-off in court. Equally a mediated outcome is one that can be controlled in a much greater way than a court imposed one where the parties surrender all power for a decision to a judge.
Margot has been involved in numerous court-ordered mediations in both family law and civil dispute matters. She has also served on disciplinary, selection and anti-doping tribunals for a number of state and national sports organisations. In addition she has been involved in investigations of disputes leading to measures taken to conclude those disputes.
People might disagree and then agree to disagree and move on with their lives because they can. Or they may not. If not then disagreement may morph into a full blown conflict where one or both parties digs in and says my way or the highway.
When conflict arises it may often be due to an imbalance of position, status, confidence, views of self and views of the other. These perceived or actual features can impede any prospect of a successful resolution of the dispute leading to the following options
- Give up; pack the bags, go home unhappy
- Keep the argument alive ensuring the relationship will end in tatters
- Fight in court with all the attendant stressors, dramas and costs with no control over the outcome.
Talk the Talk Mediation’s mediation and dispute resolution services to any number of organisations and industries whether it be a family law matter, a workplace dispute, community organisations and to a war of words, or worse, between officials in sports or other organisations.