Davis Mediation - Divorce Mediation

05/18/2024

SCAM ALERT - Recently I've been getting calls from all over the US from people that have been contacted by scammers that are using the name of Davis Mediation and trying to scam money out of elderly and disabled clients saying that they are responsible for a debt or a payment in a civil suit or any number of other explanations. THIS IS NOTHING BUT A SCAM AND IT IS IN NO WAY RELATED TO DAVIS MEDIATION. DAVIS MEDIATION IS A ONE PERSON MEDIATION PRACTICE THAT DEALS EXCLUSIVELY WITH DIVORCE AND PARENTING ISSUES AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH DEBT COLLECTION, LITIGATION OR ANYTHING ELSE SO PLEASE DO NOT EVEN RETURN THESE SCAMMERS CALLS.

01/22/2024

BOOKS & WEBSITES FOR A CHILD-FOCUSED DIVORCE - This video provides numerous helpful resources to help minimize the impact of divorce on children. The parental resources help parents keep their focus on their children’s well-being and suggest ways to help them support their children during this transition. The children’s resources explain the divorce process in language they can understand and provide ways to deal with the uncertainty that they’re experiencing.
If any of your clients could use help navigating their divorce, please feel free to have them check out my website at www.DavisMediation.com.

09/07/2023

SOUTH BAY THERAPIST PARTY – Our next big party will be from 4 - 7 PM on Fri, Sept 29 at Tower 12 Restaurant (53 Pier Ave, Hermosa Beach) at the Hermosa Beach Pier. This is a casual get-together of therapists to socialize, get out of our offices and celebrate/commiserate the incredible work that you all do! Those of you who joined us previously know what a good time we have at these casual, but very lively get-togethers so come join us for free appetizers and lots of warm South Bay hospitality. No need to RSVP, just show up and have fun.
If there are others you would like to invite, feel free to let them know - the more therapists the better! We have the entire Jungle Room just like last time so there's room for everyone. https://www.facebook.com/groups/southbaycommunity/permalink/3457246547823163/
As a THANK YOU to all my therapist friends & colleagues, Davis Mediation will be picking up the tab for all the appetizers - all you need to cover are your drinks (there will be a cash basket and my Venmo is barrydavis22).

04/16/2023

We had an absolutely incredible trip to Nepal including a week of wild whitewater rafting in a remote region and spending lots of time with the girls & boys from the two children’s homes. Thanks to many of you, we raised $5000 towards school fees (which covers 2 years of school fees for the smaller orphanage of 18 kids) and took 270 pounds of donated clothes! It was wonderful spending time with all of these children - my family even took 9 of the girls from the English-speaking children’s home on a mini-holiday (2 days/1 night) to the foothills outside Kathmandu and had a wonderful time hiking, playing games and getting to know these girls better. They are all such strong, confident girls and young ladies at this point that you forget that they came from the untouchable caste and were formally orphans (none of them are orphans now because they are part of one big family). Then we celebrated Easter Sunday with these Christian sisters & brothers - pretty incredible that we can be on the opposite side of the world and share such joyful times with those that we have come to look at as family!

03/19/2023

We finally finished packing all of the clothes that everyone donated packed up. Thanks to generous folks throughout the South Bay, we will be taking 260 lbs of donated clothing to the two orphanages in Kathmandu. That's in addition to the $4,600 ($2600 donated on GoFundMe + our $2,000 matching) for school fees for the next 2 years. Thank you to everyone that graciously contributed towards school fees and donated clothes!

02/23/2023

We're halfway to our goal of $3000 for school fees for our orphan friends in Nepal. My family will be matching the first $2000 so anything you give is doubled up to this point (if we can get to $4000 total that will pay the school fees for 20 children for one year!).
We're hoping to help them out with school fees (one of the orphanage’s funding in the US dropped significantly during COVID & they’re having trouble covering the children’s school fees) as well as a couple tablets for schoolwork & lots of secondhand clothing. We would love your support if you feel so moved, but would also simply appreciate you sharing our funding page (https://gofund.me/283d0354) with your network of friends, family and co-workers.
And if you’re in the South Bay and have some clothes that your kids have grown out of please PM me so we can coordinate drop-off/pickup as we are planning on taking 4 – 6 duffel bags full of clothes (since only 10 out of the 52 children are boys, we mostly need girls clothes). We could use clothes for the following:
- Girls ages 5 – 18
- Boys ages 7 – 14
Thank you so much for any help that you can provide!

02/09/2023

My wife, our girls and I will be headed to Nepal at the end of March to visit the two orphanages that we help support in Kathmandu. Many of you have heard me tell stories about these wonderful children, especially the girls at the all-girls home where we’ve been involved since 2003, and how much we’ve enjoyed spending time with them on our visits to Kathmandu (the first time we met many of these girls was in 2003 - 20 years ago). It’s incredible to think that some of these ‘girls’ are now full-grown women and impacting their communities in such a positive way (both Prasanna and Alisha are nurses & spent months working in COVID ICUs during the pandemic often with limited PPE – after Alisha got COVID herself she was back at work the very next day after they cleared her)! And even more incredible when you consider that several of these girls were literally left out in the forest to die when one or both of their parents passed away - then the woman that they call ‘Oma’ (the German woman who has been the driving force behind funding and organizing the orphanage) swooped in to rescue these girls.
We want to help them out with school fees (one of the orphanage’s funding in the US dropped significantly during COVID & they’re having trouble covering the children’s school fees) as well as a couple tablets for schoolwork & lots of secondhand clothing. We would love your support if you feel so moved, but would also simply appreciate you sharing our funding page (https://gofund.me/283d0354 )with your network of friends, family and co-workers.
And if you’re in the South Bay and have some clothes that your kids have grown out of please PM me so we can coordinate drop-off/pickup as we are planning on taking 4 – 6 duffel bags full of clothes (since only 10 out of the 52 children are boys, we mostly need girls clothes). We could use clothes for the following:
- Girls ages 5 – 18
- Boys ages 7 – 14
Thank you so much for any help that you can provide!

11/11/2022

I just want to say a big THANK YOU to all our veterans! No matter what your position is on war, whether you’re a Republican or Democrat, a liberal or conservative, we all benefit from their sacrifice and live a life of unparalleled freedom based on their bravery and willingness to put their lives on the line! GOD BLESS EACH & EVERY ONE OF YOU!!!

04/08/2022

There are so many reasons that we need to continue to ACTIVELY SUPPORT THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE, but here are two of the most important ones:
1. THEY ARE INNOCENT IN ALL OF THIS - contrary to Russian lies and propaganda, the Ukrainian people did not do anything to provoke this horrendous act of aggression & yet civilians, women and children, are suffering so egregiously. CNN interviewed a woman in Mariupol who had only been out of her basement bunker two times in 28 days because she had heard about so many Russian soldiers ra**ng any Ukrainian woman that they found. Children and teens have seen their parents die in front of their eyes as they are trying to protect them or get them to safety in western Ukraine. Someone has to stand up to this evil so that we at least limit the number of innocents that continue to be killed!
2. THIS IS THE FIGHT OF OUR LIFETIME - Putin has been bullying and attacking other sovereign nations with relative impunity for decades now and if he is not firmly and completely stopped in Ukraine he will continue to do so. Additionally, China is absolutely looking at this situation to determine how the West will respond if they choose to invade Taiwan. This isn’t just some fight in a faraway land - this is the fight that will determine the trajectory of democratic nations and freedom versus autocracy for decades to come.
ALL OF US need to do everything we can through giving to organizations that are helping the Ukrainian people, writing our US senators & congress members and anything else can be helpful. We need to take the stand not only because these people so deserve our help, but because we are taking a stand that evil aggression and pure greed/ego can not and will not prevail so that our children and our grandchildren don’t grow up in a world where autocracy, oppression & false propaganda rule the day!

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03/03/2022

RESOURCES FOR CHILD-FOCUSED DIVORCES - The right resources make all the difference for parents & children struggling with divorce. Below are websites, videos, books & handouts that help parents keep their focus on their children and minimize conflict overall. Please feel free to share these with your clients as appropriate:
Sesame Street Divorce Toolkit for young children - https://sesamestreetincommunities.org/topics/divorce/
List of books, websites & handouts for parents & children - https://davismediation.com/divorce-resources/
Divorce YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/c/barrydavisdivorcemediation
www.UpToParents.org - Interactive website to help parents focus on their children
Telling the Children Handout -https://davismediation.com/downloads/Telling-the-Children.pdf

03/22/2020

We all know this is going to be a tough time for low income folks and one of the best ways we can help those in need is to make sure that they have access to food. The Westside Food Bank (www.westsidefoodbankca.org/) provides food to 70 member-agencies that are on the front lines of helping both low income and homeless throughout Los Angeles. By contributing you are helping fill food pantries in many local agencies so that those who truly need food will get it.

I’m going to match every dollar donated up to $1000 so together we have a chance to contribute $2000. Because they buy in bulk and have ongoing relationships with food providers, this $2000 will go a very long way to help those in need. Please join me by donating today.

Monica, the girls & I have worked with and supported the Westside Food Bank for over a decade - putting together Thanksgiving baskets, delivering food to low-income folks and walking in their walk-a-thon.

And they're continuing to help those in need during these difficult times - "We will continue to provide food for people in need, but changing circumstances have increased operating costs as we keep up our essential service."

10/04/2019

Unfortunately, some divorcing couples still think it would be better/easier to have a judge make decisions for them. The below article shows why leaving one's fate up to another flawed human being with almost absolute power is a VERY BAD idea - it reads "A federal judge in Kansas has been publicly reprimanded for sexually harassing court employees, having an extramarital relationship with a convicted felon on probation and being late for court engagements." And this is a FEDERAL judge - someone appointed at a much higher level than a family court judge! Avoid this mess, keep your kids out of the middle and retain your savings by working with a qualified divorce mediator instead. www.DavisMediation.com
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/federal-judge-reprimanded-for-very-serious-long-term-misbehavior-involving-employees-and-felon?utm_source=salesforce_112033&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=salesforce_112033&sc_sid=01242985&utm_campaign=&promo=&utm_content=&additional4=&additional5=&sfmc_j=112033&sfmc_s=52245067&sfmc_l=1527&sfmc_jb=308&sfmc_mid=100027443&sfmc_u=4376031

A federal judge in Kansas has been publicly reprimanded for sexually harassing court employees, having an extramarital relationship with a convicted felon on probation and being late for court engagements.