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Prior to the mediation, we provide clients with a list of topics to consider and documents to assemble, to help them meaningfully prepare for our work together. (These inform the parties of financial data required to be disclosed by Colorado divorce law.) In parties only mediations, we meet around a round table with both parties. Typically, we spend more time in a first session on the rules of our mediation process, since process is key in these mediations. We typically next invite both parties to share a brief history, present circumstances and divorce concerns. We usually find helpful asking some open-ended questions that may provide lots of insight into their dynamics (Understanding your view might be quite different than your spouse, how is it that you find yourselves separating your lives at this point?) and relative preparedness, emotionally or otherwise, for the mediation. Using a Powerpoint presentation and a large flat-panel television video monitor or just a flipchart, we out
