Petra Beishuizen

Attorney at law/mediator/partner

Expertise

Petra has 25 years of experience in counseling people in divorce. In addition, she has focused on Business Mediation in recent years. She advises entrepreneurs and liberal professionals in settling their more complex financial and legal matters. Her role is coaching and facilitating. She restores connections and offers people new paths to solutions. The conflict may be a dispute within the family business, a partnership dispute or internal dispute within the organization's boardroom.

Intervision & Empowerment

As a mediator/coach, she has extensive experience with communication and relational problems. Every group has its own dynamics within the system in which they function and have to work together. Especially in the management of a company it is important that there is mutual space and respect. Petra is an intervision supervisor of professionals in which intervision techniques are used to look deeper into the individual interests of people behind the issue. She also gives training courses “Intervision facilitator” and guides intervision groups through Teams or in the office. Professional Coaching can be requested on an individual basis.

Her approach

She uses an integrative holistic approach, which means that the whole problem is looked at and not just the legal part, that there is an eye for the whole person with all his emotions and experiences in relation to the conflict at hand. She pays attention to the cohesion and undercurrents between the persons involved in the group, the system within which work or life is being done.

Merienke (M.M.) Zwaan-Stroband

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Education

  • EFT for Mediators, Foundation EFT Netherlands, 2020
  • VFas Mediation and Matrimonial Property Law, 2000
  • University of Utrecht, 1994
  • Collaborative Divorce Practitioner
  • Intervision leader
  • Dialogue coach training (NLP/Systemic)

Memberships

  • Association of Family Lawyers and Divorce Mediators (vFAS)
  • Mediation Federation of the Netherlands (MfN)
  • Dutch Institute of Psychologists Mediation Section (NIP)
  • Association of Collaborative Divorce Professionals (VVCP)
  • Fellow International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL)

Additional functions

  • Certified peer counselor (registered with the NOvA)
  • Tutor training intervision supervisor
  • EFT expert
  • Coach (individual career development/Team coaching)
  • Certified mediator MfN (vFAS)
  • Founder of HUB Holistic Practice
  • Trainer vocational training CPO/Dialogue
  • Guest lecturer VU Amsterdam at CMO, subject Mediation
  • Trainer workshop/training Holistic Practice (2016, 2017 and 2018)
  • Co-founder of 'The Divorce Cafe'.

Articles/lectures

  • Magazine Mediation Kluwer autumn 2018
  • Journal of Conflict Management (TC) No. 2, 2018 Theme Sustainable Relationships, 'The conflict-the relationship re-enrichment' (p5-9)
  • Divorce Bulletin (EB) 2016, 'Condemning wife to litigation costs'
  • Henry Brown lecture, DR Conference 2016 (Resolution Family Law UK)
  • Divorce Bulletin (EB) May 2014, 'The LOVe Convention', advancing the Parenting Plan'
  • Presentation UCERF Department at Utrecht University on the LOVe Convention, April 15, 2014
  • Co-authored 'To all divorced parents' by Marsha Pinedo
  • Co-author to 'Prenups'by Dr. mr. F. Schonewille and Mr. dr. L.H.M. Zonnenberg
  • Divorce Bulletin (EB) 2005, 'The Hillen Act'.

Media

  • RTL news February 26, 2014, 'Are your parents getting divorced? 10 tips to help you
  • Youth news during vFAS congress September 13, 2013
  • Debate on 2, How can fighting divorces be prevented? How do we put the best interests of the child first?

Languages

Dutch, English, French