Free Resources for Mediators and Solicitors

We provide support for families navigating separation — including courses for adults and their children, practical resources, and specialist training for professionals. Your Direction is our FREE 5-session online course for young people aged 12–17 & 18-30, created by Restored Lives in partnership with Spurgeons.

We also provide training for mediators and solicitors and opportunities to volunteer, if you want to be directly involved with this life-changing work.

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You can make a huge difference!

As solicitors, mediators or experts working with families in transition you can help families get the targeted support they need. Our resources can help parents engage more effectively with the process. Your Direction helps children to:

– Process what’s happening

– Build resilience

– Learn life skills

– Feel heard and understood

– Meet other’s who’ve been there

– Available for 12-17 years and 18-30 years

  • "I feel empowered to live my own life and feel that my parent’s divorce is an event and not a defining feature of my life. I also feel equipped to set boundaries and express my feelings comfortably."

    - Your Direction Participant

  • "The best thing about Your Direction was being able to share difficult situations and past experiences in a safe space with people who are willing to listen and not judge."

    - Your Direction Participant

  • "I found this course very inviting and easy to jump into."

    - Your Direction Participant

  • "I learned how to deal with issues and how to see the silver lining of a problem"

    - Your Direction Participant

  • "I didn't realise how powerful sharing your shared experiences could be. Everyone seems so impacted in such a great way and all we did was have a conversation. I wish there were spaces like this in everyday life."

    - Your Direction Participant

  • "It was quite hard to open up but was rewarding. I was in quite a vulnerable place and didn't realise how low I was until I did the first survey."

    - Your Direction Participant

  • "We were given the space to engage in conversations I never would of been a part of in my day-to-day life as well as a giant tool box to cope with my parent's separation."

    - Your Direction Participant

  • "The best thing about Your Direction was finding people who empathised with situations rather than just sympathising"

    - Your Direction Participant

  • "Your Direction has given me skills I will use now including: active listening skills, staying calm in tense situations, setting boundaries, open communication, greater perception, more empathy and kindness for others (even those who hurt me) and forgiveness for myself and others."

    - Your Direction Participant

  • "The best thing about Your Direction was being able to talk and be listened to and ask questions that others don't usually do."

    - Your Direction Participant

Download and send the brochure

Share this brochure with parents who are separating and help young people get the support they need.

Contact us if you would like to order copies for your waiting room or offices.


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We can provide off-the-shelf course materials and full training for your team.

We can provide bespoke presentations, workshops and training for your team.

Professionals with a mediation and law background are some of our most valuable volunteers. If you’d like to be involved delivering Your Direction working directly with young people contact us for volunteering opportunities.

Or if you’d like to run the course exclusively for your clients, register on our leaders hub to explore all the course materials then contact us to discuss a partnership agreement. It’s FREE to run the course for the first year.

 

 

More Resources For Professionals

We’ve created a customisable email template you can use to send all the most useful resources to parents.

Email Template

Interested in volunteering with us? Watch this excerpt from an Instagram Live we created with Family Knowledge Lawyer and Mediator, Natalie O’Shea. Natalie is a volunteer helping to run Your Direction.

What's it like to volunteer?

Parents can use this letter template to agree the basis of a their parenting relationship after a separation.

Parenting Letter Template

More Resources For Young People


More Resources For Parents

Download our FREE handout about the best ways to support your child(ren) through separation and divorce.

Help your child navigate your separation

Use this letter template as a starting point to agreeing some ground rules with your ex about how you will parent together now you have separated.

Parenting Letter Template

These top tips for parents who are separated was created by the Family Justice Young People’s Board. All the members of FJYPB are children and young people with experience of family law proceedings.

FJYPB Top Tips

Your Direction has been developed by Restored Lives in partnership with the children’s charity Spurgeons. It is delivered by trained volunteers who have experienced the issues surrounding parental separation personally. All the necessary safeguarding processes are in place.