Divorce Mediation in Massachusetts

Organizational Ombuds
nnena-ombuds@mwi.org

Nnena Odim is a mediator, ombuds, attorney, trainer, and consultant. She has been mediating since 1997, and has mediated disputes involving issues such as employment, housing, business, consumer, academic/higher education, and the full range of family/domestic relations (divorce, unmarried parents, elder care, adoption, etc.). Nnena has also designed and/or led conflict management trainings for several local and national businesses and agencies, including the Boston Public Schools, Massachusetts Housing Authority, Neighborhood Works, Coca-Cola, and Netflix. In addition to her mediation and conflict resolution training background, Nnena is trained by the International Ombuds Association and has served as an ombuds for CVS, the American Planning Association, and several local construction companies. After 25 years, Nnena has recently retired from Harvard Law School, where she was the Director and Senior Clinical Instructor of the Family/Domestic Violence Law Clinic at Harvard’s Legal Services Center. In addition to being an active practicing attorney in Massachusetts Family and Probate Courts, she provided experiential training to law students and taught them how to become effective and ethical attorneys.

Nnena has worked with the Harvard Mediation Program (HMP) and Harvard Program on Negotiation to provide trainings for students and community members, and to supervise Harvard Law School students in their mediation and negotiation studies. She served as a faculty and coach of mediation skills for trainings at Suffolk and Boston College Law Schools, MIT, and New England School of Law. Nnena has also served on numerous panels and speaking rosters for a variety of topics, including those on self-care and mental health for students and faculty, establishing boundaries in a professional setting, race and gender, and LGBTQ+ rights.

Nnena is a member of the HMP Advisory Board. In 2019, Nnena was honored by the Harvard Women’s Law Association International Committee. In 2015, she received the Harvard Law School Dean’s Award for Excellence, and in 2013, Nnena was a Top Women in the Law award recipient from Mass. Lawyers Weekly.

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Dispute Resolution Experience

Ben Stich is a family and divorce mediator with MWI. He mediates conflicts of all kinds, specializing in family disputes. He mediates divorce, co-parenting conflict, and marital issues. Ben also mediates all types of family disputes, such as conflict between parents and their adult children, adult siblings, and parents and their teenage children. Ben also helps families improve their co-parenting as an instructor for the state’s only High Conflict Parent Education program at William James College.

In addition to mediating, Ben is certified in the Think:Kids Collaborate Problem Solving© model and works with Think:Kids at MGH’s Department of Psychiatry to help families, educators, and clinicians work effectively with children and teens who exhibit challenging behaviors.

Ben is a licensed independent clinical social worker and an active member of the Massachusetts Council on Family Mediation and the Massachusetts Chapter of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts.

Focus Areas

• Divorce for short-term and long-term marriages
• Co-Parenting plans
• Custody disputes
• Parent-Teen Conflict
• Marriage Problems
• Interim separation agreements
• Asset and liability division
• Property division
• High conflict divorce matters
• Elder and estate disputes

Honors, Memberships, and Professional Activities

• Member, Massachusetts Council for Family Mediation (MCFM)
• Licensed Independent Social Worker (LICSW)
• School Adjustment Counselor License
• Member, National Association of Social Workers
• Collaborative Problem Solving Certification from Mass General’s Department of Psychiatry’s Think:Kids program
• Member, AFCC

Lectures and ADR Trainings Conducted & Publications

• “Better Parent” Parent Education Program, June 2016 – August 2021
• Parenting Apart Instructor for the Divorce Center, 2014 – 2016
• Communication and Conflict Blogger, 2013 – present
• Communication Workshop for the Parent/Professional Advocacy League, 2014
• High Conflict Divorce Mediation Training, 2013
• Collaborative Problem Solving for:
  – Canton School District, Central Cabinet, 2011-2012
  – MENTOR Network – Therapeutic Foster Care Program, 2011
  – Massachusetts School Counselors Association – Guidance Administrators Forum, 2011
• More Than Words, Workplace Communication Workshop, 2010
• Germaine Lawrence, Family Communication Workshop, Co-Facilitator, (2001 – 2005)
• Residential Treatment for Adolescent Girls for:
  – National Child Welfare League of America Conference (2005)
  – MASOC Annual Conference (2005-2009)
  – Tenth National Workshop on Adult and Juvenile Female Offenders (2003)

Background and Education

• M.Ed in Organizational Development, Endicott College
• MSW, Boston College, 2001
• BA, Trinity College, 1996

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Mediator
617-895-4028

Daniele Ozeri has been a mediator with MWI since 2017, specializing in workplace, divorce, consumer, and youth mediation. She has mediated cases in the labor courts of Tel Aviv and facilitated identity-based conflict resolution in Jerusalem.

After relocating to Massachusetts, Daniele brought her expertise to Somerville and Cambridge public schools, where she has also designed and led mediation trainings for both youth and adults, partnering with schools such as Chelsea High School, CCSC, and the Acera School.

Currently, she mediates divorce cases in her private practice, directs mediation programs at the Cambridge and Waltham Juvenile Courts, and serves as a mediator with MWI.

Daniele is the editor of Re-Envisioning Conflict Resolution: Vision, Action and Evaluation in Creative Conflict Engagement (Routledge, 2017) and holds a Master’s degree in Conflict Management and Resolution from Bar-Ilan University in Israel.