Praxis Forum - Live a Long & Happy Life

Raise the Standards

Reclaim Your Right
to Health and Wellness

Did you know that some of the most distructive conflicts happen right in the home and the community, between partners, husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, friends and close relatives? Conflicts like these can have devastating long-term consequences on all family members, including children and elders.

The most common causes of family conflicts include communication breakdowns, financial hardship, lack of kindness, infidelity and irreconcilable differences.

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Create New Balance

Family Dispute Prevention
and Resolution Services

Dispute prevention and resolution services offered through Praxis provide culturally grounded, rights-based approaches, focusing on family unity, reconciliation, healing, and the best interests of children, through practical interventions that aim to address the root causes of conflicts, before they escalate into disputes, legal emergencies and family crises.

These services aim to keep families and communities together, by creating holistic plans based on their unique values, needs and goals for the future. Don't wait for conflicts to destroy your family and good fortune, consider the best alternatives before its too late.

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Explore the Most Common Causes of Family Conflicts and their Consequences

Hopes & Expectations

Communication Breakdowns

Financial Disagreements

Mental Health & Unresolved Trauma

Parenting & Discipline

Substance Abuse & Addiction

Cultural & Linguistic Gaps

Lack of Respect & Boundaries

Wills, Estates & Trusts

Beliefs & Values

Lack of Housing & Overcrowding

Our Family and Community Practice

Who We Are

Substance, Scope and Outreach

Praxis Forum is a Dispute Prevention and Resolution Clinic like no other. We are dedicated to promoting better access to alternative and integrative justice for all Canadians. We do this by providing fair, effective and affordable services and training at the community level. Our Clinic makes special provisions intended to meet the needs of underserved communities and members of the population at greater risk of being the next victims of injustice and oppression.

What We Do

Our Purpose and Mission

Our purpose is to bring people and justice together. We fulfill our mission through our unique offering of alternative and integrative service streams, designed to meet the growing needs of rural and isolated communities across the nation. Our Talks for All recognition events provide community leaders and local participants with a safe, unbiased and confidential forum, in which to reflect and develop effective plans and strategies that will promote positive transformations in people, places and power structures, for sustainable outcomes from one generation to the next.

When We Do It

Availability and Location

Praxis Forum offers disputes prevention and resolution services, including education and practical training opportunities across Canada, in both official languages. Services are available on-line or in-person. Depending on the nature and purpose of the intervention, we may also provide services in your native language, with the support of local volunteers, professional translators or interpreters.

How We Do It

Holistic, Human Rights-Based & Culturally Grounded

Besides ensuring the fairness, effectiveness and affordability of our dispute resolution processes, our goal is to deliver caring, compassionate and comprehensive services to all our distinguished clients. Our hybrid protocols place much emphasis on the unique needs and expectations of a diversity of peoples, for whom the experience of resolution may include components that go beyond the monetary aspects of the matter.

Why We Do It

Violence and Discrimination Free Communities

Disputes of any kind can have devastating consequences on the health, wellbeing and socio-economic stability and viability of those involved in such predicaments. Thus, early intervention and prevention of high risk conflicts and disputes is at the very heart of our strategies, plans and customized protocols, which focus on managing variances, but also purpose in helping our clients identify and interrupt negative patterns, and trigger healing, recovery and balance.

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Enjoy the Long-term Benefits
of Positive Daily Interactions.

Research has shown that early childhood experiences and trauma can shape future perspectives, relationships and outcomes. By improving psychological health and safety in your home and community, you can proactively protect your family and community's mental health and wellbeing, its economic stability and security, and encourage your children, and their children, to build a strong and happy life.

Don't wait for the advent of an emergency or a crisis. Implement the latest human rights-based psychological health and safety standards, in your home and community today.

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Family and Community-Centric Services

Faciliation

The community is full of complex and delicate questions. Facilitation sessions are perfect for working through or debriefing some of the ugliest battles that communities may face in their daily endeavors. This service is open to community representatives and executives, and their personnel or members, conducting business under federal or provincial jurisdictions in Canada. Topics of discussion may include, but are not limited to; human rights issues, matters of consultation and accommodation, jurisdictional issues, funding frameworks and policies, public and private service contracts, employment contracts, and a wide range of issues in the workplace.

Mediation Service

Mediation is a voluntary, confidential, and informal process in which a neutral third party, the mediator assists disputing parties in reaching a mutually acceptable settlement of their issues. The core purpose of mediation is to facilitate communication and help the parties generate their own solutions, rather than having a decision imposed upon them by a judge or arbitrator.

Conciliation

Communtiy-Based Conciliation is a process for helping disputing parties work through their issues by way of an informal, voluntary, confidential and non-adjudicative process that typically results in a settlement agreement which is binding on the parties. The conciliator is a neutral third-party, who is impartial and independent. The conciliator’s role is to provide disputing parties with a fair and equitable process in which to prevent the escalation of their matter, manage variances and reach a fair and reasonable settlement. The Community-Based Conciliation service is appropriate for dealing with a broad-range of issues involving private, corporate or commercial matters.

Neutral Investigation

Neutral investigation is a confidential and non-binding administrative process, designed to meet the operational needs and requirements of an organization, in terms of assessing and mitigating risk related to cases of misconduct, including psychological and sexual violence or harassment in the workplace.

Arbitration Service

Arbitration is a form of alternative dispute resolution where a neutral third party hears evidence from all sides and renders a final and binding decision. This process is typically private, less formal, and often faster and less expensive than traditional court litigation.

North Star Axis

The First Order
of Business

From Legal Fiction to Social and Economic Reality: Evidence-Based Guidance and Inspiration for Progressive, Forward-Thinking Public Policies & Programs.

Even-Handed Intergovernmental Relations, Across Federal, Provincial and Territorial Jurisdictions.
Intergovernmental Relations

Community-Based Governance, Legal and Regulatory Authority and Capability.
Community Affairs

Eco-Friendly and Sustainable Economic and Business Development.
Economic and Business Development

In-Community Access to Conventional and Alternative Medicine, Health and Wellness Services.
Integrated Insured and Non-Insured Health Services

Evidence-Based Infrastructure Planning, Public Transit, Fire Protection, Waste Management.
Sound Infrastructure

Employment Growth, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
Employment Growth

Community Housing, Cultural Facilities and Spaces Designed for Arts, Heritage, and Community Enrichment.
Construction Projects and Housing

Community-based Education and Learning, Including Post-Secondary Facilities and Resources.
Education and Learning

Proactive Consultation by Governments and Corporations; Land, Energy, Minerals, and other Natural Resources Exploitation.
Proactive Consultation

Commercial Leasing on Designated Reserve Lands.
Commercial Leasing

Safe Drinking Water, Protection from Pollution, Environmental Health and Safety.
Public and Environmental Health

Digital platforms which protect and promote cultural diversity and local perspectives.
Arts and Media

Intellectual property (IP) and Copyright. To explore more about Indigenous People and IP, please check the link below.
Intellectual property (IP)
https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/intellectual-property-strategy/en/indigenous-peoples-and-intellectual-property

Talks for All

Speaking the Truth About Justice

Explore the forefront of alternative and integrative justice with Talks for All recognition events, lectures and experientials.

These carefully crafted events provide community leaders and participants with a safe, unbiased and confidential forum in which to seek out truths, root-out errors, eliminate inconsistencies and reconcile misunderstandings, in a friendly, participatory and informal setting.

To organize an event with your group of executives or community members, contact Jennifer Braga at events@praxis-forum.com

Speaking the Truth About Justice Events, Lectures and Experientials

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Justice Belongs to Everybody

Common Causes of Conflicts