Build a
Strong &
Happy
Life

Justice Belongs to Everybody

February 2026—Edition

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 intimate 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.
Create New Balance
Family Dispute Prevention
and Resolution Services
Dispute prevention and resolution services offered through Praxis provide culturally grounded, human 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 contentious matters.

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

Common Causes of Conflicts

Explore the Most Common Causes of Family Conflicts and How to Resolve Them

Hopes & Expectations

Communication Breakdowns

Financial Strains

Mental Health & Trauma

Parenting & Discipline

Addiction & Substance Abuse

Cultural & Generational Gaps

Lack of Respect & Boundaries

Wills & Estates

Sibling Rivalry

About Praxis

Effective Plans and Strategies for your Home and Community

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.

Psychological Health & Safety
Enjoy the Long-term Benefits of Positive Daily Interactions.
Research has shown that early childhood experiences and trauma can shape future perspectives and outcomes. By improving psychological safety in your home, you can proactively protect your family's mental health, and help your children build a strong, sustainable and happy life. 

Don't wait for a mental health crisis or an emergency to strike your home or community, implement the latest human rights-based psychological health and safety standards today.

Service Streams

Family and Community Centered 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.

practice areas

Intergovernmental Relations

Resolve Disputes In

Land and Title Rights, Specific Claims, Resource Management, Essential Services, Infrastructure, Child and Family Services, Indigenous Self-Government.

Wills and Estates

Resolve Disputes In

Wills, Estates, Property Management, Personal Possessions.

Community Affairs

Resolve Disputes In

Strategic Policies, Operations, Internal Communications.

Business Development

Resolve Disputes In

Local and Regional Business Development.

Employment

Resolve Disputes In

Proactive Consultation, Engagement and Co-Development.

Insurance

Resolve Disputes In

Group and Individual Insurances.

Real Estate

Resolve Disputes In

Real Estate

Real Estate and Commercial Leasing

Resolve Disputes In

Commercial Leasing on Reserve Lands in Canada.

Construction

Resolve Disputes In

Construction and Development Projects on Reserve Lands in Canada.

Health and Life Sciences

Resolve Disputes In

Health and Life Sciences

Intellectual property (IP)

Resolve Disputes In

Intellectual property (IP)

Arts and Media

Resolve Disputes In

Arts and Media

Talks for All Recognition Events
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

Talks for All

Recognition Events, Lectures and Experientials

17Feb

Strategic & Operational Planning for Band Councils & Executive Members

10Mar

Improving Information Management in Cross-Functional Programs, Services & Initiatives

17Mar

Removing Legal & Policy Barriers to Autonomic Governance & Self-Determination

14Apr

New Fiscal Arrangements for Effective Variance Management Across the Nations

22May

Women's Leadership Series for Psychological Health & Safety in the Home & Community

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