Helen Clarke
Helen is an accredited mediator with a special interest in Elder Mediation.
Helen completed a Graduate Diploma in Business Studies (Dispute Resolution) from Massey University in 2017. She is an member of the Arbitrator Mediator Institute of New Zealand (AMINZ) and an accredited mediator through the Resolution Institute. This year her focus has been to attain her international accreditation in Elder Mediation through the Elder Mediation International Network (EMIN). She trained as a CINERGY Conflict Management Coach in 2019.
Helen has provided mediation, facilitation, and conflict coaching in a variety of settings. She has assisted people in using conflict to create opportunities and find new ways of doing things, as well as reset relationships and restore enthusiasm and participation.
Helen is a highly skilled communicator; this assists her in understanding the issues and underlying needs of the people she works with. She supports people by empowering them and standing alongside them, versus being the fixer of their problems. In everything Helen does she sees her role as providing a process or framework that is respectful and safe for the people taking part.
Helen came to working with people in conflict after a successful career as a physiotherapist.
Her understanding of the health sector, through working both in the public and private sectors, her volunteer work, and lived experience makes her well placed to assist people when having the essential and often tricky conversations about the future needs of their loved ones.
Helen is based in Wānaka, where she enjoys the opportunities that proximity to the mountains offers her. Spending time on her bike or tramping in the mountains restores her after assisting people in conflict. Some of that time includes clearing predator traps in Wānaka and for the Big Bay Awarua Conservation Trust.
She especially enjoys working face-to-face with people around her local area but she is also available to work online using Zoom and Microsoft Teams.
