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Grimmstane House, Grimmstane, Forneth, Perthshire, PH10 6SW
t: 07733 882543 e: jeremy@catalystmediation.co.uk w: catalystmediation.co.uk
Welcome to Catalyst Mediation Ltd
It's all about relationships...
...between leaders and their Teams, Directors and their Boards
...between colleagues, partners, spouses or customers
...between companies, charites and public services
Catalyst was formed in November 2004 by David Semple and Jeremy Scuse after each had successful careers in law and international marketing respectively. They met at Scottish Mediation when David had been mediating with London based CEDR for several years and Jeremy had recently attained CEDR accreditation.
Since then Catalyst has mediated and facilitated hundreds of single and multi-party cases for companies, individuals, charities and government organisations throughout Scotland. David has now retired while Jeremy and his colleagues, who are accredited with Scottish Mediation, continue to mediate and facilitate corporate, community and workplace issues and train local government and corporate staff, solicitors and members of the public in negotiation and conflict management skills.
To have a satisfying working relationship with colleagues and clients, our values are simple. We seek to be Inclusive, Innovative, Trustworthy and Confidential. Plus we do not believe in a blame culture, rather we seek to understand causes and create solutions for the future. Read more about us
OUR SERVICES
FACILITATING RELATIONSHIPS
“Conflict in relationships is natural, inevitable, necessary and normal and that the problem is not the existence of conflict but how we handle it” --- Bernard Mayer, 2000, The Dynamics of Conflict Resolution
NEGOTIATING RELATIONSHIPS
“Your first objective in the negotiation, instead of making your own argument, should be to hear the other side, that’s the only way you will help them to hear you. Most people don’t do that.” --- Christopher Voss, FBI Professor of Negotiation
COACHING RELATIONSHIPS
The partnership between the individual and their coach will be a thought-provoking, creative process that inspires the individual to maximise their professional potential.
TEAM RELATIONSHIPS
Teams are the ultimate test of relationships. Teams are mutually responsible for the quality of their output – they depend on each other to contribute to being the best at what they do.
SKILLS
"Communication is the behaviour of one organism with the potential to change the behaviour of another." --- Dictionary of Biology
FAMILY BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS
Family firms have two overlapping systems: a rational system - the way the business works - and an emotional system - the way the family relationships work – or don’t.
ABOUT JEREMY
" I gained a degree in Psychology and then spent 25 years in international marketing with multinationals and then running my own companies, while being a Fellow of the Institute of Directors and latterly a Scottish Enterprise Business Mentor. In 1999 I accredited with CEDR as a mediator, since when I have been mediating, facilitating and training clients including companies, councils, the NHS, SNH, schools, universities, the Courts and charities. I co-devised and ran the Sheriff Court Mediation Pilots, have conducted a range of large group and community facilitations, write regularly on conflict resolution techniques and am a co-author of Mediation at Work.
My mediation practice is mainly facilitative and future focused, because we can learn from the past but not live in it, so I will ask to be directive if things become bogged down. I tend to spend time initially working with parties individually, to understand their hopes and fears, motivations and needs, so that when everyone is in the same room I am in the best position to help if things get stuck. I believe the exchange of information can help to shift perspectives and attitudes, so building the confidence that looks to the future. And as the devil is always in the detail, I can be very picky when it comes to the resolution - how will it work, when, done by whom, with what effect. It is just that having spent the time and energy getting there, I think I owe it to the parties to make sure their ideas will deliver what they hope.
I have two daughters living in France, four grandchildren, when not working I steward 40 acres of Perthshire woodland as a Natural Wilderness and red squirrel breeding site and sit as a Chair of the Children's Hearing panel in Arbroath."
