About Jane Shire

Jane Shire - Family Mediator

Jane Shire’s unique blend of experience and mediation skills makes her ideally suited to mediating family disputes.

Qualifications

In addition to being a qualified Family Mediator Jane is a psychology graduate (Royal Holloway London University), a certified professional co-active coach, and has a background in professional healthcare serrvices.

Jane’s professional memberships are:

• the Family Mediators’ Association
• the British Psychological Society and
• the International Coach Federation.

Experience

Jane has a wealth of experience in people-related fields:

Family Mediation

As an extension to her personal coaching and public health activities Jane qualified as a family mediator in 2005. She then completed several co-mediation assignments in East London. Since 2006 Jane has built a thriving private Family Mediation practice in the East Berkshire area and has successfully completed numerous mediations.

Other Family Mediation qualifications:

• Jane completed the Family Consultant’s training programme in April 2006 and
• qualified for Direct Consultation with Children in September 2006
• In April 2008 Jane achieved the exceptionally demanding Competance Assessment for Family Mediators set by the Family Mediation Council

Nursing for the National Health Service

From 1967 -69 and 1970-73 Jane was a Staff Nurse and Theatre Sister at various hospitals in Buckinghamshire and London.

Corporate experience

From 1973-74, working with Johnson & Johnson, Jane was a Clinical Trials Officer based at the UK headquarters in Berkshire.

Health Visiting

From 1975-2007 Jane worked as a Health Visitor in various parts of the local community. In 2006 she set up My Health Visitor, a private health visiting service offering child health clinics and home visits which she ran until this business was sold in 2010.

Personal & Family Coaching

Since 2002 Jane has been supporting, motivating and encouraging people to identify, explore and implement changes in their lives from moving job or location to managing personal relationships and accepting new challenges. In 2008 Jane added the further dimension of Family Coaching to her practice.
Please visit www.lifeharmony.co.uk for more information.

Divorce Coaching

In 2011 Jane has added a new coaching service to help individuals who are separating, divorcing or are post divorce meet the challenges they face. Please visit www.coaching4divorce.co.uk for more details.