Hayley Solomons

My passion is people and working toward creating peace within themselves and myself. I thrive on open communication. I respect the challenges that others experience in this regard, and it is here, where my desire for healthy resolution lies, to actively encourage conflicting individuals to identify and engage in healthier, more beneficial ways of dealing with either their own internal and/or external conflicts. My desire to finding a balance in my life, by fulfilling my own basic needs in all areas, has found me embracing the desire to assist others meeting their own basic needs. This is why in recent years, after many years of childhood and adult trauma, and of working in retail and IT support where conflict arises in every corner of one’s career, I found my passion to pursuing my

psychology degree. 

At this late stage in my life, I managed to complete 2years of undergraduate

study and my passion only grows deeper. I desire to complete my degree soonest circumstances

provide me opportunity, but for now am blessed to have recently attended and become certified as an ADR-NetworkSA Mediator including Rule41A and Court Annexed Mediation. It is through this very process called mediation, that I can now positively identify my true understanding and. application of American Psychologist, Abraham Maslow’s theory, which speaks to human beings reaching their true potential and becoming whom they are intended to be. This, he introduced through a list of what he refers to as the hierarchy of a human being’s basic needs. This in essence is what we aspire through the process of mediation, to have the consulting parties each achieving a fair sense of equality and equity by engaging themselves, via an appointed mediator, in a healthy discussion regarding what each one needs in order to leave their mediated session feeling hopeful with a fair resolution that benefits both parties. In so doing, saving them not only high costs but also restoring their dignity and sanity, and saving them the internal chaos that we are told is often the result of tedious litigation processes. I look   forward to becoming an active participant of ADR-Network SA through ongoing training and engaging in areas where my current and future skills can be of benefit to others, and I thank ADR-Network sa for this promising opportunity of joining their panel.