Barbara Marcus

Barbara Marcus is a mediator, trainer, and conflict coach with experience handling family, civil, and housing disputes. She is a founding partner of Navigating Resolutions, an alternative dispute resolution practice. Barbara received training at the Harvard Mediation Program at Harvard Law School, Cheshire Mediation, Keene NH and University of Massachusetts, Boston. In addition, she has received advanced education in collaborative law, parent /child, divorce, elder and landlord /tenant mediation, parent coordination, advocacy, special needs planning and disability issues. Barbara currently mediates family and civil cases for the Harvard Mediation Program and Metropolitan Mediation Services, Brookline. She is a case liaison for Small Claims Court in Quincy, Massachusetts and a trainer for the family and peer mediation programs at both Harvard and Metropolitan Mediation. Barbara also serves on Mediation Works Inc. Boston Municipal and District Court Mediation Panel.

Barbara integrates her experience in the health care field and community organizations with her practice as a mediator. She has served as a parent consultant at the Federation for Children with Special Needs and as an educational surrogate parent for the Massachusetts Department of Education. She co-chairs the No Place For Hate Committee of the Anti- Defamation League in Hingham MA, coordinating community based educational programs. As a licensed Occupational Therapist, Barbara provided services within public schools and community health settings for over 25 years.

Barbara received a BS in Occupational Therapy from Tufts University, a Masters Degree in Public Health from Boston University and a Graduate Certificate in Dispute Resolution at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is a member of the Massachusetts Council on Family Mediation, Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council, The Divorce Center, Association for Conflict Resolution, and the New England Chapter of the Association for Conflict Resolution.