Some situations don't leave room for a standard, weeks-long program. When a high-stakes event is approaching fast, or when someone is ready to make a real shift and wants to go all in, The Readiness Intensive offers a different kind of format entirely.

What Is The Readiness Intensive?

A private, luxury weekend built for individuals who are ready to stop reacting on impulse and start responding with calm, clarity, and confidence. It's an immersive, concentrated format rather than a multi-week program, designed for people who want deep, focused work compressed into a single weekend.

Who Is This Program Built For?

People who recognize that impulsive reactions, whether in high-stakes conversations, relationships, or everyday conflict, are costing them something significant, and who are ready to do focused work to change that pattern directly. It's also a strong fit for anyone facing an approaching high-stakes event, like mediation or a major legal proceeding, who needs more concentrate...

Most relationship patterns that cause the most damage aren't dramatic. They're small, repeated habits: a communication style that reads as combative even when it isn't meant to, a boundary that's never quite been set, a reaction that shows up the same way every time a certain topic comes up. Relationship Skills Training exists to identify and change those specific patterns, not through generic advice, but through personalized, one-on-one work.

What Is Relationship Skills Training?

An 8-week, personalized, one-on-one training program focused on relationship skills, interpersonal communication, emotional intelligence, and healthy boundaries. It's built around your specific patterns and goals rather than delivered as a fixed curriculum applied the same way to everyone.

What Does the Program Actually Cover?

The program explores the interplay between effective communication and emotional intelligence, while building the practical skill of establishing and maintaining healthy boundari...

 Most people reaching out aren't sure exactly which program they need, and they shouldn't have to be. That's what the Telephone Consultation is for: a short, focused call to understand your situation and point you toward the right next step, before you commit to anything further.

What Is the Telephone Consultation?

A 30-minute call to understand your situation and identify the right program. The goal is straightforward: map what's actually happening and what to do about it, so you leave the call with clarity rather than more open questions.

What Happens on the Call?

You'll describe what you're dealing with, in your own words, without needing to have it perfectly organized beforehand. From there, the conversation focuses on identifying the pattern at play and which SAMI Group program, if any, actually fits your situation. It's a diagnostic conversation, not a sales pitch.

Do I Need to Prepare Anything Beforehand?

Nothing formal. Come ready to describe the situation as clearly as y...

 Most people who reach out already know something isn't working. What they usually don't have yet is a precise, accurate name for it. The Assessment & Action Plan exists to close that gap, and it's the starting point for every program SAMI Group offers, for good reason.

What Is the Assessment & Action Plan?

A structured behavioral assessment that identifies your conflict pattern, your specific triggers, and the conduct that's actually working against you, followed by a written action plan built to change it. It's not a generic personality quiz. It's a targeted look at what's happening in your specific situation and why.

Why Is This the Starting Point for Every Program?

Every effective training program needs a clear, accurate starting picture, otherwise you risk working on the wrong thing entirely. The assessment identifies the actual pattern at play before any further work begins, which means whatever program you move into afterward, anger management, relationship skills training, ...

Managing anger productively is something few people, organizations, or even entire households do well. The research is consistent on this point: people who manage their emotional reactions well tend to be more successful, in relationships and at work, than those who don't. Breaking the Anger Habit was built to help close that gap, whether you're here voluntarily or because a court required it.

What Does the Program Cover?

The training works through anger as a full process, not just a single reaction to manage in the moment. Topics include what anger actually is, the anger process itself, the problem with trigger thoughts, how anger affects thinking, communication under stress, behavior types, and practical tools for taking control before a reaction takes over.

Is This Training Available Online?

Yes. Client services are offered remotely via Zoom. Group classes meet weekly, and private sessions are available by appointment.

Do You Offer Both Self-Referred and Court-Ordered Programs?...

Most workplace conflict doesn't show up as a dramatic incident. It shows up as tension that quietly drains a team's productivity, a manager who avoids a difficult conversation for months, or an escalation pattern that keeps repeating because no one's ever addressed the behavior underneath it. Corporate training and workplace workshops exist to change that, and here's what organizations typically want to know before booking.

What Is Corporate Conflict Training?

De-escalation and behavioral training for teams and organizations, built on the same behavioral framework used across SAMI Group's individual programs, adapted specifically for the workplace. Instead of generic communication tips, this training addresses the actual behavioral patterns, triggers, and conflict dynamics playing out in real teams.

How Is This Different From a Standard Corporate Training Program?

Most workplace training programs teach communication frameworks in the abstract. This training is grounded in more than...

Beyond the preparation and coaching programs The SAMI Group is known for, direct mediation services are also available, facilitated as an Accredited Mediator. This is the most common set of questions I hear from people trying to figure out if this is the right next step for their situation.

What Mediation Services Does SAMI Group Offer?

Direct, neutral mediation for disputes including family conflict, co-parenting communication, business and property disagreements, and other civil matters. This is separate from Mediation Readiness Training, which prepares someone for a mediation, this is the mediation itself, facilitated directly.

How Is This Different From Mediation Readiness Training?

These are two different services entirely. Mediation Readiness Training prepares an individual party for a mediation they're entering, wherever it's held and whoever is facilitating it. Direct mediation services mean acting as the neutral third party facilitating the negotiation between both sides o...

One of the hardest parts of dealing with a difficult pattern, whether it's someone else's conduct or your own, is that it can be genuinely hard to describe clearly. You know something is happening. You can feel the pattern. But putting it into words precise enough to act on, or to document, is a different skill entirely. The Prove It Intensive was built specifically to close that gap.

What Is the Prove It Intensive?

The Prove It Intensive is a focused, two-session program, 90 minutes followed by 60 minutes, that produces a written behavioral pattern report. It's designed to take what feels like a vague, hard-to-articulate pattern of conduct and turn it into a clear, documented account of what's actually happening.

The name reflects exactly what it does: it helps you prove, in writing, what a pattern looks like, rather than leaving it as a feeling you can't quite pin down.

What Happens in the Two Sessions?

The first session, 90 minutes, is focused on a thorough exploration of the s...

 Walking into mediation prepared with documents is one thing. Walking in prepared to stay composed, credible, and clear-headed while discussing the thing you're actually in conflict about is another. That second kind of preparation is what Mediation Readiness Training is built for, and it's one of the questions I get asked about most, so here's a full breakdown.

What Is Mediation Readiness Training?

Mediation Readiness Training is behavioral preparation for people entering mediation or another legal proceeding. It's not legal advice and it's not the mediation itself. It's focused, practical work on how you show up once you're in the room: your triggers, your composure under pressure, and how clearly you're able to communicate your position when it actually counts.

Most people don't lose ground in mediation because their case is weak. They lose ground because a moment of frustration, defensiveness, or reactivity undercuts their credibility right when it matters most. This training ad...

 Co-parenting conflict rarely announces itself as one big issue. It's usually smaller and more constant: a tone in a text message, a last-minute schedule change, a disagreement about a decision that should've been simple. None of it looks dramatic from the outside, but it accumulates, and it's often the kids who feel the weight of it most. Mediation is one of the more effective tools for addressing this, not because it eliminates disagreement, but because it rebuilds a communication process that can actually hold up over time.

Why Co-Parenting Communication Breaks Down

Most co-parenting conflict isn't really about the specific issue on the table that week. It's about accumulated patterns: unclear expectations about decision-making, a breakdown in trust from the relationship that ended, or communication habits, like reactive texting in the middle of a disagreement, that escalate small issues into bigger ones. Without a structured way to communicate, co-parents often default to either ...