Law & Mediation Office
of Hansa R. Patel
Trainer • Mediator • Mindfulness Teacher • Attorney
Practice Areas
Hansa Patel offers mediation services and conflict resolution trainings through an integrated approach that blends mindfulness, reflective practice, and equity-centered principles. Her work supports individuals, youth, families, organizations, and communities in navigating conflict with curiosity, compassion, and understanding, supporting the transformation of human relationships.
Trainer
Experiential Mediation Training and Leadership Conflict Coaching
Hansa designs and facilitates experiential mediation training that blends mindfulness-based mediation, equity-centered mediation, and reflective debrief practice. Her programs help mediators, lawyers, mental health professionals, and community leaders deepen awareness, strengthen compassion, and build the specialized mediation skills training needed to resolve workplace and cross-cultural conflict.
Offerings include:
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Professional mediation training for organizations and firms.
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Equity-centered leadership training and conflict skills for leaders.
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DEIB conflict resolution modules and DEI-informed communication workshops.
"Lasting transformation begins with the courage to look within."
Reflective Debrief Practice
Reflective Practice Groups for Mediators
Lasting transformation begins with the courage to look within. Hansa offers structured reflective practice groups and reflective supervision for mediators based on the RPII Reflective Debrief® model. These sessions create a safe, non-judgmental space to: examine puzzling cases, uncover hidden assumptions, and strengthen presence, resilience, and trauma-informed mediation skills.
Ideal for:
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Mediators seeking ongoing reflective debrief practice.
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Teams wanting restorative conflict resolution and peer-supported learning.
Learn more here: https://www.reflectivepracticeinstitute.com
"What we bring to conflict begins with what we understanding what we bring to the room."
Mediatior
Mindfulness-Based Conflict Support and Culturally Responsive Mediation
Transforming conflict into connection through mindfulness and equity. Hansa provides mediation services for organizations and families using a mindfulness-based approach to mediation that is culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and grounded in principles of equity and belonging.
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Mediation services for organizations and community settings.
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Understanding-based mediation and conflict intervention services.
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Restorative conflict resolution and youth restorative practices for schools and community programs.
“Together, we co-create a process that transforms conflict into connection.”
Mindfulness Teacher
Mindfulness in Conflict and Training for Professionals
Hansa integrates mindfulness, equity, and compassion into every conversation. With over two decades of meditation practice, she offers mindfulness training for professionals, including mindfulness for lawyers and mindfulness-based conflict resolution workshops that teach presence, de-escalation, and reflective pause as core conflict tools
“Awareness and connection begin with the pause between breath and response.”
Attorney
Conflict Resolution Attorney and Specialized Advocacy
As an attorney mediator, Hansa brings legal experience to trauma-informed mediation and youth conflict resolution training. Her background in juvenile dependency and multidisciplinary advocacy informs mediation that is trauma-aware, equity-centered, and legally informed.
Services include:
• Conflict resolution attorney consultations for family and organizational cases.
• Mediation for families and child-welfare matters with attention to safety and fairness.
"Advocacy is rooted in understanding, awareness, and a sensitivity to the interests of the whole person."
Mission
To serve with compassion and integrity—offering mediation, law, and mindfulness practices that unite mind, body, and spirit. To create pathways where all people, across color, gender, ability, and socio-economic backgrounds, have equal access to resources, justice, and understanding.
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION
Equity and belonging are at the heart of Hansa Patel’s work. Guided by mindfulness and compassion, she creates culturally responsive, equity-centered spaces where every person—across race, culture, gender, ability, religion, and lived experience—feels seen, heard, and valued. Her trauma-informed and restorative approach also invites authentic connection, supports equity-based conflict resolution, and helps communities deepen understanding through mindful communication and belonging-centered mediation.
“Equity begins with how we listen, connect, and create space for all voices.”
WHAT IS SUCCESS?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Feedback
“Hansa Patel is a particularly dedicated and compassionate teacher and I have had the opportunity to observe her teaching and teach alongside her. Her intelligence, sensitivity and commitment to teaching shine through in everything she does. She has my highest recommendation.”
Gary Friedman
Founder, Center for Understanding in Conflict
Contact
To contact the Law and Mediation Office of Hansa R. Patel, please call (415) 562-4453, send an email, or fill out the contact form below: