Central Coast Resolutions

Specialties

Mediation — Neutral and confidential mediation for small claims and collections, landlord/​tenant & residential disputes (unlawful detainer), business and workplace issues, interpersonal conflicts, and divorce mediation.

Conflict Coaching — Working with individuals or groups to engage with conflict positively and constructively.

Faith Conciliation — Working with faith communities, clergy, and lay leadership to find resolution to issues in a manner that is in line with faith teachings.

Facilitation — Supporting group efforts in businesses or in communities to communicate effectively on specific issues or tasks in a constructive manner.

History

Established in 2013.

Central Coast Resolutions was started with the goal of assisting people, businesses, and communities find resolution to their disputes without the emotional and monetary costs of litigation.

Through mediation parties can find agreement and resolution without painful and damaging escalation of a dispute. Businesses can maintain critical relationships and avoid negative exposure, families can care for their elders or their children without divisive legal actions, and people can live civil lives in safer communities.

Meet the Business Owner

William S.

Business Owner

William Shelby is a Conflict Resolution Professional specializing in Facilitative Mediation and Conflict Coaching in Monterey County. He has conducted hundreds of mediations covering small claims, landlord/​tenant, divorce, workplace, community, civil harassment, and interpersonal disputes.

Bill serves as the Court Mediation Coordinator for the Superior Court in Monterey County through the Mandell Gisnet Center for Conflict Management at the Monterey College of Law. He is a divorce mediator for the FAM Project at the Conflict Resolution Center of Santa Cruz (CRC), and a panel mediator for the NEIGHBOR Project at MGC.

Bill has received a diversity of advanced Mediator and Coaching training from MGC, CRC, and Phoenix Strategies, Inc., in Colorado Springs, CO. In 2008 he earned a graduate certificate in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (S-​CAR) at George Mason University, in Arlington, VA.