About

In 2003 Salt Creek Associates began helping people resolve the conflicts in their families, workplaces and churches.  

Mediation
We began with mediation often specializing in family conflicts such as child custody, child support and marriage dissolution.   This is important work and we continue it today, but we learned something along the way. We learned that much of conflict is rooted in unmet needs, expectations and desires.   We call this stress.  

Conflict
We found that by addressing, reducing and eliminating stress that the conflicts were much more likely to resolve.   Less stress meant less conflict. We also learned that some people are very attracted to conflict and that they at the same time experience a great deal of stress.  Sadly, they are generally unable to manage their stress or resolve their conflicts effectively.   They engage in conflict repeatedly.  They don't know another way.    Almost 20% of the populations has significant traits of high conflict people.   They account for more than 70% of significant, destructive conflicts.  They account for most litigation.  They account for most false accusations and acts of perjury.   Any effective conflict resolution must account for high conflict people.


Jim Calhoun
Jim Calhoun is a certified mediator with advanced certificate in alternative conflict resolution from University of California, Irvine.   He has mediated disputes in court and through private mediation.   He has mediated workplace disputes, child custody and child support disputes, probate disputes, neighborhood disputes and marriage dissolutions. Jim is a relationship coach and has been trained in relationship dynamics and family systems.   He incorporates relationship dynamics when helping clients with conflict resolution.  He is a certified as a parenting coach and gives seminars for pasrents, single parents, blended families and parents going through divorce.    

Jim is an expert on working with high conflict people.   Building upon specialized training, Jim is able to assist clients through the most difficult relationships and complex, damaging conflicts.   He has helped members of law enforcement, physicians, clergy, business executives and many others navigate through their relationships with high conflict people.

Jim is also a wellness coach focusing on the impact of stress.  Certified as a physical trainer, wellness coach and anger management coach, he is able to address the many ways stress impacts the lives of his clients.  Jim also incorporates elements of spiritual formation in his coaching as clients seek to transform their lives.

Contact Jim at:
Jim@saltcreekassociates.com
949.682.8103
213.986.6867