John Hoelle

As a father, I’m driven to help parents build a stable home for children under any circumstance. I don’t come from a family of divorce, but I am in a second marriage myself, and people close to me carry lifelong wounds from a traumatizing childhood divorce.

I began my career as a documentary film editor, learning the power of persuasive storytelling. When law later called on my analytical strengths, it felt natural to shape life’s raw material into clear arguments for a different audience: judges.

My role as a Conscious Family mediator brought together a thrilling mix of challenges: the intellectual contest of law practice, the creative puzzle of workable family arrangements, and the intuitive work of facilitating dialogue and healing rifts.

Trained in the Collaborative Law model, I have practiced family law exclusively in Colorado since joining the bar: first as a judicial clerk for several judges at the Boulder District Court, then as an associate for an attorney-mediator and former judge. I am an alumnus of the University of Colorado Law School (Law Review); the National Institute of Trial Advocacy; the Colorado Bar Association 40-hour mediation training and Advanced Mediation Training; and the Colorado Collaborative Divorce Professionals Level I Collaborative Law training. I volunteer for the Boulder County “Ask-an-Attorney” program, the Denver Bar Association’s Metro Volunteer Lawyers clinic, and the Boulder County Legal Services pro se divorce clinic.

To bring family law mediation to more people, I mentor and supervise non-lawyer mediators through my firm.

For over a decade I have joined healing processes and resolved conflicts in my intentional living co-housing community. I also mediate difficult conversations in other communities, between members or for leadership.

To stay centered, I practice vedic meditation and yoga, and perform professionally as a musician.