samic

accompaniment and mediation

COS’E’ IL SAMIC?

Formación

Feliz y Santa Navidad

El equipo SAMIC quiere felicitar a todos en estas fiestas navideñas y pide una oración por todas las familias en dificultad, en especial por aquellas que son atendidas por este Servicio de Acompañamiento y Mediación.

¡Que tengáis una Feliz y Santa Navidad!

is SAMIC

What

We are an instrument of diakonia, protection, care and accompaniment for couples in serious crisis situations and broken families.

This Service was created by the Cardinal Archbishop D. Antonio Cañizares to serve the whole Archdiocese of Valencia. We are currently located at the headquarters of the Metropolitan Ecclesiastical Tribunal of Valencia.

We use mediation in the fields of law, psychology and theology as the main legal instrument to assist marriages in crisis.

SERVICES WE OFFER

ACCOMPANIMENT

  • Spiritual: where we deal with difficulties or problems of a moral nature caused by the crisis or breakdown of a marriage.
  • Legal: where a professional lawyer, with accredited conciliatory character, attends to doubts of a legal nature.
  • Psychological: where we help users when intense emotional discomfort is detected, or family relationship difficulties derived from the break-up. In addition, we have a specific section aimed mainly at dealing with the problems of children arising from marital crises or break-ups, with experts in this field.

CANONICAL FAMILY MEDIATION

It is a voluntary, confidential and impartial process, in which, through an accredited mediator, the people involved try to reach agreements to solve their conflict. At all times we assume that the family is never broken, we try to improve the relationship and communication of its members. We especially use this service in those cases in which the spouses are immersed in a process of rupture to try to achieve, in the first place and if possible, a peaceful reconciliation, and in any case, to use it to benefit also the children of these couples, trying to reach agreements.

«In the
diocesan Curia
of Valencia,
they always
received me
with speed,
humanity and
competence»
SAMIC legal accompaniment user
In the diocesan Curia of
Valencia, they always
received me with speed,
humanity and competence
SAMIC legal accompaniment user

WE DO

What

Help families who are in pain because of:

– How their break-up, separation process or marriage annulment has unfolded.

– Feelings of deceit or disappointment about the other party.

– Feelings of failure or guilt about the truncated life project.

– Isolation from the Christian community or the reception of sacraments.

– Family conflict on issues related to the education or upbringing of common children.

The people we serve are in conflict and have approached us for help in achieving reconciliation or requesting information in the process of canonical marriage annulment or other family processes.

OUR GOAL

To care for, accompany and support the faithful in their pain in this time of difficulty. In addition, we encourage agreements and solutions that mediate between opposing parties, helping, if possible, to achieve reconciliation and to generate an accompaniment that promotes family cohesion.

TEAM

team

96 315 82 01
vicariajudicial@archiv

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team

963 158 208
samic@archivalencia.es

  • 963 158 208
team

963 158 208
samic@archivalencia.es

  • 963 158 208

Mr. Vicente Nadal Ruiz

General Manager

team

963 158 208
samic@archivalencia.es

  • 963 158 208
«The priest who
accompanied me
helped me
to understand
my situation.
I can only
be grateful»
SAMIC spiritual accompaniment user
The priest who
accompanied me helped
me to understand
my situation.
I can only be grateful
SAMIC spiritual accompaniment user

METHODOLOGY OF WORK

WITH CHRISTIAN HOPE

Trying to transmit to families in conflict and/or crisis, the confidence that they are being cared for by the Church, which is Mother and helps her children in a special way in these moments of difficulty.

MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH

We are a team of professionals specialized in family conflicts: psychologists, lawyers, mediators, priests, doctors, who act together in response to the request that is made of us. We share the problems and refer to the specialists needed, carrying out an exhaustive follow-up of the different cases until they are completed.

SPEEDY ATTENTION

We act as quickly and efficiently as possible, assessing each case individually.

COLLABORATION WITH THE DIOCESAN FAMILY MINISTRY

We aim to be an additional instrument to help the actions carried out within our Diocese in relation to family crises.

Our extensive experience in intervening in this type of conflict can help the pastoral agents in each particular Church to anticipate and prevent break-ups by providing the appropriate means so that these situations do not recur in the future.

«The fact of
being a religious
service allows for
greater empathy
with people
facing critical
situations such
as nullity»
SAMIC psychological accompaniment user
The fact of being
a religious service allows
for greater empathy with
people facing critical
situations such as nullity
SAMIC psychological accompaniment user

EXPERT COURSE
IN ACCOMPANIMENT AND MEDIATION

The Accompaniment and Canonical Mediation Service of the Archdiocese of Valencia has been providing the Expert Course in Accompaniment and Mediation for several years. This training has become a national reference and more and more Spanish Dioceses are incorporating agents of pastoral action with families, including professionals from the Ecclesiastical Courts, into this training.

In its fifth edition, the course, which takes place online, was attended by 75 pastoral workers, married couples and professionals from 12 Spanish dioceses.

It is a course aimed at people who, because of their concerns, profession or vocation of service, want to help families who come to the Ecclesiastical Courts or family pastoral services of the bishoprics of Spain. The training enables them to attend to marriages and families in conflict, with or without children, with the tools of mediation and accompaniment.

If you are interested in participating in the next training course, you can apply for registration at the following email address: samic@archivalencia.es

experiencias sobre el curso

Actualidad

«I am deeply
grateful for your
treatment. God
willing we can
turn our lives
around and return
to being the family
we should never
have stopped
being»
SAMIC psychological accompaniment user
I am deeply grateful
for your treatment.
God willing we can
turn our lives around
and return to being
the family we should never
have stopped being
SAMIC psychological accompaniment user

actualidad

«El SAMIC es necesario, vemos el drama de muchísimas familias que vienen y nos cuentan, incluso escuchamos a padres angustiados porque se separan sus hijos, y nos surge la pregunta de cómo ayudarles». Con estas palabras Vicente Ribas Prats, Obispo de Ibiza, explicaba la necesidad de erigir canónicamente en su diócesis el Servicio de Acompañamiento y Mediación Intrajudicial Canónica (SAMIC).

«Doy gracias a todos los que colaboráis en el servicio especializado del SAMIC por vuestra labor de formación y sobre todo por hacer un anuncio explícito del Evangelio de la familia, como decía San Juan Pablo II, y por apostar de una forma tan determinada por la reconciliación de las relaciones familiares sin que esto suponga una injerencia evidentemente en la administración de justicia». Mons. Enrique Benavent, durante la apertura del Año Judicial del Tribunal Eclesiástico de Valencia.

COS’E’ IL SAMIC?

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CONTACT

We are in

Avellanas Street, 12, 2nd floor

C.P. 46003 – Valencia (Spain)

Phone: +34 963.158.208 / +34 619.420.973

email:

samic@archivalencia.es