Your Upspring
For when you're separating and you want to be the one making the decisions about your future.
A free weekly email that draws on negotiation psychology, behavioural economics and my years in the mediation room to show you what's happening and what to do about it.
"Your email are a calm little coaching session in my inbox. No empty fluffy stuff, just high leverage ideas I feel good about using."
Most separation advice tells you what to do
Very little of it changes how you see what's happening.
A Friday deadline, a four-word text, an offer that arrives with “take it or leave it” attached. Each one feels like a fact you have to react to, and each one looks quite different once you understand the psychology underneath it. That’s what Your Upspring is for. Each week I take one real moment from a separation, show you what the research says is going on, and help you think through what you want to do about it. You come away seeing your situation more accurately and the decisions about your future stay yours.
You need a fresh approach and smarter thinking. Quiet power is built in the in-between. When you slow down, plan your strategy and move with intention.
I'm writing these emails for you
I'm Marnie Cooper
I’m a Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner and Mediator who helps people not just navigate separation, but manage it with thoughtful intention and dignity.
My offering blends insights from studying psychology, negotiation and conflict resolution with hands-on experience mediating and coaching successful people facing gut-wrenching heartache. Before mediation, I spent decades negotiating high-stakes projects and securing multi-million dollar funding in Australia and internationally, so I know how it feels and what it takes to make decisions and conduct complex negotiations under pressure when you can’t afford to get them wrong.
Your Upspring is where I bring it all together. Each issue draws on negotiation psychology, behavioural economics and what I see and do in the mediation room, and turns it into a way of thinking you can use in your own separation, with a steady voice beside you while you do.
If you’re looking for guidance that honours your intelligence and your emotional reality, I’d love you to join me.
What you'll get inside Your Upspring
- A new way of reading the moments that throw you;
- Negotiation strategies for subtle influencing without aggression in property or personal discussions;
- Reinvention ideas to design your new chapter with intention rather than reacting to someone else's plans;
- Emotional insight to stay composed under pressure without shutting down or giving in;
- Evidence-backed insights from psychology, negotiation theory, and conflict resolution for you to apply;
- Financial reframes to think ahead and negotiate with self-assurance;
- Communication strategies to express your needs clearly and confidently while managing difficult dynamics;
- Reduced overwhelm and time-wastage by thinking in systems.
