Voices
Interviews and broadcasts that helped shape how the AHAVA method is heard outside the room. Excerpts have been translated and lightly condensed.
Caesarea News
Motty Danos, formerly the spokesperson of the Caesarea Development Corporation, developed a mediation method called AHAVA, which he now leads with separating parents and families in crisis.
Interview with Livnat Florentin
An eight-year body of work from Caesarea: a mediation method, a public benefit company called Healing in a Word, and five published books on family. The aspiration of AHAVA is described, modestly, as world peace.
Yedioth Ahronoth notice (2020)
A public notice published during the lockdowns, offering subsidised and contributed mediation hours to families in conflict. Many used it to renew contact with children they had not spoken with for years.
Channel 13 · Morning show
Motty Danos was hosted on Channel 13's morning show, together with his ex-wife Dana and their daughter Ronna, to speak about the AHAVA method - how families in crisis can rebuild dialogue, and why mediation belongs at the centre of how Israel handles separation.
Magazine interview · Rotem Gutman
Motty Danos - formerly the spokesperson of the Caesarea Development Corporation - developed the AHAVA mediation method, which he now leads with separating couples and families navigating profound crisis. A long-form profile on the man, the work, and the conviction that almost any family conflict can be resolved within hours, not years.
Photography: Orly Apel
Motty Danos · in the Rotem Gutman interview
So where are you steering AHAVA mediation, in the end?
"To pull out of children's minds the painful childhood memories that would otherwise be burned into their bodies and their souls for years - and in their place, to help their parents create gentle childhood memories for them. It is doable, the moment you understand the principles of the method. Among them: if I choose to hurt the person I share parenthood with, I am almost certainly hurting the ability of the children we brought into the world to grow up to be happy, whole, and good people."
Featured · Israeli Weekly, Los Angeles · 2025
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Public appearances
Beyond the mediation room, Motty is regularly invited to speak with children, parents, and educators - sharing the AHAVA method where families and futures are actually being shaped.
Beit AHAVA for the Family · Seminar series 2026
Eight years of guiding mediation processes with parents, the privilege of developing a verbal language that withstands reality at the moment of crisis, detailed across eight books and dozens of precedent-setting agreements - brought us to the founding of Beit AHAVA for the Family, in memory of Rachel Yuval Danos. A home for couple, family, and community processes.
Through 2026 we are running a new seminar series on partnership, parenthood, and family mediation - three seminars each month, 36 across the year. Every seminar runs over four weekly sessions of two and a half hours, in Hebrew, live on Zoom, open to Israelis at home and abroad - with the option to attend anonymously.
Series I
A new chapter in partnership
For parents, second-chapter couples, and long-term partners.
Series II
Couples in crisis - and the conversation about separation
For couples in confusion, conflict, or considering parting.
Series III
A first chapter - pre-marriage
For young couples, the engaged, and pre-wedding audiences.
The aim is shared value. A new language. A turning point inside families - for generations.
Partner with Beit AHAVAIn their own words
“We came in not speaking. We left having agreed on how to raise our daughter. I still don't know how four hours undid four years.”
A father · separated parents, Pardes Hanna
“For the first time since the divorce, our son saw us laugh in the same room. That was the moment I understood something had really changed.”
A mother · two children, ages 7 and 11
“I came ready to fight. I left holding a piece of paper we had written together, and a quiet I hadn't felt in years.”
A mother · after a long custody dispute
“My ex-wife and I hadn't spoken in eighteen months. By the end of the session we were planning our daughter's bat mitzvah - together.”
A father · Caesarea
“We work with verbal formulas, so that emotion can be understood through reason. Whoever catches it can experience a 180-degree shift, sometimes in a single moment.”
Motty Danos · founder
“Our principal vision is to make family courts unnecessary, except in extreme cases. A four-year legal fight is resolved here in four hours.”
Motty Danos · founder
Shalom Bayit · podcast
Shalom Bayit is the foundation’s public broadcast project: daily live conversations on parenting, partnership, mediation, and the inner life of a home. The ambition is for it to grow into a dedicated channel, broadcasting around the clock on questions of family, relationships, and children.
Until then, episodes are released on the foundation’s social channels - YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook - with a small, attentive audience that grows quietly, week by week.