Developing a Child-Centered Practice Training program

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Developing a Child-Centered Practice: Innovative Approaches to Working with Separating Parents

This intensive training program for Family Law Attorneys, Family Mediators, Collaborative Professionals, Coaches and all Divorce Professionals is the first-of-its-kind program designed to help family law practitioners bring the kids to the forefront. Regardless of where you are on the spectrum of experience, this program will have valuable skills and tools to increase your effectiveness in working with families in transition. So often, creating a parenting plan becomes all about getting an agreement but truly helping families to restructure goes far beyond the calendar.

Combining the expertise of one of the leading parenting experts in the country with insights from two of the top collaborative and family mediation attorneys, this three-day training will help attorneys, mediators and other family and divorce professionals to shift the way they work with parents in order to cut the conflict and help them create a new family paradigm that stands the test of time.

The training program is broken down into three separate modules which you can take all at once or only sign up for the portions that add to your toolkit or fit your schedule!

All three days will be resource-intensive with take-away materials and actionable tools that will be easily and immediately integrated into your practice and work with clients!
 

Day One: The Emotional Process of Divorce for Parents and Kids  April 8th,   9am-1:30pm PT (12pm-4:30 ET) 

Tools, Skills and Topics we will cover:

• Strategies professionals can use to get coparents focused on kids instead of each other.
• Skills for engaging with parents and helping clients get unstuck. 
• A comprehensive understanding of the impact of stress on decision-making and coparenting. 
• An overview of the different ways parents and children manage the stages of loss.
• How reactions to loss can create misconceptions and escalate conflict.
• Dynamics of healthy and unhealthy coping for parents and children.

Day Two: Age and Developmental Stages + Parenting Plans April 22nd,  9am-1:30pm PT (12pm-4:30 ET) 

Tools, Skills and Topics we will cover:

• Understanding the “expected” developmental needs of children at each age and stage.
• How age and various developmental stages impact the way children react to divorce.
• Key issues coparents need to consider at each stage.
•  How these play into parenting plans.
• Information and strategies for creating a child-centered parenting plan.
• Parenting time vs. Parenting Responsibility. 

Day Three: The Four CORE Tenets of Successful Co-Parenting April 29th, 9am-1:30pm PT (12pm-4:30 ET) 

Tools, Skills and Topics we will cover:

• Identifying early-stage challenges for coparents.
• Why logic and reason doesn’t work and what to do instead.
• What moves children from at risk to resilient.
• Skills for navigating issues using a child-centered approach.
• Shifts that help coparents manage differences constructively.
• The critical components of redefining family life for children after the split.
• How to engage parents with support around specialized issues of domestic violence, mental health, and more.
• Incorporating tech resources, tools and mediation skills into your practice to help coparents.

Each day’s program will incorporate the use of film, case studies, training, discussion and more and participants will receive templates, forms, resources and more for immediate use in their practice!

This training will be held twice in 2021 with the first three sessions being held in April and the then repeated in September so take the modules you can in April and finish up in September