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Our Courses:
Level I Collaborative Team Practice
Level II Collaborative Team Practice
Moving From Collaborative Law to Collaborative Team
The 40% Rule
Sharpening The Tools
Level I Collaborative Team Practice
In two days, we will teach you a revolutionary new Collaborative Team approach to assisting families through divorce which will not only change your client’s lives but your life too.
The Level I Interdisciplinary Collaborative Team Course is intended for Mental Health Professionals, Lawyers, Divorce Financial Specialists, Accountants and others who are interested in becoming Collaborative Team Practice professionals.
 The Details…
Collaborative Team Practice is a cost effective, dignified approach to divorce. Clients work with a team of lawyers, divorce coaches, a parenting coach and a financial specialist. At the outset, the clients sign a participation agreement in which they agree they will not go to Court. Instead, they agree to work with their team to find a resolution to their core concerns. Not only is an agreement reached, the parties also learn how to effectively parent their children through the process, the financial consequences of various settlement options and new communication skills. We teach you this model.
- We will take you through a case, step by step
- Provide you with the documents and tools you need
- Teach you what you need to cover with clients during the first meeting
- Show you how four way meetings work
- Explain communication protocols among team members and debriefing
- Share our new client-friendly participation agreement (worth the price of admission itself)
- Detail the role of each professional so you will know how you fit into the team and what the others will be doing
- We will teach using a variety of methods including lecture, partner-shares, group-shares, role plays, break out groups and the provision of written materials
- You will be ready to begin practicing as part of a Collaborative Team
- This course may qualify for up to 16 hours of Continuing Education for lawyers, financial specialists and mental health professionals
- You will develop the sound bites you need to market and launch your practice
- You will be granted a Certificate of Participation upon completion
You don’t want to miss this course.
| This was indeed the best training I have ever received in the area of law – given the way it was delivered – retaining info was much greater as it was repetitive and FUN!!! |
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Level I Participant – Oct 2006
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Level II Collaborative Team Practice
In three days, building on Level I, we will teach you the advanced skills you need to practice as a CTP professional.
The Level II Interdisciplinary Collaborative Team Course is intended for those Collaborative Team Practice professionals who have already completed The Divorce Team’s Level I and want to develop their practice skills to an advanced level. Level I offered by other professionals does not teach the same interdisciplinary team model we teach. Our Level II builds on our Level I and is an advanced, skills-oriented course. As a result, you would be severely disadvantaged if you have not taken The Divorce Team Level I course before taking our Level II course.
 The Details…
- Use case study, role plays and practice to learn the skills you need in a safe, constructive, learning environment
- Learn communication skills to facilitate productive dialogue and understanding
- Discover how to help clients uncover their core concerns
- Understand each professional’s roles and responsibilities
- Use advanced strategies to move through impasse, emotional blocks and other obstacles to settlement
- Learn about constructive inter-professional dialogue and debriefing
- Understand the emotional stages of divorce
- Concentrated training specific to each professional’s role including tools and techniques
- Marketing skills and templates to increase your case load
| I think you did a great job of getting participants enrolled in the process and keeping us engaged. I also think that I will remember the information that you taught us due to the active, ‘hands on’ nature of the training and repetition of information. Your enthusiasm and passion for the process was contagious. |
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Maria Baier - Coach
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Moving from Collaborative Law to Collaborative Team
In one day, we will assist you to move from the traditional Collaborative Law model to the cutting edge Collaborative Team approach. This Course is intended for Collaboratively trained Lawyers. Collaborative Team Practice is more cost efficient, and utilizes the specialized talents and skills of the other professionals. This allows you to focus on what you do best- give legal advice, assist through interest based negotiation, and create legally binding agreements.
The Details…
Clients choose collaborative lawyers, who assist them in putting together a team, selecting from divorce coaches, a parenting coach and a financial specialist. They agree to work with their team to find a resolution to their core concerns. Not only is an agreement reached, the parties also learn how to effectively parent their children through the process, understand the financial consequences of various settlement options and learn new communication skills. We teach you this model.
- We will share our new client-friendly participation agreement (worth the price of admission itself)
- We will take you through an overview of the Collaborative Team process
- Provide you with the documents and tools you need
- Explain communication protocols among team members and debriefing
- Detail the role of each professional so you will know how you fit into the team and what the others will be doing
- We will teach using a variety of methods including lecture, partner-shares, group-shares, role plays, break out groups and the provision of written materials
- You will be ready to begin practicing as part of a Collaborative Team
- We will help you develop the single most important marketing concept to launch or expand your Collaborative practice
- You will be granted a Certificate of Participation upon completion
You don’t want to miss this course. If you have a minimum of a Level 1 Collaborative training course, then register today.
The 40% Rule
"The 40% Rule" An issue which arises frequently is the impact on child support if the children are with each parent for more than 40% of the time. Understand the value of solutions which take into account the core concerns of the children and parties using an interdisciplinary team approach.
Sharpening The Tools
We discuss over two dozen practical techniques you can use in negotiations to help you get at the core concerns. For example, we review, distinguish and sharpen your ability to reframe, paraphrase and mirror back to clients. This course is intended for lawyers, financial specialists, family coaches, parenting coaches, therapists, real estate agents and anyone else who is involved in communications and negotiations (which is pretty much everyone). There are no prerequisites to take this course. It will change how you conduct every conversation because you will have over 24 tools and techniques to overcome impasse and discover core concerns.
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