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Beyond Words Conference
Amsterdam 26 – 28 May
2016
Program 26 May 2016
16.00 – 18.00
Informal opening of the conference during a reception where you can meet
and greet your colleagues.
Program 27 May 2016
08.30 – 10.00
Registration / Welcome at the conference
10.00 – 10.30
Opening of the conference
10.30 – 11.30
Opening lecture by Steven Pont
Steven Pont
Opening lecture Amsterdam CP 2016
Steven Pont. Everything Steven does revolves around two
subject matters: (developmental) psychology and the
system theory. In 1992 he graduated from the University of
Amsterdam as a developmental psychologist and in 2002 he
graduated from the NISTO as a system therapist. Later he
also became a certified mediator (NIP) and Socratic
chairman (FIP). The aspects that form the foundation
primarily are: the (developmental) psychology, in which behaviour is described by
the individual itself and the system theory, which focuses more on the importance of
the social environment.
11.30 – 13.00
Lunch
13.00 – 16.30 (with 15 minute coffee break)
Workshops session 1:
Kim Costello
Oops, I Meant To Say – Why Words Matter In Collaboration
27 and 28 May 2016
Advanced
When clients enter collaboration, they are most likely
feeling exposed and defensive; therefore, the words collaborators use can greatly
impact them. Words used in collaboration are particularly important because they aid
in moving people from one side of an issue to another. This presentation highlights
the importance of words utilized in collaboration.
After completing this workshop presentation, you will be able to:
• Recognize how clients’ perceptions affect their understanding of what YOU say.
• Develop an awareness of your personality and communication tendencies
• Learn how to listen more effectively
• Express yourself in a more clear and specific way while avoiding “red flag” words
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Kim E. Costello, Psy.D., LMHC, FAPA, DAPA, ,BCPC, is a psychotherapist with
many years of experience and training helping families, couples and children work
through times of transition in their lives.
Dr. Costello’s deep commitment to seeing children, adults and families reach their
full potential for happiness and success has led her to offer her specialized
knowledge and expertise in the area of collaborative law, where she serves as a
neutral mental health professional, working with parties to navigate the divorce
process and emerge stronger and better. While helping individuals, parents and
children during this trying emotional time, Dr. Costello assists and supports in a
variety of capacities, including the creation of parenting plans; development of
communication and problem solving skills; dispute resolution services; facilitation of
visitation and financial discussions; personality and parenting assessments; and,
other therapeutic and psychological services as needed. As a neutral mental health
professional, her role is to help manage and guide divorcing couples and/or families
through the transition.
Dr. Costello has received training as a Florida Supreme Court Mediator and a Court
Appointed Parenting Coordinator. Additionally, Dr. Costello is a member of the
International Association of Collaborative Professionals and the Association of Family
and Conciliation Courts. She is trained in the most current models for family
mediation and collaborative law. Dr. Costello also educates professionals to guide
and inform them in collaborative practices by providing workshops for continuing
education purposes. Additionally she is certified as a guidance counselor (Education
#738148) and a License Mental Health Counselor (MH7394).
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really
stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through
this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. You must do the thing you
think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Karin Walker
How to best collaborate with the other side’s lawyer
27 May 2016
Advanced
How to develop the best possible working relationship
with the other lawyer with whom you will be
collaborating; what pitfalls to watch out for and how
to deal with them; how best to work together to keep
the process on track and achieve a satisfactory
outcome for the couple.
Learning objectives:
To know how to get the best out of the process by establishing the best possible
relationship with the solicitor acting for the other person.
Curriculum Vitae
Karin Walker runs her own niche family law practice – KGW Family Law assisting
clients in resolving their disputes via constructive communication. Karin qualified as
a mediator with Resolution in 1997; as a collaborative lawyer in 2004 and as an
arbitrator in 2012. She is a member of Resolution – currently on National committee
and chair of the DR committee.
Marc Sheridan
Developing Your Collaborative Practice Beyond Divorce
27 and 28 May 2016
General Interest
Attendees will learn about the use of Collaborative Law
beyond divorce. Mr. Sheridan will present on techniques
and concepts necessary to grow CL in your area, and
how to communicate the benefits of CL to prospective
clients. The presentation will illustrate an
interdisciplinary approach to resolve an employment
discrimination case.
Learning objectives:
1. An understanding of the application of Collaborative Law to a wide variety of
disputes;
2. An education on how to explain the benefits of CL in the commercial setting;
3. Learn techniques to present CL to prospective clients;
4. Gain knowledge on strategies to grow CL in your area.
Curriculum Vitae
Marc O. Sheridan, Esq., Mr. Sheridan has represented clients for more than fifteen
years concerning employment discrimination claims, restrictive covenants, deferred
compensation plans, reductions in force, negotiation of severance agreements, and
executive compensation issues. He has litigated claims under the ADEA, ADA,
FLSA, Title VII, the New York State Human Rights Law, and the New York City
Administrative Code in state and federal trial and appellate courts. Mr. Sheridan
regularly appears in FINRA and AAA arbitrations on behalf of securities industry
professionals regarding unpaid bonuses, promissory notes, and contractual disputes.
Mr. Sheridan frequently writes, lectures, and is consulted on employment law
developments and dispute resolution techniques for both human resources
professionals and business groups and owners in the New York City metropolitan
area. Mr. Sheridan has been quoted frequently on employment law developments
including social media issues in the employment context by Bloomberg BNA’s
Workforce Strategies and other publications.
In addition to his employment law experience, Mr. Sheridan is also a mediator with
the Southern District of New York’s mediation panel as an employment mediator, and
the New York Supreme Court, Westchester County Commercial Division and Civil
Panels. Mr. Sheridan is a member of the New York State Bar Association ADR
Section and Collaborative Practice Committee, the American Bar Association Dispute
Resolution Section, the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP),
and the Global Collaborative Law Council.
Rita Pollak & Linda Solomon
Difference as Opportunity:
exploring our differences to
deepen our connections
27 and 28 May 2016
General Interest
Shared assumptions can smooth communication and create connections.
Misunderstandings about which assumptions are shared, and what they mean, can
lead to conflict. Using heightened skills and practice, we will explore language, roles,
norms and values, as used by the family system, and the collaborative Team.
Learning objectives:
Participants will:
1. learn to recognize assumptions that clients and colleagues rely on,
2. develop awareness of how relying on assumptions impacts the collaborative
process,
3. learn new skills, taking into account the value and danger of assumptions, to
create better outcomes
Curriculum Vitae
Rita S. Pollak is an experienced collaborative family law attorney, trainer, mediator
and facilitator. She was President of the International Academy of Collaborative
Professionals (IACP) in 2006-2007 and was the co-founder and first President of the
Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council. She has presented at every annual IACP
Forum since 2003, co-chairing the Forum in Boston in 2004. As President of IACP,
Attorney Pollak spoke at the First European Collaborative Law Conference in Vienna,
Austria in 2007 and presented at the Second European Collaborative Law
Conference in Cork, Ireland in 2008.
She has been on the faculty of collaborative trainings since 2000, in Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, Maryland, Ohio, Florida, Missouri, Maine, New Mexico, Oregon,
Washington, Oklahoma, Canada, and the Netherlands where she and Dr. Cathy
Heenan were invited on five occasions to offer Basic and Advanced trainings to over
250 professionals. They have also created a DVD series Collaborative Practice ‘In
Action’ which takes a case through the collaborative process, from interviewing a
potential client, to a very effective problem-solving model.
Attorney Pollak is Chair of the Leadership Council at the Center for Community
Dialogue, in Tucson, Arizona, an organization dedicated to fostering skillful
discussion of complex issues in the community. She also volunteers for the
Community Justice Board, a first-time youth offender diversion program.
Linda Solom on is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Licensed Chemical
Dependency Counselor and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She has been in
private practice in Dallas, Texas for 30 years. Her work with individuals, couples and
families has focused on relationship issues and addictive behaviors. She is actively
involved in the collaborative team approach, working as a Neutral Mental Health
Professional and was instrumental in the development of the role. She is also trained
as a Mediator and a Parenting Coordinator.
She is a member of the Lone Star Collaborative Training Team and serves as a
mentor to other mental health professionals in various parts of the world. She is a
former board member of IACP and The Collaborative Law Institute of Texas. She
served as Co-Chairman of CLI-TX Collaborative Conference in 2010 and was
Chairperson of the conference the following year. In addition, she has served on the
planning committee for the conference several times. She is the 2015 recipient of
The Gay Cox Collaborative Spirit Award, in Texas, given to those who are
passionately committed to transforming the conflict resolution process.
Linda continues to be committed to helping collaborative practice spread throughout
the world with particular focus on the team approach. She is passionate about her
profession having a clear understanding of the role on a collaborative team and
helping the other professions understand how mental health professionals will
contribute to the process.
Patricia Mallon and Jemima Brookman
Words are walls, words are windows
27 and 28 May 2016
General Interest
This is a workshop about how we communicate. It looks at interpersonal
communication and identifies some of the linguistic and paralinguistic theories
behind aspects of our communication styles. It provides an insight into how
interpersonal communication might be improved both for the collaborative
practitioner and for the clients.
Learning objectives:
I want to explore how interpersonal communication worksand how it is affected by
both our body language and verbal language and what we need to know in order to
make it more affective, so that we have a better understanding of ourselves and our
clients.
Curriculum Vitae
I am a lawyer of 30 years, a Mediator and Restorator Justice Practitioner. I cofounded the ACP in Ireland, ENCP in Europe and served on the board of AICP. I have a
lot of experience of Collaborative Practice particularly in the area of Interdisciplinary
Team Work. I am Honorary French Consul for Cork and have an interest in the area of
language and how that affects communication.
Francesca King & Daniela Stalla
Collaborative practice on trial
27 May 2016
General Interest
Through the paradox of putting
Collaborative Practice on trial
participants will reflect on the
resistances to CP in different
communities – they will interactively
find through their own experience and that of their collegues and clients some
indictments against CP and then prosecution and defence will debate on each. Like a
real trial it will be an open challenge, with no holds barred!
Learning objectives:
Discover a new tool for promoting CP in your community. Understand that only
through a lively confrontation between the pros and cons of CP, you can find the
right stregth and the right words to help CP grow.
Curriculum Vitae
Francesca King is a family lawyer in Milano, Italy. She the current President of
AIADC (Associazione Italiana Professionisti Collaborativi) of which she is a member
since its foundation in 2010. She is a member of the board of ENCP and has served
in IACP’s European Committee in 2013-2014. Francesca is a frequent lecturer in
Italy on family law issues for attorneys and other professionals, also with regard to
Collaborative Practice. She has also contributed in providing introductionary training
in Collaborative Practice in Italy, together with Susan Hansen, Diane Diel and Shireen
Meistrich. Francesca has participated in numerous U.S. and European conferences on
Collaborative Practice and is committed to supporting the growth of collaborative
practice in Italy and Europe.
Daniela Stalla is a family lawyer in Torino, Italy. She is member of the board of
ENCP. She is a current member of the IACP’s Practice Groups Task Force and has
served in IACP’s European Committee in 2014. She is also member of the board of
AIADC (Italian Association of Collaborative Professionals) and of the regional board
of AIAF (Italian Association for Family and Minors). Daniela is a frequent lecturer on
family law issues for attorneys and financial experts. She has also contributed in
providing training in Collaborative Practice in Italy. Daniela has participated in
numerous U.S. and European conferences on Collaborative Practice and is committed
to supporting the growth of collaborative practice in Italy and Europe.
Marsha Pinedo
27 May 2016
General Interest
Curriculum Vitae
Villa Pinedo
Villa Pinedo is a foundation raised by Marsha Pinedo a
child therapist, that helps children whose parents are
divorced with the problems they are confronted with
after the divorce. Children of divorced parents share
their experiences , emotions and help each other to
handle problems after the divorce of their parents. They
also make adults realize what is in the hearts and heads
of their children.
Villa Pinedo works with children and young adults to change the behavior and
conduct of parents all in the best interest of their children. The people of Villa
Pinedo will tell something about their work and experiences.
Yuval Berger
An emerging new discipline
27 and 28 May 2016
Advanced
Pay attention: this is a two-day lecture. This means
that once you apply for the lecture on the 27th of
May, you are obliged to apply for the lecture on the
28th of May as well.
The area of conflict resolution, particularly in the context of separating families, is
becoming a growing niche in the practice of many mental health professionals.
Collaborative coaches, child specialists and mediators and family lawyers often find
themselves at the forefront of the familial conflict utilizing skills and strategies
borrowed from the practice of conflict resolution. These often include mediation,
negotiation, consensus building, problem solving, meeting facilitation, caucusing and
communication consultation.
While it is, of course, both required and essential that we recognize the key
differences between the professions of psychology and conflict resolution, it is, at
the same time, necessary that we recognize their similarities and cooperate in
developing creative new techniques based on sound psychological theories.
During this day, collaborative professionals will have the opportunity to deepen their
understanding and skills of the emotional road map and the neurophysiological
fundamentals of conflict and resolution processes into practical, hands-on
techniques.
Learning objectives:
1. Techniques for responding uniquely to each negative emotion; i.e., fear,
anger, shame, jealousy, pain and grief;
2. The skills for effectively addressing clients’ unique style of protest behaviour
during conflict;
3. Ways of discovering what people think or want subconsciously, and of
bringing them into conscious awareness;
4. Better techniques for option generating, and how to help client reach a
deeper levels of resolution, including forgiveness and reconciliation.
Curriculum Vitae
Yuval Berger (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Yuval brings with him 25 years of clinical experience as a relationship and child
therapist with special expertise in supporting couples through the dissolution of their
intimate relations. Over the years he has practiced as divorce coach, child specialist,
family therapist, and a trainer.
Yuval joined the Vancouver BC Collaborative group in 2002, and since then has been
an active member supporting and promoting the interdisciplinary team approach. He
is an associate of the Collaborative Center in Vancouver, Canada, which is a joint
private venture of family lawyers and mental health professionals all practicing
Collaborative Law.
The International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP) elected Yuval to its
Board of Directors for the 2012-15 term. Yuval has taught basic, and advanced
Interdisciplinary CP courses in Canada, England, Scotland, US and Israel. He presented
in numerous IACP forums in North America and in Europe and taught in the IACP
Institute in the US and Australia. When offering advance training, Yuval focuses on
expending professional knowledge about the possibilities for couples to move from
intimate relationship into a co-parenting. He also brings his knowledge and
experience in using attachment theory to facilitate a better understanding of
couple’s experience through their separation.
Anne Dick & Craig Samson
The alchemy of interdisciplinary practice
27 May 2016
Advanced
An interactive workshop which through a mixture of
structured roleplay, lively demonstration and teaching
will provide a very enjoyable way of learning how to
unleash the transformative energy of interest based
interdisciplinary work and enhance the experience of
Collaborative Practice for clients and practitioners alike.
Training Team from Consensus, Scotland
Anne Hall Dick and Craig Samson for lawyer input
Myra Eadie, Psychotherapist, for coach/family consultant input
Kevin Mackenzie, IFA, for financial neutral input
The learning objectives are as follows:
Understanding the benefit of interest based Interdisciplinary work through
demonstration and interactive work
Learning the practicalities of interest based Interdisciplinary work through
structured role play and demonstration.
Gaining confidence in promoting the use of interest based Interdisciplinary
work by having an understanding of what each discipline adds to the process
The materials include the following:
"Quickstart Guide" - a concise overview of the steps in an Interdisciplinary
case and an example of an Interdisciplinary Participation Agreement
Handouts covering the core skills of acknowledging, summarising, clarifying,
mutualising, question forms and reframing and in relation to the impact of
stress and loss and the importance of maintaining a focus on interests
throughout
Craig is the Convenor and Anne is the training Convenor for Consensus. Myra is a
very experienced psychotherapist in Glasgow who has been involved in Collaborative
work and training for some time now. Kevin Mackenzie is a financial adviser from
Aberdeen, a member of Consensus and is experienced in Collaborative Practice.
A generic role play scenario is included as part of the course materials.
The workshop will follow broadly the following format:
Introduction and interactive exercise to highlight experientially the emotional
and practical as well as legal elements involved in separation
Curriculum Vitae
Anne Dick is a Partner and family law solicitor at Family Law Matters Scotland in
Glasgow. She is specialised in Family Law for 40 years. She is accredited by the Law
Society of Scotland as a specialist in Family law and as a Family Law Mediator. She
can help separating couples tackle child and financial issues using mediation. After
training in Collaborative Family Law in London, she became one of the original four
founder members of the organisation for Collaborative practitioners in Scotland,
Consensus, for whom she is Training Convenor. She is an Associate Member of the
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a committee member of FLAGS, the Family
Law Arbitration Group (Scotland).
She was the founder Chairman of the Family Law Association in 1989 and the first
Convenor of CALM, the association of Accredited Family Mediators in Scotland.
Along with fellow trainers and the support of CALM and Consensus she is involved in
running a training Portfolio each year to allow lawyers and non lawyers acquire the
skills and knowledge to become Collaborative Practitioners and in the case of the
lawyers, mediators.
“I recognise that the process separating couples use to sort things out will influence
what kind of post separation family they have and I am very keen to help that
transition be as constructive as possible in the particular circumstances.”
Craig Sam son: Training does not have to be hard work. It should be fun and
memorable. Craig is committed to delivering training that is both. And hopefully
memorable for the right reasons!
Craig is a Family Lawyer from Scotland and is Chair of the Consensus, the national
association of Collaborative Practitioners in that beautiful country. He has delivered
training at the IACP Institute in Milan and was front of stage for much of the
European Collaborative Conference in Edinburgh in 2012.
16.30 – 22.00 (with travel time to museum)
Reception in the Van Goghmuseum with drinks and finger food. During the
reception you can visit the museum.
Program 28 May 2016
08.30 – 09.00
Registration / Welcome at the conference
09.15 – 12.15 (with 15 minute coffee break)
Workshops session 2:
Kim Costello
Oops, I Meant To Say – Why Words Matter In
Collaboration
27 and 28 May 2016
Advanced
When clients enter collaboration, they are most likely
feeling exposed and defensive; therefore, the words
collaborators use can greatly impact them. Words used
in collaboration are particularly important because they aid in moving people from
one side of an issue to another. This presentation highlights the importance of words
utilized in collaboration.
After completing this workshop presentation, you will be able to:
• Recognize how clients’ perceptions affect their understanding of what YOU say.
• Develop an awareness of your personality and communication tendencies
• Learn how to listen more effectively
• Express yourself in a more clear and specific way while avoiding “red flag” words
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Kim E. Costello, Psy.D., LMHC, FAPA, DAPA, ,BCPC, is a psychotherapist with
many years of experience and training helping families, couples and children work
through times of transition in their lives.
Dr. Costello’s deep commitment to seeing children, adults and families reach their
full potential for happiness and success has led her to offer her specialized
knowledge and expertise in the area of collaborative law, where she serves as a
neutral mental health professional, working with parties to navigate the divorce
process and emerge stronger and better. While helping individuals, parents and
children during this trying emotional time, Dr. Costello assists and supports in a
variety of capacities, including the creation of parenting plans; development of
communication and problem solving skills; dispute resolution services; facilitation of
visitation and financial discussions; personality and parenting assessments; and,
other therapeutic and psychological services as needed. As a neutral mental health
professional, her role is to help manage and guide divorcing couples and/or families
through the transition.
Dr. Costello has received training as a Florida Supreme Court Mediator and a Court
Appointed Parenting Coordinator. Additionally, Dr. Costello is a member of the
International Association of Collaborative Professionals and the Association of Family
and Conciliation Courts. She is trained in the most current models for family
mediation and collaborative law. Dr. Costello also educates professionals to guide
and inform them in collaborative practices by providing workshops for continuing
education purposes. Additionally she is certified as a guidance counselor (Education
#738148) and a License Mental Health Counselor (MH7394).
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really
stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through
this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. You must do the thing you
think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Randy Cheek
Understanding Impasse
28 May 2016
Advanced
One of the most challenging moments in Collaborative
Practice is experiencing an impasse. Both the parties and
the professionals become anxious that an agreement may
be unattainable. The roots of impasse are broader than
the immediate manifestation and are often the
culmination of several paths of dysfunction that have evolved during the case.
This workshop will explore six themes for examining impasse to better understand its
causes, to increase the possibility of avoiding impasse, and to address it when it
occurs. We will delve into realistic expectations, clear communication, professional
team functioning, motivation, the parties’ capacities, and understanding the
situation.
Learning goals:
1. Summarize the frequent patterns of Impasse;
2. Describe the interplay of cognitive, behavioral and emotional components of
impasse;
3. Explain how the Six Stages of Change model informs us about when impasse
might surface.
Curriculum Vitae
Randy Cheek is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has been in private
practice in Petaluma,CA,USA since 1983. He received an MA in Clinical Psychology
from Antioch University in San Francisco. His specialties have included family
systems therapy, couples therapy and Ericksonian hypnosis. Since 2001, he has
been active in the Collaborative Process in Sonoma County. He was president of the
Board of Directors of the Collaborative Council of the Redwood Empire (CCRE) and a
president of the Board of Directors of CPCal. He has taught workshops on
Collaborative Practice throughout California as well as in Florida, Vancouver, Canada;
Munich, Germany and Hong Kong. He has presented at AFCC, the IACP Forum and
the CPCal Celebrations. Additionally Randy specializes in co-parenting counseling and
mediation regarding children’s issues in divorce.
Sherry Slovin & Victoria Smith
Collaborative Advocacy: It
Begins With Hello!
28 May 2016
General Interest
This workshop will focus on
the real challenges of
Collaborative advocacy,
including how to help clients
meet needs and goals, satisfy
the needs and goals of the other client, work with the tensions surrounding the law
and concepts of fairness, maintain relationships with team members, and hold true
to Collaborative principles.
Learning Objectives:
Greater awareness of the nuances and challenges of Collaborative Legal
Representation/Advocacy
Curriculum Vitae
Sherri Goren Slovin is a Board Certified family relations lawyer, mediator and
conflict resolution trainer. She was selected by her peers as Best Lawyers Cincinnati
Family Mediator of the Year Cincinnati Family Lawyer of the Year, a distinction given
to one lawyer per city, per year. Sherri began mediating in 1987 and working in the
Collaborative Practice model in 1997 andbelieves that with skilled assistance, most
family matters, even those involving deeply held differences, can be resolved outside
of court. She has committed a significant part of her professional life to practicing
and teaching alternative dispute resolution.
Sherri is a past President of the Board of the International Academy of Collaborative
Professionals (IACP). She has published numerous articles on Collaborative Practice
and negotiation and has provided workshops and training in the United States,
Canada, Europe, Israel, and Australia. Additionally, Sherri is the lead trainer for
Beyond Civility, a non-profit engaged in creating public dialogue events and providing
communication and dialogue skills workshops to small groups of selected community
leaders, elected officials and representatives of the media.
Victoria Sm ith is a family lawyer in practice over 30 years. For nearly 15 years she
has confined her work to Collaborative Practice, Mediation and training. She is a
member of Chestnut Collaborative Solutions, a group of 11 independent
Collaborative Professionals in Toronto practicing in two locations. She is an
accredited comprehensive mediator.
Victoria's life work is to help her clients resolve conflict wisely and with dignity, and
to support an evolution in the legal profession from adversarial advocacy to conflict
resolution advocacy. She has successfully resolved hundreds of mediations and
collaborative cases. Committed to the growth of Collaborative Practice and
settlement advocacy, she provides workshops for collaborative professionals
regarding CP, negotiation and advocacy across North America and internationally.
She is an Adjunct Professor of Collaborative Lawyering at Osgoode Hall Law School.
She is co-author of Collaborative Family Law, Another Way to Resolve Family
Disputes and numerous articles on Collaborative Practice. Victoria is a member of the
Board of Directors of Collaborative Practice Toronto and a former a former member
of the Board of Directors of the IACP.
Rita Pollak & Linda Solomon
Difference as Opportunity:
exploring our differences to
deepen our connections
27 and 28 May 2016
General Interest
Shared assumptions can smooth communication and create connections.
Misunderstandings about which assumptions are shared, and what they mean, can
lead to conflict. Using heightened skills and practice, we will explore language, roles,
norms and values, as used by the family system, and the collaborative Team.
Learning objectives:
Participants will:
1. learn to recognize assumptions that clients and colleagues rely on,
2. develop awareness of how relying on assumptions impacts the collaborative
process,
3. learn new skills, taking into account the value and danger of assumptions, to
create better outcomes
Curriculum Vitae
Rita S. Pollak is an experienced collaborative family law attorney, trainer, mediator
and facilitator. She was President of the International Academy of Collaborative
Professionals (IACP) in 2006-2007 and was the co-founder and first President of the
Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council. She has presented at every annual IACP
Forum since 2003, co-chairing the Forum in Boston in 2004. As President of IACP,
Attorney Pollak spoke at the First European Collaborative Law Conference in Vienna,
Austria in 2007 and presented at the Second European Collaborative Law
Conference in Cork, Ireland in 2008.
She has been on the faculty of collaborative trainings since 2000, in Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, Maryland, Ohio, Florida, Missouri, Maine, New Mexico, Oregon,
Washington, Oklahoma, Canada, and the Netherlands where she and Dr. Cathy
Heenan were invited on five occasions to offer Basic and Advanced trainings to over
250 professionals. They have also created a DVD series Collaborative Practice ‘In
Action’ which takes a case through the collaborative process, from interviewing a
potential client, to a very effective problem-solving model.
Attorney Pollak is Chair of the Leadership Council at the Center for Community
Dialogue, in Tucson, Arizona, an organization dedicated to fostering skillful
discussion of complex issues in the community. She also volunteers for the
Community Justice Board, a first-time youth offender diversion program.
Linda Solom on is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Licensed Chemical
Dependency Counselor and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She has been in
private practice in Dallas, Texas for 30 years. Her work with individuals, couples and
families has focused on relationship issues and addictive behaviors. She is actively
involved in the collaborative team approach, working as a Neutral Mental Health
Professional and was instrumental in the development of the role. She is also trained
as a Mediator and a Parenting Coordinator.
She is a member of the Lone Star Collaborative Training Team and serves as a
mentor to other mental health professionals in various parts of the world. She is a
former board member of IACP and The Collaborative Law Institute of Texas. She
served as Co-Chairman of CLI-TX Collaborative Conference in 2010 and was
Chairperson of the conference the following year. In addition, she has served on the
planning committee for the conference several times. She is the 2015 recipient of
The Gay Cox Collaborative Spirit Award, in Texas, given to those who are
passionately committed to transforming the conflict resolution process.
Linda continues to be committed to helping collaborative practice spread throughout
the world with particular focus on the team approach. She is passionate about her
profession having a clear understanding of the role on a collaborative team and
helping the other professions understand how mental health professionals will
contribute to the process.
Patricia Mallon & Jemima Brookman
Words are walls, words are windows
27 and 28 May 2016
General Interest
This is a workshop about how we communicate. It looks at interpersonal
communication and identifies some of the linguistic and paralinguistic theories
behind aspects of our communication styles. It provides an insight into how
interpersonal communication might be improved both for the collaborative
practitioner and for the clients.
Learning objectives:
I want to explore how interpersonal communication worksand how it is affected by
both our body language and verbal language and what we need to know in order to
make it more affective, so that we have a better understanding of ourselves and our
clients.
Curriculum Vitae
I am a lawyer of 30 years, a Mediator and Restorator Justice Practitioner. I cofounded the ACP in Ireland, ENCP in Europe and served on the board of AICP. I have a
lot of experience of Collaborative Practice particularly in the area of Interdisciplinary
Team Work. I am Honorary French Consul for Cork and have an interest in the area of
language and how that affects communication.
Kevin Mackenzie
Embracing a multi-discipline approach - the role of the Financial Neutral
28 May 2016
General Interest
An insight into the benefits of introducing a Financial Neutral as part of a multidiscipline approach.
In this inter-active session Kevin Mackenzie will demonstrate his own experiences
using a case study.
Learning objectives:
1. To give Family Lawyers a better understanding of the benefits of introducing
a Financial Neutral;
2. To highlight the benefits of a multi-discipline approach;
3. Demonstrate how Financial Neutrals fit into the process and meetings;
4. Demonstrate cash-flow modelling and the pros and cons of such tools.
Curriculum Vitae
Kevin Mackenzie completed the basic Collaborative training in 2010 and advanced
training in 2011. Since then Kevin has worked with many Family Lawyers in Scotland
on both Collaborative and non-Collaborative cases.
Kevin is a Financial Planner and Pension Transfer Specialist.
Katja Ziehe
Collaborative Practice & Martial Arts - two sides of the
same coin?
28 May 2016
General Interest
We normally use just our brains and intellect to
"understand" our world. But there is a level beyond
words: the world of experience by movement and
touch. Experience a different kind of understanding of
collaboration in a team through easy exercises that express the pacifistic philosophy
of Kung Fu.
Learning objectives:
1. understand collaborative practice (cooperation instead of litigation; working in
a team) on a level beyond words: through experience with the body (instead
of the brain).
Curriculum Vitae
Katja Ziehe, born in Germany 1967. She studied journalism and law in Munich and
moved to Switzerland in 2002.
Partner at Ziehe & Reetz Attorneys-at-Law in Küsnacht Zurich as lawyer
(certified specialist SBA family law), mediator, collaborative lawyer,
professional coach
Certified martial arts instructor for Yong Chun Quan Kung Fu
Practical experience as collaborative lawyer since 2006
Presentations and workshops as well as publications on collaborative practice
mainly in Switzerland since 2006
Since 2012 president of the Swiss collaborative practice organization
“collaborative law & practice clp Schweiz”
Fritz Schwarzinger
Coexistence of Differences – Working with the timeline
28 may 2016
General Interest
Sometimes collaboration practitioners think that the
most important fact in doing a collaborative case is to
find space in which the conflict parties agree. Instead of
this, or at least in addition to this attitude we can try to
look for as many differences as possible and to bring
this differences into a coexisting relationship. To do this
in a very elegant and effective way we can use the
systemic timeline to demonstrate the development of
the relationship between the conflict partners at the beginning, at the point of
separation, when the case has been settled and – very important – also in the
imagination some years into the future after the solution had been found.
Learning objectives:
1. To use the different narratives of the clients about their history, in the work
for solutions and recognition in a very effective and elegant way.
Curriculum Vitae
Friedrich (Fritz) Schwarzinger
Born April 1, 1960 in Gmünd/Austria
1980-1986 Study of jurisprudence, University of Vienna
1986 Degree as doctor for Jurisprudence
Since 1994 independent lawyer in Wels and Vienna
1999 certificate as psychological advisor (systemic theory)
Since 1999 practice in settings with individuals, couples and groups
Certificate in systemic and family reconstruction (www.forumsystemaufstellungen.at)
2004 registration as mediator.
Wide experience in divorce mediation, conflicts of generations, including
trainings, instructions and lectures.
Instructing Collaborative Law for the Austrian Lawyers and Mental health since
2004.
Member of the Viennese CL-group since 2007
Foundation of the CL-group in Upper Austria 2011.
Yuval Berger
An emerging new discipline
27 and 28 May 2016
Advanced
Pay attention: this is a two-day lecture. This means that
once you apply for the lecture on the 28th of May, you
are obliged to apply for the lecture on the 27th of May as well.
The area of conflict resolution, particularly in the context of separating families, is
becoming a growing niche in the practice of many mental health professionals.
Collaborative coaches, child specialists and mediators and family lawyers often find
themselves at the forefront of the familial conflict utilizing skills and strategies
borrowed from the practice of conflict resolution. These often include mediation,
negotiation, consensus building, problem solving, meeting facilitation, caucusing and
communication consultation.
While it is, of course, both required and essential that we recognize the key
differences between the professions of psychology and conflict resolution, it is, at
the same time, necessary that we recognize their similarities and cooperate in
developing creative new techniques based on sound psychological theories.
During this day, collaborative professionals will have the opportunity to deepen their
understanding and skills of the emotional road map and the neurophysiological
fundamentals of conflict and resolution processes into practical, hands-on
techniques.
Learning objectives:
1. Techniques for responding uniquely to each negative emotion; i.e., fear,
anger, shame, jealousy, pain and grief;
2. The skills for effectively addressing clients’ unique style of protest behaviour
during conflict;
3. Ways of discovering what people think or want subconsciously, and of
bringing them into conscious awareness;
4. Better techniques for option generating, and how to help client reach a
deeper levels of resolution, including forgiveness and reconciliation.
Curriculum Vitae
Yuval Berger (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Yuval brings with him 25 years of clinical experience as a relationship and child
therapist with special expertise in supporting couples through the dissolution of their
intimate relations. Over the years he has practiced as divorce coach, child specialist,
family therapist, and a trainer.
Yuval joined the Vancouver BC Collaborative group in 2002, and since then has been
an active member supporting and promoting the interdisciplinary team approach. He
is an associate of the Collaborative Center in Vancouver, Canada, which is a joint
private venture of family lawyers and mental health professionals all practicing
Collaborative Law.
The International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP) elected Yuval to its
Board of Directors for the 2012-15 term. Yuval has taught basic, and advanced
Interdisciplinary CP courses in Canada, England, Scotland, US and Israel. He presented
in numerous IACP forums in North America and in Europe and taught in the IACP
Institute in the US and Australia. When offering advance training, Yuval focuses on
expending professional knowledge about the possibilities for couples to move from
intimate relationship into a co-parenting. He also brings his knowledge and
experience in using attachment theory to facilitate a better understanding of
couple’s experience through their separation.
Annelies Hendriks & Annelies Verhoeff
'I am a Dragon' - beyond the words of children
28 may 2016
General interest
Children can say surprising
things about their experiences
in a divorce; the parents have
difficulties to understand well what their children mean, because of their own
emotions. In this workshop we will investigate the words of children and what could
be beyond them, what parents hear and what you as a CP-professional could do to
support parents (and children) in the process of coming to understand each other.
Learning objective:
1. to help them to see beyond the words of children,
2. to become aware of the meaning of these words
3. to know how parents perceive these words of their children in the light of
their divorce
4. to learn how to support parents in realizzing what their children really could
mean
Curriculum Vitae
Annelies Hendriks: developmental psychologist, mediator, coach/ child specialist
in CP.
Annelies Verhoeff (LL.M) has been working as an attorney in The Hague since
1988.
She practised in the field of Company Law and Labour Law before focussing on
Family Law.
Annelies specializes in mediation and collaborative divorce proceedings. Her prior
studies, Dutch Law and Pedagogic at the University of Utrecht, as well as her
position as a teacher for advocate-mediators have proved to be invaluable in finding
a balance between the emotional and legal aspects in a divorce for her clients.
Lunch
13.30 – 14.15
Lecture by Jeanne Gaakeer
14.15 – 17.00 (with 15 minute coffee break)
Workshops session 3:
Tina Sinclair
READINESS AUDITING IN TEAM COLLABORATION-Are
YOU Ready?
28 May 2016
General Interest
Are YOU ready?
For REAL success in collaboration, this workshop will
stress the importance of using the full interdisciplinary
team, from the outset of the case. And using a team which is READY. But this in
itself is not enough. Real success also requires readiness at the level of the individual
professional AND the business structure within which the cases are to be managed.
Case material, roleplay, self evaluation checklists and active debate will all be a part
of this workshop. One of the founders of the first centre of Interdisciplinary Team
Collaboration MELCA, in Melbourne Australia will share some of the secrets of their
success. Participants will be challenged to evaluate their strengths and weaknesses.
They will then plan how to build their competencies in collaborative work so that
they can Get Ready.. Get Set.. Go..!
Learning objectives:
1. To understand that Readiness for Collaboration is a multidimensional concept.
We are presenting 3 aspects: Individual, Team & Business.
2. To understand the importance of insight and self evaluation to be adequately
prepared for collaborative casework.
3. To understand the focus on client care to be successful.
4. To accept the importance of a well planned and organised business model
5. To never underestimate the critical importance of the competency and trust
relationships required in the professional team.
Curriculum Vitae
Dr Tina Sinclair has been actively involved in the Collaborative movement since its
inception during the late 1990’s in western Canada (Calgary, Alberta) and later from
2004 to the recent present in Australia. She co-founded Melbourne Collaborative
Alliance (MELCA) the world’s first single site fully interdisciplinary Collaborative
Centre. As a psychologist and mediator, her skills as a practitioner, trainer, mentor
and supervisor have been used widely in the United Kingdom & Austria, as well as
Canada, New Zealand, and her native Australia. Active case work as the neutral
Family Consultant and Chair and facilitator of collaborative meetings, developing and
adjusting the MELCA model, training & mentoring less experienced staff, have kept
her busy in the collaborative field. Cases have been many – wide and varied in
difficulty, including many high conflict, complex cases, which involved addictions,
domestic violence, no contact orders, personality disorders and multi generations.
Tina is now back in Calgary where she has launched Peacemakers For Families, her
ADR Centre for families in conflict.
Petra Slingenberg
PRACTICING HOLISTIC, PROBLEM SOLVING LAW
28 May 2016
General interest
Holistic Practice, w elcom e to the HUB!
Holistic Law can be described as the practice of law as a healing profession or as a
spiritual practice. For most of the lawyers it is an approach that focuses on the
whole person and the whole of the problem as a way of finding more healthy and
sustainable solutions to legal problems. In this workshop you get an introduction of
the concept of holistic law movement by explaining the history and the benefits of
holistic practice, both for clients and professionals.
Learning objectives:
Primary goal of Holistic Practice (HP) is to help individuals reestablish their
connection to a felt sense of being within the context of challenging legal
proceedings. Professionals create a legal strategy for them that is more likely to
produce positive and potentially transformative results, for all involved. They learn
how to avoid the downward spiral and how to guide clients to reconnect with their
essential goodness.
Curriculum Vitae
Slingenberg advises and coaches people going through divorce and acts as their
council in legal procedures. She's a mediator (Mfn/vFAS), fellow IAML and
collaborative practitionr, 80% of her work is solved by any form of an alternative
dispute resolution. Slingenberg is a lecturer at the Dutch Bar Ass., she's founder of
the first Divorce Café (2011) and has published her vision in magazines.
Marc Sheridan
Developing Your Collaborative Practice Beyond Divorce
27 and 28 May 2016
General Interest
Attendees will learn about the use of Collaborative
Law beyond divorce. Mr. Sheridan will present on
techniques and concepts necessary to grow CL in
your area, and how to communicate the benefits of CL
to prospective clients. The presentation will illustrate an interdisciplinary approach to
resolve an employment discrimination case.
Learning objectives:
1. An understanding of the application of Collaborative Law to a wide variety of
disputes;
2. An education on how to explain the benefits of CL in the commercial setting;
3. Learn techniques to present CL to prospective clients;
4. Gain knowledge on strategies to grow CL in your area.
Curriculum Vitae
Marc O. Sheridan, Esq., Mr. Sheridan has represented clients for more than fifteen
years concerning employment discrimination claims, restrictive covenants, deferred
compensation plans, reductions in force, negotiation of severance agreements, and
executive compensation issues. He has litigated claims under the ADEA, ADA,
FLSA, Title VII, the New York State Human Rights Law, and the New York City
Administrative Code in state and federal trial and appellate courts. Mr. Sheridan
regularly appears in FINRA and AAA arbitrations on behalf of securities industry
professionals regarding unpaid bonuses, promissory notes, and contractual disputes.
Mr. Sheridan frequently writes, lectures, and is consulted on employment law
developments and dispute resolution techniques for both human resources
professionals and business groups and owners in the New York City metropolitan
area. Mr. Sheridan has been quoted frequently on employment law developments
including social media issues in the employment context by Bloomberg BNA’s
Workforce Strategies and other publications.
In addition to his employment law experience, Mr. Sheridan is also a mediator with
the Southern District of New York’s mediation panel as an employment mediator, and
the New York Supreme Court, Westchester County Commercial Division and Civil
Panels. Mr. Sheridan is a member of the New York State Bar Association ADR
Section and Collaborative Practice Committee, the American Bar Association Dispute
Resolution Section, the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP),
and the Global Collaborative Law Council.
Kathryn S. Lazar, Micki Mcwade & Jessica L. Lazar
Collaborative Rescue Squad: Emergency Interventions
28 may 2016
Advanced
This workshop is designed to
help the experienced
Collaborative Divorce
professional dig deeper into the
causes and cures for crises that
arise during the Collaborative
Divorce process. We will
identify what client and team member characteristics and behaviors make cases hard
and identify and learn tools to address these problems.
Learning objectives:
1. Participants will identify specific behaviors in divorcing clients that raise red
flags about the client's ability to successfully utilize and complete the
Collaborative process.
2. Participants will identify specific behaviors amongst professional Team
members that will affect the potential success or failure of a collaborative
case.
3. Participants will learn specific tools for application/intervention when
collaborative divorce cases threaten to implode/explode.
Curriculum Vitae
Kathryn S. Lazar, ESQ . has been in practice for over thirty years, focusing her
practice on family law. An early advocate of divorce mediation, she founded both a
community-based mediation program and a divorce mediation program in the early
‘80s. Kathryn currently focuses her practice on interdisciplinary collaborative divorce
practice and divorce mediation.
One of the founders of the Collaborative law movement in the Hudson Valley,
Kathryn helped establish an interdisciplinary practice group in 2002. Kathryn is a
past (2002–2007) and present (2013–2015) co-chair of the Hudson Valley
Collaborative Divorce and Dispute Resolution Association. She has provided Basic
Interdisciplinary Training and Advanced Interdisciplinary Training in the Hudson
Valley, for the New York Association of Collaborative Professionals in New Jersey,
New Hampshire, Connecticut and Maryland. Kathryn has been on the faculty of
numerous national conferences since 1983, including presentations at IACP Forums,
AFM and ACR, and at the European Collaborative Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland
in June 2012. Kathryn served on the IACP Practice Group Development Committee
for two years, and served as the moderator for the February 2011 teleconference
“Public Education and Marketing: How to Build Your Practice Community”, sponsored
by the IACP. She recently served on the IACP Task Force regarding Training
Standards. For additional information about Kathryn, visit
www.lazarandschwartz.com or contact Kathryn at klazar@lazarandschwartz.com.
Micki Mcw ade, LMSW is a Collaborative divorce coach, psychotherapist, author,
blogger, parent educator and a basic and advanced Collaborative trainer with a
practice in New York that focuses on divorce issues. She has been on a co-chair and
member of the executive committee of the Hudson Valley Collaborative Divorce and
Dispute Resolution Association and a Director of the New York Association of
Collaborative Professionals. She is a member of the Hudson Valley Collaborative
Divorce Training Consortium, has been on the faculty of numerous national and
international conferences including the IACP Forums in San Diego, Toronto,
Minneapolis, San Francisco, Edinburgh, and the Women’s Healing Conferences,
sponsored by the Hazelden Foundation, the Betty Ford Center and the Caron
Foundation.
Her books include Getting Up, Getting Over, Getting On: A Twelve Step Guide to
Divorce Recovery, Daily Meditations for Surviving a Breakup, Separation or Divorce,
Healing You, Healing Me: A Divorce Group Leader’s Guide and Moving Towards
Mastery in Collaborative Divorce. Micki also is a blogger for the Huffington Post
Divorce section and as a divorce expert at YourTango.com. For further information
about Micki, please visit mickimcwade.com and collabdivorcecoaching.com or
contact Micki at mmcwade@me.com.
Jessica L. Lazar, MA, Doctoral Candidate, Psy.D. Wright Institute of Psychology
Jessica earned her master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from the Wright Institute,
Berkeley, California in June 2012, and is completing her dissertation for her
doctorate in clinical psychology from the Wright Institute. She has worked clinically
with a broad range of client populations, including adults in recovery from substance
addiction, intimate partner violence survivors, patients managing chronic illness,
children and families. She is currently an Independent Evaluator at McLean Hospital in
Boston, MA, administering assessments with youth and parents. Her doctoral
dissertation entitled Seeking Psychological Help During Litigated, Mediated, and
Collaborative Divorce: A Novel Application of Contact Theory explores her primary
interest is in stigma toward psychological help seeking, particularly during intense life
transitions such as divorce. Having recently completed data collection on divorcing
adults, she has been synthesizing information for the collaborative community,
including the reasons clients select collaborative divorce over litigation or mediation,
primary identified stressors associated with the divorce, and client satisfaction with
their divorce team.
Marc Weiss
IACP Ethics Café for Advanced Practitioners
28 May 2016
Advanced
Collaborative matters can create unique ethics
concerns for lawyers, mental health practitioners, and
financial professionals. The Ethics Café is a special
program that allows Collaborative practitioners to
engage in in-depth small group discussions about
these questions.
The Ethics Café will have an inviting and informal atmosphere so practitioners can
maximize their opportunities to gain new ethics insights from each other. The focus
of the Ethics Café will be to explore the range of considerations that might be
applied to these ethics questions, thereby helping to bring and spread the highest
level of integrity and competence to our Collaborative Practice cases.
The IACP Standards Committee will supply several sophisticated ethics questions for
discussion. Practitioners may also bring their own questions. All advanced
Collaborative practitioners are invited to participate and be part of what will be an
interesting and lively discussion. To help ensure a sophisticated conversation based
on experiences, only those who have completed a minimum of 15 Collaborative
cases are invited to attend.
IACP and ethics
IACP is the worldwide leader in fostering excellence in Collaborative Practice. A sound
base of ethical practices and principles is essential to the sustainability and growth
of Collaborative Practice. By adopting ethical standards, and standards for
Collaborative Practitioners, cases, and trainings, IACP has laid a foundation for
ensuring the use of a consistent definition of Collaborative Practice worldwide and
set quality standards that clients can expect whenever they select Collaborative
Practice.
Learning objective:
Getting a deeper understanding about approaching some of the ethical questions
that arise in Collaborative Practice.
Curriculum Vitae
J. Mark Weiss helps divorcing and separating clients resolve conflict so they can
move forward. Mark works to help his clients reach reality-based agreements that
are consistent with their needs, values, and goals.
Mark is full-time collaborative divorce attorney and mediator, and a Fellow of the
American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. In 2005, he received the 'Attorney of
the Year' award from the Wash. State Bar Assn. Family Law Section. He is called a
'Super Lawyer' by Washington Law and Politics Magazine. Mark is particularly skilled
in cases involving complex property and financial issues, including businesses, and in
complex parenting matters. Mark has taught and written extensively on community
property, business, and other family law issues. He has served on boards and
committees to improve justice, and trains attorneys in collaborative law. Besides
family law, he has practiced law in diverse areas, including construction, contracts,
real property, business, probate and estate planning, bankruptcy, and aviation. The
Washington Supreme Court does not recognize certification of specialties in the
practice of law and the awards and recognitions listed are not requirements to
practice law in Washington.
IACP Ethics and Standards for Collaborative Practice
One way IACP enhances excellence in Collaborative Practice is by establishing and
upholding ethical and practice standards to provide guidance to practitioners. All
Collaborative practitioners are asked to become familiar with IACP’s Standards and
Ethics, which address many of the unique challenges and opportunities created by
Collaborative Practice. These include:
- Definition of Collaborative Practice
- Ethical Standards for Collaborative Practitioners
- Minimum Standards for Collaborative Practitioners
- Interim Minimum Standards for Introductory Collaborative Practice Trainings and
Introductory Interdisciplinary Collaborative Practice Trainings
- Interim Minimum Standards for Collaborative Trainers
The IACP website prominently features these standards on the home page, as part
of the effort to educate the public and professionals. Get your booklet with the
most recent versions of the Standards at www.collaborativepractice.com
Kevin Mackenzie
Embracing a multi-discipline approach - the role of the
Financial Neutral
28 May 2016
General Interest
An insight into the benefits of introducing a Financial
Neutral as part of a multi-discipline approach.
In this inter-active session Kevin Mackenzie will
demonstrate his own experiences using a case study.
Learning objectives:
1. To give Family Lawyers a better understanding of the benefits of introducing
a Financial Neutral;
2. To highlight the benefits of a multi-discipline approach;
3. Demonstrate how Financial Neutrals fit into the process and meetings;
4. Demonstrate cash-flow modelling and the pros and cons of such tools.
Curriculum Vitae
Kevin Mackenzie completed the basic Collaborative training in 2010 and advanced
training in 2011. Since then Kevin has worked with many Family Lawyers in Scotland
on both Collaborative and non-Collaborative cases.
Kevin is a Financial Planner and Pension Transfer Specialist.
Sofie Ann Bracke
The influence of non-verbal communication
28 May 2016
General interest
One of our tools in mediation is non-verbal communication. It is essential to be able
to understand what clients are showing, but also to be aware of your own body
language. In this short workshop you will learn the basics of body language, which
will help you to deepen your understanding of others as well as yourself.
Learning objectives:
To become more aware of their own body language, and to pay more attention to
what other people are showing.
Curriculum Vitae
Sofie-Ann’s diverse training and work experience empowers her to coach her clients
on several levels, including physical health, concentration, perception,
communication, and effective self-presentation.
She has a degree in law from the University Ghent (1987) and a degree in European
Law from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (1988). She studied Chinese Medicine
and Energy exercises with Dr. Shen Hongxun at the International Buqi Institute (from
1990 onwards) and has a diploma from the London College of Traditional
Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and clinical training at The Ho Chi Minh City
Acupuncture College in Vietnam (1997). She trained in Non-Violent Communication
with Pat Patfoort at De Vuurbloem (from 2005 onwards), and completed the
Medation Training at the University of Antwerp (2011). In the same year she also
studied Body Language at the Center of Body Language in Antwerp.
Sofie-Ann worked as a legal advisor from 1987 to 1991. She then moved to London.
From 1992 to the present she has organised and taught training programs of
Taijiwuxigong for groups of up to 200 people in the UK, Belgium and Holland.
Taijiwuxigong, the Qigong system developed by dr Shen Hongxun emphasises the
importance of good posture, using the body efficiently to feel more resilience and
flexibility on the physical, mental and emotional levels. Sofie-Ann is a practicing
mediator, empowering her clients to avoid confrontations in court by negociating
resolutions to legal disputes. She is a certified trainer and coach in Body Language at
the Center for Body Language in Antwerp, where she has developed a specialised
course in Power Moves for individuals and organisations.
Sofie-Ann offers courses and seminars tailored to the needs of the client. Incompany training comes in various formats, including two to five-hour introductory
presentations on body language. Courses of several days are also offered for groups
of up to 30 people incorporating the combined facets of Sofie-Ann’s teachings
including Body Language and Facial Expressions, Personal Analysis of Body Language,
simple Chinese exercises to improve posture and health, as well as mediation
techniques useful in negotiation.
Susan Gamache
The Inner LIfe and Evolution of CP Practice Groups
28 May 2016
General interest
Legal, financial and therapuetic professionals come
together in a unique way within the CP practice group.
This workshop offers 4 different perspectives on
diversity within the CP group as well as many ideas for
encouraging growth and development as well as trouble shooting problems or 'stuck'
places will aslo be presented.
Learning objectives:
For participants to come away with several ways to look at the evolution of their CP
Group as well as interventions to support growth and problem-solving at all levels.
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION:
1993 - 2000 PhD Counselling Psychology
Dissertation topic: Children and families through separation, divorce and remarriage
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.
1988 - 1991 MA Counselling Psychology
Thesis topic: Children and families through separation, divorce and remarriage
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C.
W ORK HISTORY:
1990 - present Private Practice as Registered Clinical Counsellor (1991) and as
Registered Psychologist (2001), Clinical Fellow, Amer. Assoc. of Marriage & Family
Therapy (2002) with special focus on children and families through separation,
divorce and remarriage. Collaborative Divorce Coach & Child Specialist, Team
member 3way counseling for high conflict and child alienation, Mediator (2001),
Educator, Parent Educator, Writer, Media Consultant
Individual, Marital, Fam ily Therapist & Mediator in Private Practice
General practice in Couple and Family Therapy with children, adults, seniors, couples,
families etc.
Special Focus on Children and Fam ilies Through Separation, Divorce and
Rem arriage
Working independently and as part of therapeutic teams for divorcing families.
Provided therapy, psycho educational interventions and public education for families
experiencing separation, divorce and remarriage. Working therapeutically with
children, parents and families. Founding member of Collaborative Divorce Vancouver,
Charter Member of the BC Collaborative Roster Society.
Trainer: Stepfamily Assn. of America Training Institute, Continuing Legal Education of
BC – 15 courses in Collaborative Practice and Divorce Coaching, over 70 trainings in
US, Canada & Europe on this topic.
Public Educator: Professional presentations, public workshops, special consultant to
BC Council for Families on stepfamilies and marital transitions; 5 years of Parent
Education workshops for couples through separation, divorce & remarriage for
Vancouver Family Services, North Shore Family Services, Peace Arch Family
Services, Burnaby Family Life
Ingeborg Sandig & Rene de Haas
Strategic Coach Matrix in Collaborative Divorce Practice
28 may 2016
General interest
For the Coach, Lawyer and Financial
the Strategic Coach Matrix is a tool
to help divorcing couples to
structure the conversation by
following the four questions:
1.
2.
3.
4.
What are the relevant facts?
Which feelings do they have?
What are their goals?
Which actions can contribute to achieving the goals?
The Matrix helps clients and professionals to understand the clients situation in a
short period of time.
Learning objective:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Theory of the SCM
How to use the SCM
Practice using the SCM
After the workshop, participants should be able to start using the SCM.
Curriculum Vitae
Ingeborg Sandig, LLM, Psychologist
Ingeborg Sandig is Psychologist Family Mediator and has her own practice in
mediation, co-mediation, collaborative divorce, cross-border mediation. As a
psychologist and having her degree in law, she is fascinated by professional behavior
& tools that help clients overcome their problems. She works together with many
family lawyers in co-mediations and collaborative cases and is also member of the
Dutch board of Collaborative Divorce Holland.
René de Haas, Llm ,MDR.
René de Haas, partner in a law firm in Tilburg, the Netherlands. He has worked as a
lawyer since 1979 and specialized in family law. Over the last 15 years he more and
more focussed his practice on mediation in family law. In 2007 he was qualified as a
master in Dispute Resolution at the University of Amsterdam. Since the introduction
in Holland he often participates as a lawyer in the collaborative divorce practice.
Nowadays his practice concentrates on mediation and collaborative divorce.
Jacinta Gallant
Keeping Interests at the Table: Delivering on the Promise of Collaborative Practice
28 may 2016
General interest
In Collaborative Practice, we promise an “interest-based” negotiation that will meet
our clients’ needs, address their concerns and give them the best chance to achieve
what they hope for. Our clients’ interests are a vital key to finding creative and
workable solutions that address what is most important to the families we help.
We know this, and yet many collaborative professionals have experienced the
frustration of watching the clients’ interests “fall off the table” when moving into
option generation. Often, the clients - and even the professionals – return to
positions and the process suddenly does not feel very collaborative.
Learning objective:
In this 3-hour workshop, you will gain insight and learn skills to keep interests “on
the table”. Specifically we will work on how to:
identify and articulate interests in a meaningful and productive way;
organize interests into a workable Interests Agenda; and
work with interests in option generation to find client-centred solutions.
Curriculum Vitae
Jacinta is a collaborative lawyer, mediator and trainer living in Prince Edward island,
Canada. "Never cut what can be untied" is the inspiration for Jacinta's work.
Jacinta is an insightful and engaging trainer in the international Collaborative Practice
community. She has recently been selected as a member of IACP’s Training Faculty.
Jacinta loves the challenge of working with experienced professionals who want to
deepen their skills to be more natural and authentic in practice. With a great sense
of humour, and lots of experience from “lessons learned”, Jacinta offers
collaborative training that will help you be more effective working with clients and
collaborative teams to really deliver on the promise of Collaborative Practice.
17.00 – 17.30
Closing ceremony
17.30 – 24.00
Closing of the conference with a dinner and a party at the NEMO-science
center