Beyond Marketing: Growing Your Collaborative Practice Through Passion, Innovation and Courage

This intermediate level program for attorneys, mental health and financial professionals teaches skills to help develop and expand a collaborative practice and bring awareness of collaborative divorce to the community and refines skills that are critical to the practice of collaborative divorce.  Participants will be able to:

1.             Summarize the correlation between practice development and skill development in collaborative divorce;

2.             Define, for clients, the collaborative option for divorce, with its goal of transitioning couples to healthy co-parenting;

3.             Describe the unique qualities of collaborative divorce in relation to other ADR divorce options;

4.             Explain the skills needed to “convert” clients to become collaborative divorce clients;

5.             Identify the skills needed to educate the community about collaborative divorce, including across diverse cultures;

6.             Delineate the steps from client commitment to collaborative commencement.

7.             List the top 3 ways to break client impasse during divorce negotiations.

8.             Create a 12-month plan to bring collaborative divorce to the community.