Join Pauline Tesler for a free webinar series presented by the ili Online Academy, the newest project of the Integrative Law Institute at Commonweal:
Making Collaborative Divorce Visible: Five Conversations with Thought Leaders
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#1: Conversation with Wealth Manager William Clements, Parallel Advisors, San Francisco, June 22, 2020 at 10AM, Pacific Time Zone.
#2: Conversation with Realtor and Divorce Real Estate Specialist Harold Deblander, Sotheby's International Real Estate; June 24, 2020 at 10AM, Pacific Time Zone.
#3: Conversation with Social Justice Lawyer Cynthia Chandler about Bringing Diversity to the Collaborative Movement, June 26, 2020 at 10AM, Pacific Time Zone.
#4: Conversation with Retired Judge Ross Foote about Enlisting the Judiciary in Support of Collaborative Divorce, June 29, 2020 at 10AM, Pacific Time Zone.
#5: Conversation witih Three Faith Leaders about Families, Values, and Collaborative Divorce, July 3, 2020 at 12:00PM, Pacific Time Zone.
What We'll Discuss:
In this series of unstructured conversations, we'll look at one of the most persistent problems faced by the collaborative community: in thirty years, we have made little progress toward realizing our movement’s mission: changing how divorce is understood and handled worldwide.
Collaborative Divorce remains largely invisible to the cultures we all live in. In the United States, most lawyers and judges outside the domain of family law don’t know we exist. They make referrals to the most aggressive divorce lawyers, believing this is helpful and remaining unaware of the consequent harms that can result. Most mental health professionals who don't do Collaborative Divorce are ignorant of our work; they don’t refer their clients to collaborative lawyers, though they would if they knew what we do. Religious leaders, who surely ought to value our child-focused, respectful, values-based team approach to divorce, don’t know anything about us.
The same seems to be true in most other countries where Collaborative Divorce is available. This program seeks new solutions to the problem.
This series of five conversations will be presented as live webinars, and subsequently on-demand. Register now for each webinar separately; places are limited.
Pauline H. Tesler, J.D., Certified Specialist in Family Law, and first President of IACP
Free.