VIRTUAL Basic Interdisciplinary Collaborative Training

Date and time: 
March 11, 2021 - 6:30am to 10:00am
Event type: 
Introductory Collaborative Practice Training

As we continue to engage in a “virtual” court structure, our Collaborative trainers have developed an online collaborative divorce training that introduces professionals to a process that enables couples to complete their divorce without ever stepping into a Courthouse. Lawyers, licensed mental health professionals, and financial specialists work together as a team to help families reduce conflict, exchange financial data, and resolve legal issues. This training meets the minimum standards established by the International Association of Collaborative Professionals (IACP). For those who have taken the 40-hour family mediation training, this is an excellent “next step” in obtaining the training necessary to meet the membership requirements of IACP and CCND (The Connecticut Council for Non-Adversarial Divorce).

The collaborative model is a non-adversarial approach to divorce that differs from mediation, arbitration, and other dispute resolution options.

Training Topics will include:

  • How to make the paradigm shift from a litigation model to a collaborative model
  • The stages of a collaborative case
  • The roles of each member of the professional team
  • Ethical considerations for each of the professions
  • The roadmap of a collaborative case

Participants will learn:

  • The process and substantive skills for completing a collaborative case
  • The basic components of interest-based negotiations
  • How to work effectively within the interdisciplinary team
  • Strategies for dealing with impasse
  • How to avoid common mistakes
  • Basic assessment tools for determining the right process for clients.

The cost of this training includes monthly follow-up consultation/coaching with the trainers for 6 months. It promises to be challenging and rewarding for participants. It will be highly interactive and will include opportunities to learn and practice new skills in small groups and role-play exercises. Participants will expand their repertoire of services to offer future clients. They will meet allied professionals and colleagues and have valuable networking opportunities.

Location: 

via Zoom for 5 Half Days - 8:30am - 12:00pm EST

Thursday 11 Mar 2021

Friday 12 Mar 2021

Monday 15 Mar 2021

Tuesday 16 Mar 2021

Wednesday 17 Mar 2021

 

Trainers: 

Kim L. Duell, Esq.

www.kimduell.com

Attorney Duell has practiced family law for 35 years, constantly seeking better ways to support families going through this process. She has extensive training in mediation and collaborative divorce and has worked extensively with children as a GAL and AMC. She is a member of two practice groups, Collaborative Divorce Lawyers Association of Greater Hartford (www.collaborative-divorce.com) and Collaborative Divorce Professionals (collaborativedivorceprofessionals-ct.com) and has presented at the Connecticut Bar Association (CBA) and local bar association and practice group workshops on a variety of topics. Her goal is to provide an array of options to clients and families with an emphasis on problem-solving and improving communication skills for all.

Attorney Duell's law practice is in Hartford, Connecticut, where she brings her love of mediation and yoga to the world of family law.

 

Lisa C. Gresham, CDFA

www.equitabledivorce.net

Lisa Gresham is a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst and founder of Equitable Divorce Solutions, LLC. Ms. Gresham has over 30 years of experience in the financial and investment industry. Since 2003, she has focused her practice solely on the complex financial issues specific to divorce. She works with individuals, mediators and collaborative professionals to navigate through all stages of the divorce process. As a financial professional trained in Mediation and Interdisciplinary Collaborative Divorce, Ms. Gresham concentrates on budgeting, evaluating tax and cash flow implications with possible settlement scenarios and long term projections in order to help her clients achieve a workable settlement and a plan to meet their immediate and future financial needs and goals.

Ms. Gresham is a member of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, American Bar Association, Institute for Divorce Financial Analysts and Divorce Solutions of Connecticut. She has served on the Executive Committee and as Treasurer for the Connecticut Council for Non-Adversarial Divorce (CCND), and as treasurer for the Women & Family Life Center, in Guilford, Connecticut.

Ms. Gresham has provided divorce mediation training to attorneys, financial and mental health professionals as a founding member of the CT Famly Mediation Training Group.  She teaches public educational seminars on the financial aspects of divorce and has been a guest on “Smart Money”, a financial radio show sponsored by Barnum Financial Group and broadcasted on WELI.

Prior to forming her own company, Ms. Gresham worked as a financial advisor with several brokerage firms and as the director of client service and marketing for a major institutional money manager.  Ms. Gresham practices in Connecticut and New York.

Elizabeth S. Thayer, Ph.D.

www.beaconbehavioral.com

Dr. Thayer is a licensed psychologist at Beacon Behavioral Services LLC, in Avon and West Hartford, CT. She is trained in mediation and collaborative divorce and has many years of interdisciplinary experience as a mental health collaborative divorce coach. She is co-president of the Collaborative Divorce Group of Connecticut and a member of the International Association of Divorce Professionals (IACP) Trainers Committee. She is co-founder of the PEACE Program, a parent counseling program for parents of divorce, and the co-author of two publications: The Co-Parenting Survival Guide and Adult Children of Divorce.

 

Dr. Thayer provides individual, group, couples and family therapy and mediation and has given numerous presentations, workshops, and trainings for professionals. She is on the board of the Children's Law Center and a former board member of CCND.

 

Contact email: 
info@gooddivorcect.com
Presenter: 
CCND trainers: Kim L. Duell, Esq; Lisa C. Gresham, CDFA; Elizabeth S. Thayer, PhD.
Sponsor: 
CCND
Price info: 

$525 Members/$595 Non-Members until 1/31/2021

$595 Members/$660 Non-Members after 1/31/2021

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