Chicago FGH

Friday Special Gathering #1 Collaborative Practice Around the World

Join Collaborative Practitioners from around the world for a discussion about the challenges and benefits of developing Collaborative Practice in different cultures, under different legal systems, in different languages. IACP now has members in 25 countries. This Special Gathering will be an opportunity to connect and share, and we will also be offering an overview of IACP’s new Global Partners initiative!

Friday PFI #7 Interplay of Advocacy and Neutrality

As mediation and collaborative practice become more mainstream, we are handling  more high conflict,  challenging personalities and  intractable legal/financial issues.  In order to handle these  complex files , we are working in teams of advocates and neutrals and encountering the possibilities and the challenges  of neutrality and advocacy. In this workshop, we explore:
● the importance of each role and how we can capitalize on their strengths without stepping on one another’s toes

Thursday PFI #4 Train the Trainers: It's Not Just Theory - How to Deliver Experiential and Impactful Learning to Collaborative Professionals

If you are a collaborative trainer, join us for a workshop that will enhance your ability to deliver engaging and impactful training programs to collaborative professionals. Our interdisciplinary training team will share their best training approaches to meeting participants’ adult learner needs, balancing theory and practice, teaching the paradigm shift, managing the personal styles within a team dynamic, working with curious questions and feedback, balancing the voices of the lawyer, financial specialist and mental health professional and modeling collaborative practice in action.