Workshop

Transformation from partners to ex-partners into collaborating parents requires shifts in conflict behaviour and communication patterns.
Feedback resulting from earlier workshops shows that practicing effective interventions is required. In this workshop we will demonstrate the
participants learning by doing in roleplays to get familiar with these interventions and experience the effects on themselves and their clients.

Children’s voices can be powerful in the divorce process. This workshop explores various ways in which child specialists work with children in a productive and protective manner. Content will focus on specific techniques to examine the most effective ways to integrate the voice of the child into the process.

Want to jump start or revive an Access Program? Through identification of your WHY, this workshop expands upon general introduction to Access to Collaboration. We will cover the most important elements as they pertain to program development. We will break the process down into five phases (1) Finding Your Why, (2) Building Infrastructure, (3) Pathway for Clients, (4) Program Evaluation, (5) Maintaining your Program.

Thriving individual practices and a robust collaborative community depend upon professional relationships. Learn how to engage the collective wisdom of your collaborative community to make connections, stabilize the ebb and flow of collaborative groups, and sustain growth. Join us to learn the powerful magical formula to expand your collaborative world!

Come join your colleagues to hear about cases around the globe or perhaps talk about a few of your own. This is an opportunity for practitioners new and not so new to present challenging cases and dip into the collective collaborative knowledge for help, feedback, shared experience or other assistance on those cases that keep you guessing. This presentation is more of a round table to offer the participants options to bring back home to implement in your own cases.

The IACP Hague Convention Task Force presents the research it has conducted and its deliberations considered in the past months on the challenges and opportunities of using CP in international children abduction cases under the Hague Convention.

This workshop is focused on approaches in assisting the clients through financial uncertainty and impasse towards decision making and resolution. We will present concepts and techniques regarding division of assets, process costs, risk aversion, volatility, disruption and change in finances, and tools to help evaluate options and understand possible solutions.

Divorce is not a neutral event for minor and adult children. Legal, financial, and mental health professionals must understand the factors affecting children's adjustment to parental separation and divorce, to educate parents how to ensure their children's optimum adjustment. Children's drawings, videos, research, handouts, and interactive exercises provide multi-modal learning experiences.

Some clients capably guide the process where they want it to go. Others need strong direction, firm boundaries, and pre-formulated options. Others unwisely seize control and drive the case off a cliff. This workshop explores gradations of light vs. firm support, adjusted according to the needs of the particular case.

This workshop welcomes anyone who would like to submit an article to the IACP journal, the Collaborative Review. The workshop will cover submission details, including the style sheet, the type of articles and areas of interest. This is your opportunity to get involved with the continued growth of the Collaborative Review.