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Isn’t it time you scheduled a break for YOURSELF?
It’s Annual Retreat time!
January 18th & 19th, 2018
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Join us at the beautiful
ELDORADO HOTEL
Space is limited so act fast to secure your spot!
SIGNIFICANT savings if you book before December 1st, 2017. You’ll find all of the details + itinerary below.
We are anticipating approval for 6+hrs of CPD credits!
With Keynote John-Paul Boyd and your Expert Facilitator, Josie Smith.
We’ve custom tailored this retreat to meet your needs:
Your Full Day Program: Building Personal Resilience and Group Trust in Demanding Times. Specific to YOU in its design this full-day workshop offers a deep dive into the story you tell about fulfilling your needs, teaches better ways to build boundaries while enhancing your learning through meditation techniques you can take with you! We’re even doing a yoga practice for resiliency in the am (optional of course but trust us, you won’t want to miss it!).
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For more information please contact our retreat committee Chair: Leneigh Bosdet [email protected]
Collaborative Roster Society Presents
Navigating Dangerous Waters: From Survival Reactivity to Receptive Creativity
with Michal Shaked and Michal Kaempfer
For Mediators, Family Law Lawyers and Collaborative Professionals
Danger automatically triggers survival mode reactions. Divorce, as one of the major traumatic life experiences, often triggers the client’s most primitive survival instincts. Moreover, through interaction with clients, the team members’ survival reaction may be triggered as well. In this interactive workshop, we will explore together the choices we make, and offer learning tools such as the “Johari Window”, self-reflection, the “BASIC PH” Model of Coping and Resiliency (Mooli Lahad) and the power of intentional thinking in order to create a strong vision for change.
Michal Kaempfer is a collaborative lawyer, mediator and trainer from Israel. She is the cofounder of the “Divorcing Peacefully” collaborative practice group (www.israeldivorce.co.il) established in 2009 and served as chairman of its managing committee for years. She served in the army in the Israeli Intelligence, was a legal adviser for Na’amat—a women’s rights organization and provided mediation services for the court system, including preliminary meetings for parties encouraging them to go through ADR process before continuing the legal process. She has taught basic and advanced mediation courses and has provided Interdisciplinary Collaborative Practice training for the Israeli Bar Association and for the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. She dedicates her private practice to peacemaking workshops, training and lectures.
Michal Shaked has her own law and mediation firm based in Haifa and Tel Aviv, and teaches family mediation and ADR in the faculty of law at Bar Ilan University. She is the vice-president of the Israeli Bar Association, and is chairman of the IBA’s ADR forum as well as the international forum. She is also co-founder of the “Nifradim” collaborative group (www.nifradim.co.il). She served as a legal adviser at women’s shelters and after years of litigation and negotiating high profile cases, has decided to focus on DR work, while mainly offering mediation and collaborative work. She was chief editor of the Haifa Bar Law Review and wrote a proposal for a bill to change one of the main laws to benefit victims of domestic violence.
Credits: 6 hours of CPD credits (approval from Law Society pending)
To register, please complete the attached PDF and return together with payment to:
Nikki Charlton
c/o Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP
2500- 700 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, BC V7Y 1B3
or by email to: [email protected]
We accept cheques payable to the BC Collaborative Roster Society or e-transfer to [email protected]
The fourth annual Summer Sessions for Collaborative Professionals is happening in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada August 9-10 and 15-16, 2018. Fulfill your professional development needs and vacation on our beautiful Island! Check out PEI in Summer.
TRANSFORMING CONFLICT THROUGH INSIGHT
August 9-10, 2018
This 2-day advanced workshop will introduce conflict professionals to the “insight approach” to conflict and mediation. The insight approach addresses conflict through a “learning lens” that engages conflicting parties in an interactive learning process where conflict is viewed as an interpretation of threats to deep level values. These threats cause people to respond with “defend” patterns of interaction that generate, escalate and sustain conflict. Helping conflicting parties understand more about what each other values and how it contributes to their actions assists them to gain “insight” and seek new ways of interacting that are less threatening and more productive. When the conflict is managed effectively, parties can make better decisions and reach lasting agreement.
Trainers: Dr. Cheryl Picard and Jacinta Gallant
COST: $700 CDN (Canadian residents add 15% HST)
THE AUTHENTIC PROFESSIONAL SERIES – 1 DAY COURSES
August 15 – Communication FLOW, with Harmony Wagner and Jacinta Gallant
If you have ever wanted to feel more integration in your professional and personal life, this workshop is for you. We will focus on communication and conflict to help you be more authentic and natural at work, and in your life generally. This workshop introduces a new approach to establishing and maintaining the connections required to harmonize stress and collaborate. You will find it immediately applicable to your work, and your life.
In this experiential and interactive workshop, we will dissect the anatomy of conflict and garner practical tools to improve listening skills, defuse defensiveness and facilitate dialogue. We will work with movement to apply basic Tai Chi principles to the communication process, and learn how to keep the conversation moving forward between opposing forces. Working from the tenet that continued flow is the basis of fruitful negotiation and the resolution of disputes, we will offer tools and techniques to help you respond, rather than react, in conflict situations.
COST: $350.00 (Canadian residents add 15% HST)
August 16 – Shifting from Judgment to Curiosity, with Jacinta Gallant
Building on the idea that we are more effective in our work when we can be authentic and natural, this workshop will challenge your judgments and assumptions – and help you become more curious!
As Conflict Professionals, our job is to help clients move through their difficulties and open themselves up to the many possibilities for the future. But this is not easy.
We need to be aware that we, just like our clients, are influenced by our own judgments and assumptions. In this 1 day workshop, we will explore our own judgments and assumptions and learn how to be “productively” curious. With a combination of experiential learning, and self-exploration, you will learn how to be effective in asking questions, more natural in your responses, and more authentic in your practice. We also think that playing with curiosity will help you enjoy your life more!
COST: $350.00 (Canadian residents add 15% HST)
Click for more details and registration: http://www.jacintagallant.ca/summer-sessions.php
The fourth annual Summer Sessions for Collaborative Professionals is happening in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada August 9-10 and 15-16, 2018. Fulfill your professional development needs and vacation on our beautiful Island! Check out PEI in Summer.
TRANSFORMING CONFLICT THROUGH INSIGHT
August 9-10, 2018
This 2-day advanced workshop will introduce conflict professionals to the “insight approach” to conflict and mediation. The insight approach addresses conflict through a “learning lens” that engages conflicting parties in an interactive learning process where conflict is viewed as an interpretation of threats to deep level values. These threats cause people to respond with “defend” patterns of interaction that generate, escalate and sustain conflict. Helping conflicting parties understand more about what each other values and how it contributes to their actions assists them to gain “insight” and seek new ways of interacting that are less threatening and more productive. When the conflict is managed effectively, parties can make better decisions and reach lasting agreement.
Trainers: Dr. Cheryl Picard and Jacinta Gallant
COST: $700 CDN (Canadian residents add 15% HST)
THE AUTHENTIC PROFESSIONAL SERIES – 1 DAY COURSES
August 15 – Communication FLOW, with Harmony Wagner and Jacinta Gallant
If you have ever wanted to feel more integration in your professional and personal life, this workshop is for you. We will focus on communication and conflict to help you be more authentic and natural at work, and in your life generally. This workshop introduces a new approach to establishing and maintaining the connections required to harmonize stress and collaborate. You will find it immediately applicable to your work, and your life.
In this experiential and interactive workshop, we will dissect the anatomy of conflict and garner practical tools to improve listening skills, defuse defensiveness and facilitate dialogue. We will work with movement to apply basic Tai Chi principles to the communication process, and learn how to keep the conversation moving forward between opposing forces. Working from the tenet that continued flow is the basis of fruitful negotiation and the resolution of disputes, we will offer tools and techniques to help you respond, rather than react, in conflict situations.
COST: $350.00 (Canadian residents add 15% HST)
August 16 – Shifting from Judgment to Curiosity, with Jacinta Gallant
Building on the idea that we are more effective in our work when we can be authentic and natural, this workshop will challenge your judgments and assumptions – and help you become more curious!
As Conflict Professionals, our job is to help clients move through their difficulties and open themselves up to the many possibilities for the future. But this is not easy.
We need to be aware that we, just like our clients, are influenced by our own judgments and assumptions. In this 1 day workshop, we will explore our own judgments and assumptions and learn how to be “productively” curious. With a combination of experiential learning, and self-exploration, you will learn how to be effective in asking questions, more natural in your responses, and more authentic in your practice. We also think that playing with curiosity will help you enjoy your life more!
COST: $350.00 (Canadian residents add 15% HST)
Click for more details and registration: http://www.jacintagallant.ca/summer-sessions.php
The fourth annual Summer Sessions for Collaborative Professionals is happening in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada August 9-10 and 15-16, 2018. Fulfill your professional development needs and vacation on our beautiful Island! Check out PEI in Summer.
TRANSFORMING CONFLICT THROUGH INSIGHT
August 9-10, 2018
This 2-day advanced workshop will introduce conflict professionals to the “insight approach” to conflict and mediation. The insight approach addresses conflict through a “learning lens” that engages conflicting parties in an interactive learning process where conflict is viewed as an interpretation of threats to deep level values. These threats cause people to respond with “defend” patterns of interaction that generate, escalate and sustain conflict. Helping conflicting parties understand more about what each other values and how it contributes to their actions assists them to gain “insight” and seek new ways of interacting that are less threatening and more productive. When the conflict is managed effectively, parties can make better decisions and reach lasting agreement.
Trainers: Dr. Cheryl Picard and Jacinta Gallant
COST: $700 CDN (Canadian residents add 15% HST)
THE AUTHENTIC PROFESSIONAL SERIES – 1 DAY COURSES
August 15 – Communication FLOW, with Harmony Wagner and Jacinta Gallant
If you have ever wanted to feel more integration in your professional and personal life, this workshop is for you. We will focus on communication and conflict to help you be more authentic and natural at work, and in your life generally. This workshop introduces a new approach to establishing and maintaining the connections required to harmonize stress and collaborate. You will find it immediately applicable to your work, and your life.
In this experiential and interactive workshop, we will dissect the anatomy of conflict and garner practical tools to improve listening skills, defuse defensiveness and facilitate dialogue. We will work with movement to apply basic Tai Chi principles to the communication process, and learn how to keep the conversation moving forward between opposing forces. Working from the tenet that continued flow is the basis of fruitful negotiation and the resolution of disputes, we will offer tools and techniques to help you respond, rather than react, in conflict situations.
COST: $350.00 (Canadian residents add 15% HST)
August 16 – Shifting from Judgment to Curiosity, with Jacinta Gallant
Building on the idea that we are more effective in our work when we can be authentic and natural, this workshop will challenge your judgments and assumptions – and help you become more curious!
As Conflict Professionals, our job is to help clients move through their difficulties and open themselves up to the many possibilities for the future. But this is not easy.
We need to be aware that we, just like our clients, are influenced by our own judgments and assumptions. In this 1 day workshop, we will explore our own judgments and assumptions and learn how to be “productively” curious. With a combination of experiential learning, and self-exploration, you will learn how to be effective in asking questions, more natural in your responses, and more authentic in your practice. We also think that playing with curiosity will help you enjoy your life more!
COST: $350.00 (Canadian residents add 15% HST)
Click for more details and registration: http://www.jacintagallant.ca/summer-sessions.php
The fourth annual Summer Sessions for Collaborative Professionals is happening in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada August 9-10 and 15-16, 2018. Fulfill your professional development needs and vacation on our beautiful Island! Check out PEI in Summer.
TRANSFORMING CONFLICT THROUGH INSIGHT
August 9-10, 2018
This 2-day advanced workshop will introduce conflict professionals to the “insight approach” to conflict and mediation. The insight approach addresses conflict through a “learning lens” that engages conflicting parties in an interactive learning process where conflict is viewed as an interpretation of threats to deep level values. These threats cause people to respond with “defend” patterns of interaction that generate, escalate and sustain conflict. Helping conflicting parties understand more about what each other values and how it contributes to their actions assists them to gain “insight” and seek new ways of interacting that are less threatening and more productive. When the conflict is managed effectively, parties can make better decisions and reach lasting agreement.
Trainers: Dr. Cheryl Picard and Jacinta Gallant
COST: $700 CDN (Canadian residents add 15% HST)
THE AUTHENTIC PROFESSIONAL SERIES – 1 DAY COURSES
August 15 – Communication FLOW, with Harmony Wagner and Jacinta Gallant
If you have ever wanted to feel more integration in your professional and personal life, this workshop is for you. We will focus on communication and conflict to help you be more authentic and natural at work, and in your life generally. This workshop introduces a new approach to establishing and maintaining the connections required to harmonize stress and collaborate. You will find it immediately applicable to your work, and your life.
In this experiential and interactive workshop, we will dissect the anatomy of conflict and garner practical tools to improve listening skills, defuse defensiveness and facilitate dialogue. We will work with movement to apply basic Tai Chi principles to the communication process, and learn how to keep the conversation moving forward between opposing forces. Working from the tenet that continued flow is the basis of fruitful negotiation and the resolution of disputes, we will offer tools and techniques to help you respond, rather than react, in conflict situations.
COST: $350.00 (Canadian residents add 15% HST)
August 16 – Shifting from Judgment to Curiosity, with Jacinta Gallant
Building on the idea that we are more effective in our work when we can be authentic and natural, this workshop will challenge your judgments and assumptions – and help you become more curious!
As Conflict Professionals, our job is to help clients move through their difficulties and open themselves up to the many possibilities for the future. But this is not easy.
We need to be aware that we, just like our clients, are influenced by our own judgments and assumptions. In this 1 day workshop, we will explore our own judgments and assumptions and learn how to be “productively” curious. With a combination of experiential learning, and self-exploration, you will learn how to be effective in asking questions, more natural in your responses, and more authentic in your practice. We also think that playing with curiosity will help you enjoy your life more!
COST: $350.00 (Canadian residents add 15% HST)
Click for more details and registration: http://www.jacintagallant.ca/summer-sessions.php
Bev Churchill will present highlights of the IACP Forum.
Note – The location has changed from Pushor Mitchell to Grant Thorton.
The fifth annual Summer Sessions for Collaborative Professionals is happening in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Fulfill your professional development needs and vacation on our beautiful Island! Check out PEI in Summer.
To register and learn more, go to http://www.jacintagallant.ca/summer-sessions.php
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TRANSFORMING CONFLICT THROUGH INSIGHT: AN ADVANCED WORKSHOP FOR CONFLICT PROFESSIONALS
August 12-13, with Dr. Cheryl Picard
This 2-day advanced workshop is led by the founder of Insight Mediation, Dr. Cheryl Picard. A unique opportunity for conflict practitioners who have already been introduced to theInsight Approach, this workshop will take your knowledge to a deeper level and help you more effectively apply the Insight Approach in your work. You will learn to more effectively intervene with conflicting parties, using a theoretically informed practice, enhancing their capacity and desire to understand one another through the generation of new insights and decisions that ultimately transform the conflict
COST: $600.00 (plus 15% HST)
Domestic Violence in Collaborative Practice – Fall 2021 Virtual Conference
October 7 | 9:00 am – 3:00 pm MT
Sponsored by ACP (Calgary)
We encourage you to join us as we learn about leading-edge Canadian academic research and practice management relating to domestic violence.
Participants will develop the knowledge and tools to be able to recognize and manage the dynamics of domestic violence.
For more details and to register, click here.
CBA members enjoy a 10% discount on tickets. To get this special pricing, look for Enter promo xode in blue letters at the top of the checkout page and enter this coupon code: ACP-100710 You must then click APPLY for the discount to go into effect.
See an introduction letter and PDF brochure below.
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Dear Friends,
Through this program, participants will:
- Gain insight into judicial decisions in the context of domestic violence and family law and discuss the implications for collaborative professionals
- Recognize domestic violence and understand its impact on individuals, families, and community
- Address personal bias around domestic violence
- Develop comfort in responding to disclosure of domestic violence and learn how to build appropriate support and referral services
- Utilize tools to assess and determine mitigation strategies for personal and professional risks associated with taking a file where domestic violence is a factor
- Learn to navigate the lawyer’s professional and ethical obligations in Collaborative Practice where there is Family Violence
- Develop best practices for screening for domestic violence and creating a safe space for collaboration
We look forward to seeing you there.
Beryl McNeill
Collaborative Family Lawyer & Mediator
Chair of the Association of Collaborative Professionals (Calgary)