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Dec
1
Fri
Meeting with Children: Introducing a Structured Approach @ The Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue
Dec 1 @ 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
Meeting with Children: Introducing a Structured Approach @ The Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue | Vancouver | British Columbia | Canada

PRESENTER:

Lorri Yasenik Ph.D., works in Calgary and is a Registered Child Psychotherapist and Play Therapist, Registered Family Mediator and Parenting Coordinator-Arbitrator. Lorri works with high-conflict families experiencing separation and divorce and she is interested in safe and authentic ways to forward the voice of the child in family law matters. Lorri teaches nationally and internationally related to children and family law, child psychotherapy and play therapy.

Lorri’s Ph.D. research was entitled Including the Voices of Children of Separation and Divorce in the Legal System and her post-doctoral work is focused on the development of non-evaluative standard approaches to meeting with children.

 

COURSE OBJECTIVES:    

  • Introduce a structured approach to meeting with children
  • Differentiate “meetings from interviews” with children
  • Present a tool (Child and Youth Concerns Scale) for organizing children’s thoughts, feelings and concerns
  • Identify effective structured 3rd party feedback strategies
  • Identify ethical considerations
  • Identify important child development considerations

NOTE: The course provides 6.5 hours of CPD and has been approved by the following organizations:

LSBC recognizes 6.5 hours towards CPD, and towards Parenting Coordinator & Mediator accreditations;

BC Hear the Child Roster recognizes 6.5 hrs towards the child interview skills portion of the basic training;

BC PC Roster Society recognizes 6.5 hours towards their 7 hours of child interviewing.

Seating is Limited – Register Early

EARLY  BIRD RATES for all members of the HTC Society Expire November 10th

Click for PDF Registration Form

Dec
5
Tue
Christmas Social @ BNA Brewing Company
Dec 5 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

December 5 – 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

OCFLG Christmas Social at BNA Brewing Co (1250 Ellis Street, Kelowna).

Please RSVP to Bree Hankins ([email protected])

Jan
18
Thu
2018 OCFLG Annual Retreat @ El Dorado Hotel
Jan 18 @ 5:00 pm – Jan 19 @ 7:00 pm

Isn’t it time you scheduled a break for YOURSELF?

It’s Annual Retreat time!

hotel eldorado

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:

John-Paul BoydYour Keynote:  Take a journey on the changes in family law over the past 50 years.  With insights weaved throughout, John-Paul will guide us on why family law needs to be practiced differently than other areas of civil law.  He speaks to the need to pursue the non-adversarial resolution of disputes for the sake of the well-being of the children and the parties, and the future functioning of the restructured family.

 

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]

Apr
21
Sat
Law Day at the Kelowna Courthouse @ Kelowna Law Courts
Apr 21 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

Please RSVP Bree ([email protected]) if you are able and interested in volunteering at the OCFLG booth.

May
7
Mon
Navigating Dangerous Waters: From Survival Reactivity to Receptive Creativity @ Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue
May 7 @ 9:00 am – 4:30 pm

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]

Download the Registration PDF

May
28
Mon
End of the Year Social @ Hotel Eldorado
May 28 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

End of year social at the El Dorado Hotel (500 Cook Road, Kelowna).  Please RSVP to Bree ([email protected]) or Joan ([email protected]).

Aug
9
Thu
Summer Sessions for Collaborative Professionals 2018
Aug 9 – Aug 10 all-day

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

Aug
10
Fri
Summer Sessions for Collaborative Professionals 2018
Aug 10 – Aug 11 all-day

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

Aug
15
Wed
Summer Sessions for Collaborative Professionals 2018
Aug 15 – Aug 16 all-day

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

Aug
16
Thu
Summer Sessions for Collaborative Professionals 2018
Aug 16 – Aug 17 all-day

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