For Okanagan Collaborative Family Law members, join us as the Rockets take on Portland.

Watch the action from the Game Suite.

Thanks to our hosts and sponsors Pushor Mitchell.

Contact Simone Burton for information.

Last year, Mamas For Mamas hosted a sold-out event deemed the party of the year by KelownaNow. Save the date for November 10, 2017 for our Masquerade Ball featuring delicious catering from MTL, a live DJ, 2 photobooths, extravagant silent auction, great drinks and a great atmosphere. Not to mention the Cirque De Soleil-esque entertainment, including fire throwers, acrobatic dancers, fortune tellers, and so much more! Come party for a purpose in style at what will be 2017’s party of the year!

How our Personal Identity and Values
Impact our Effectiveness as Dispute Resolution Practitioners

Presented by Nancy Cameron, Q.C.

Sponsored by BC Collaborative Roster Society

Is it possible to leave our identity and values as Dispute Resolution Professionals outside the room? This workshop will examine both professional and social identity.  We will explore how our professional identities can unite us or can lead to conflict, and strategies to help decrease identity-based conflicts.

A one-day training with Nancy Cameron, Q.C. on November 24, 2017 at Van Dusen Botanical Garden, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

See the attached Registration Form for additional details.

Administrator: BC Collaborative Roster Society
Email: [email protected]
Website:  http://www.bccollaborativerostersociety.com

Click here for the PDF registration Form

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 3^rd 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 10^th

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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])

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 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]

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

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