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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]
End of year social at the El Dorado Hotel (500 Cook Road, Kelowna). Please RSVP to Bree ([email protected]) or Joan ([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
Joan Spence will present on the four spheres of going through a divorce. Leneigh Bosdet will present on the proposed new amendments to the Divorce Act.
Victoria Collaborative group is hosting a training on Stretch Collaboration presented by Nancy Cameron, Q.C., coming up on Thursday, October 18th.
We have extended the “Member” rate to members of other Collaborative groups, and also members of the BC Collaborative Roster Society, Mediate BC Roster, and the Hear the Child Roster. We are hoping to make this training accessible to other groups around the province and beyond. We hope to continue in the future to work with other collaborative organizations to make it possible for all of our collective members to access as many of these valuable training workshops as possible. In this spirit, we are extending this invitation to all collaborative group and Roster members. This presents an opportunity for anyone who hasn’t taken this training yet to do so and perhaps have a nice long weekend visit over to beautiful Victoria.
- In order to get the early bird rate, you need to register before September 28th 2018.
- Only $150 for members for a full day of training!
- The registration form is attached. Please fill it out, scan it and email it to: [email protected]
- Then mail your cheque to Loretta Burns at 1121 Praisewood Terrace, Victoria, BC V8X 5E6