Advanced Training Programs:

Advanced training programs offer opportunities to further develop conceptual frameworks, increase the value of organizational structures, and add new skills and techniques for the individual practitioner.  Advanced programs generally respond to the specific topic requests of the organization or group sponsoring the program. Although multi-day programs can be created, the most requested format is a one-day advanced program.

The major categories of topics requested are these: Engaging clients to commit to a collaborative case; working with the uncooperative Collaborative Counsel; introducing subject specific issues, such as the family residence, business interests, support, retirement assets, etc., in a manner that is consistent with the collaborative principles; dealing with potential impasse; responding to the crisis case; developing a framework for disclosure; addressing relationship issues such as: trust, anger, psychological and emotional power imbalances, control, empowerment, etc.

Individual advanced workshops are also useful to target specific substantive and procedural protocol development, such as:

• Explaining the model in the first consultation
• Preparing the client for the first collaborative meeting
• Contact between the attorneys and other collaborating professionals to choreograph the first meeting
• Organization and processes for the first collaborative meeting
• Dealing with crisis circumstances and the role of counsel and coaches
• Introducing substantive issues and topics
• The use of forms, agreements, agreement-making, in general
• Dealing with issues of trust, empowerment, and power imbalances
• Addressing issues of enforcement
• Discovery, disclosure and document production
• Anticipating issues that will necessitate modification in the future

For more information, contact us at 831-429-9721