This is the entry training for Collaborative Law. It is essential Collaborative Law training  and perfect for those newly embarking on Collaborative Law, or those who wish to get a refresher or update. At this exciting training, you will learn:

• Skills and procedures for handling a Collaborative case from beginning to end, including a full step-by-step manual, checklists, and helpful forms.
• The roles and function of Collaborative team members, including the lawyer, financial specialist, coach and child specialist.
• An introduction to interest-based negotiations, facilitation and other skills to bring a collaborative case to successful conclusion.
• Stages of the Collaborative Law process.
• The psychological dynamics of a marital dissolution and how they impact your work.
• Ethics and ethical issues that face the Collaborative professional.
• How to develop a successful Collaborative practice.
• Essential skills and techniques needed to take your Collaborative Law practice to the next level.
• Step-by-step instruction to help you work more effectively in the Collaborative Law model and to help you facilitate and manage the negotiation of durable agreements using a client-centered process.
• How to successfully navigate through some of the problems for Collaborative Law practitioners.
• Learn some dispute resolution skills for a Collaborative Law.

This skills-focused training is taught by an interdisciplinary Collaborative team (lawyers, coach, and financial specialist), and includes demonstrations and hands-on practice.

To help you get through your first cases, all attendees receive a comprehensive manual on Collaborative Practice and a CD that contains valuable checklists, forms, handouts, and articles.

This course fulfills the 12-hour Basic Collaborative Law training requirements of local Collaborative Law organizations, and complies with training standards of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals.

Registration: 8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
Program: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Credits: 13.00 CLE credits (incl. 1.0 ethics) approved. Approved for 6.5 CEUs (provider #1975-272) for Psychologists, Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, and Licensed Mental Health Counselors by the National Association of Social Workers through Collaborative Professionals of Washington

Faculty: Rachel Felbeck, Anne Lucas, John Twitchell, and J. Mark Weiss

Tuition: $495 (before 1/27/12), $525 (after 1/27/12)

A group discount rate of $475 is available for groups of 2+ when all registration forms and payment are received together. Sorry, online registration is not available for the group discount.

We are required to collect 9.5% sales tax.

Location: Hotel Deca, 4507 Brooklyn Ave. NE Seattle, WA 98105

This workshop is designed to significantly enhance and bring precision to your facilitation and negotiation skills and techniques.  Sometimes, despite our best efforts, our work can seem  ineffective and it can be puzzling how this could be. This workshop provides a template for analyzing the work that Collaborative professionals do with their clients, breaking it down into distinct phases that are driven by what specific clients need. It then teaches specific tools for each phase. By providing a structure for working with clients and for organizing tools, you will be able to confidently select the right tools to help with common issues. By the end of this workshop, you will be able to deploy specific tools with precision and effectiveness. First taught in 2011, this workshop has received rave reviews and it is almost certain to transform the way you work with clients and conflict. This workshop is designed for advanced practitioners who wish to learn practical skills that can immediately impact how to work on all cases.

• How to build a positive alliance with your clients;
• Learning the purposes of various conflict resolution tools, when they can be used and when they should not be used; and
• Skills to help parties whose sense of entitlement, anger, passivity, or resistance, is getting in the way.

This workshop was first created in 2011, and received rave reviews.

Registration: 8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
Program: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Credits: Approved for 6.5 general CLE credits by the Washington State Bar Association

Prerequisites: 12-hour Basic Collaborative Law training and 30-hour facilitative mediation training.

Faculty: Anne M. Lucas, LMHC, and J. Mark Weiss, J.D.

Tuition: $225 (before 2/21/12), $250 (after 2/21/12)

A group discount rate of $210 is available for groups of 2+ when all registration forms and payment are received together. Sorry, online registration is not available for the group discount.

We are required to collect 9.5% sales tax.

Location: Paramount Hotel, Seattle

Sometimes, a resolution seems beyond grasp even when all interests and needs have been carefully addressed. This seminar series (four two-hour classes) will provide advanced skills to those who have mastered interest-based facilitation. You will advance past the limitations of interests and needs to achieve extraordinary results in your facilitation of difficult cases – without resorting to rights-based methods.

This seminar series draws on the toolbox that you learned in the Facilitating Negotiations and Working with Clients workshop (offered March 2, 2012) so you can apply it with new skills in the most challenging high-conflict cases. (We will not be repeating the March 2 workshop in the seminar series.) Each seminar builds on what was learned during the prior sessions, and each is also designed to stands on its own for those unable to attend the full series.

While the curriculum for the series is still in development and therefore subject to change, the individual session topics are currently slated to be:

• March 7: “The Collaborative Professional in the Face of Conflict.” In the first seminar block we explore what gets in the way of professionals’ ability to work effectively and deploy their tools and skills during client conflict and ways to be effective even in the face of conflict.
• March 14: “Working with Conflict Generators.” In this seminar block, we look at “conflict generators,” parties who are actively engaged in and create overt conflict, including those where one or both clients may be viewed as having a personality disorder. We explore how to effectively intervene with overt conflict to help the clients move towards reaching an agreement.
• March 21: “Working with Disengaged and Disempowered Clients.” We continue our exploration of conflict by shifting to clients who are disengaged or disempowered. We look at the causes, and provide a researched and highly effective method to build client motivation.
• March 28: “Working with Clients’ Divorce and Conflict Stories—Making Sense of It All.” In the final block of our seminar series, we explore the conflict stories in a Collaborative case and their sources, and look at tools to help clients to create stories of agreement.

You may register for any sessions as you may wish. However, each session builds on the prior one, and some topics build from session to session.

Registration: 3:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. each class
Program: 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. each class

Credits:  CLE accreditation pending

Prerequisites:  12-hour Basic Collaborative Law training and 30-hour facilitative mediation training. Highly recommended: Completion of the Facilitating Negotiations and Working with Clients workshop (offered March 2, 2012) or the equivalent workshop from 2011.

Faculty: Rachel Felbeck, JD, Anne Lucas, MA, LMHC, and J. Mark Weiss, JD

Tuition: $80 per class. SAVE – $260 for all four classes

We are required to collect 9.5% sales tax.

Location: Paramount Hotel, Seattle

This program is designed to give collaborative team members an understanding of this pivotal role. For coaches, this is a golden opportunity to learn, practice and experience the “Divorce Coach Skill Set” – a comprehensive tool box developed out of years of experience to strengthen your effectiveness and efficiency working with divorcing couples and families.

Registration: May 17: 4:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Programs: May 17: 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. (dinner included); May 18: 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Credits: 10 CEUs and 3 CLEs applied for.

Faculty: Anne Lucas, MA, LMHC, and Karen Bonnell, MS

Prerequisite: Basic Collaborative Law Training; Mediation (or equivalent) training

Location: Paramount Hotel, Seattle

Tuition: $250 (before 4/12/12), $275 (after 4/12/12)

We are required to collect 9.5% sales tax.

This is the entry training for Collaborative Law. It is essential Collaborative Law training  and perfect for those newly embarking on Collaborative Law, or those who wish to get a refresher or update. At this exciting training, you will learn:

• Skills and procedures for handling a Collaborative case from beginning to end, including a full step-by-step manual, checklists, and helpful forms.
• The roles and function of Collaborative team members, including the lawyer, financial specialist, coach and child specialist.
• An introduction to interest-based negotiations, facilitation and other skills to bring a collaborative case to successful conclusion.
• Stages of the Collaborative Law process.
• The psychological dynamics of a marital dissolution and how they impact your work.
• Ethics and ethical issues that face the Collaborative professional.
• How to develop a successful Collaborative practice.
• Essential skills and techniques needed to take your Collaborative Law practice to the next level.
• Step-by-step instruction to help you work more effectively in the Collaborative Law model and to help you facilitate and manage the negotiation of durable agreements using a client-centered process.
• How to successfully navigate through some of the problems for Collaborative Law practitioners.
• Learn some dispute resolution skills for a Collaborative Law.

This skills-focused training is taught by an interdisciplinary Collaborative team (lawyers, coach, and financial specialist), and includes demonstrations and hands-on practice.

To help you get through your first cases, all attendees receive a comprehensive manual on Collaborative Practice and a CD that contains valuable checklists, forms, handouts, and articles.

This course fulfills the 12-hour Basic Collaborative Law training requirements of local Collaborative Law organizations, and complies with training standards of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals.

Registration: 8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
Program: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Credits: 13.00 CLE credits (incl. 1.0 ethics) approved. Approved for 6.5 CEUs (provider #1975-272) for Psychologists, Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, and Licensed Mental Health Counselors by the National Association of Social Workers through Collaborative Professionals of Washington

Faculty: Rachel Felbeck, Anne Lucas, John Twitchell, and J. Mark Weiss

Tuition: $495 (before 8/24/12), $525 (after 8/24/12)

A group discount rate of $475 is available for groups of 2+ when all registration forms and payment are received together. Sorry, online registration is not available for the group discount.

We are required to collect 9.5% sales tax.

Location: Hotel Deca, 4507 Brooklyn Ave. NE Seattle, WA 98105

Every Collaborative Law case is handled as effectively as the team that is formed and works together. This workshop explores the Collaborative team in depth, including the characters and skills of successful teams. We will explore what makes teams effective and what might undermine team functioning, how do the roles of different players (including clients) impact the team, and team leadership needs and concerns. Topics include how to effectively form a team, select team members, shape common goals and visions, define and understand team roles, and feedback skills.

Registration: 8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
Program: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Credits: 6.0 Washington CLE ethics approved

Faculty: Rachel Felbeck and John Twitchell

Prerequisite: Basic Collaborative Law Training; Mediation (or equivalent) training

Location: Paramount Hotel, Seattle

Tuition: $225 (before 9/20/12), $250 (after 9/20/12)

A group discount rate of $210 is available for groups of 2+ when all registration forms and payment are received together. Sorry, online registration is not available for the group discount.

We are required to collect 9.5% sales tax.

This fast-moving skill-focused intermediate-level training picks up where basic training leaves off, covering a vast array of challenge areas that Collaborative Law practitioners are likely to face.

• Essential skills and techniques needed to take your Collaborative Law practice to the next level.
• Step-by-step instruction to help you work more effectively in the Collaborative Law model and to help you facilitate and manage the negotiation of durable agreements using a client-centered process.
• How to successfully navigate through some of the most vexing problems for Collaborative Law practitioners.
• Unique interest-based dispute resolution skills that can only be used in a Collaborative Law setting and are currently not well known in the Northwest.

Registration: 8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
Program: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Credits: 6.50 general CLE credits applied for

Faculty: Rachel Felbeck and J. Mark Weiss

Prerequisite: Basic Collaborative Law Training

Tuition: TBD

Location: TBD