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- New you tube posting of a CP Cal public service announcement! A way to connect your clients with collaborative professionals!
Click here to watch the video
- Mediation Intensive Training by the Center for Understanding in Conflict
Gary Friedman and Catherine Conner, through the Center for Mediation in Law and its new name, provide this training in California on Sept. 30-Oct. 4, 2009
- Collaborative Practice Trainers has released its 2009 schedule. These classes will be held at CSU East Bay Conference Center, 1000 Broadway, Oakland, California.
Following the two day Introductory Interdisciplinary Training in January 2009, stand-alone courses will be presented for collaborative professionals who have had some experience or who have at least completed a recent two-day interdisciplinary training.
- Northern California Mediation Center trainings now open for enrollment.
Parenting Coordination (Sept. 25-26), Alienated Child (June 5), and Fundamentals of Family Law for Mediators and Therapists (May 1), are all available; details at www.ncmc-mediate.org..
- Introductory Interdisciplinary Training for civil, commercial, estates/trusts and family law professionals
Collaborative Practice Trainers presents a two-day training in Oakland on June 19-20, 2009, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Enrollment fee: $500 for both days
- Did you miss the Fourth CP Cal Celebration?
You can purchase the CDs of each session
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Welcome to CP California
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- A divorcing couple arguing about custody, property and finances.
- Siblings arguing about elder care decisions or an inheritance.
- Business partners arguing about labor and management decisions.
- Family members arguing about family business succession or trust matters
- Landlords and tenants arguing about repair bills.
- Neighbors arguing about noise and boundaries.
Each of these, and other kinds of conflicts too, can lead to expensive
and time-consuming legal battles. Or they can be handled collaboratively.
Collaborative Practice is a new way to resolve conflicts in a respectful
and mutually agreed upon process. Rather than turning the decision-making
power over to a judge or other third party, control of the collaborative
solution is kept with the people directly involved in the dispute. When
issues about children are part of the dispute, their needs are placed
first. Clients and their attorneys are at the heart of a working team
which often includes mental health, financial and other professionals
as needed to provide information and help clients explore a variety
of solutions. The clients don't sign a settlement agreement until each
of them is comfortable with it.
What Makes This Different?
- All information is voluntarily shared as soon as possible.
- Good faith efforts to explore options are central to the process.
- Skills are developed which enable parties to handle new issues as they come up.
- Collaborative attorneys work only as settlement specialists, and disputing parties will need to hire other lawyers if any of the parties want to litigate.
- Participants can add neutral experts to their supportive team.
- Clients retain the power to create a resolution that fits their particular needs and priorities.
You are invited to explore Collaborative Practice and the California Collaborative Practice groups with specially trained collaborative professionals who can assist you in a healthy transition beyond conflict.
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