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INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE TRAINING 40 HOURS

June 5, 6, 18, 19 & 20, 2025

(Program follows the Ontario Association of Collaborative Professionals (OACP) approved training requirements and is approved by LSO for 2 hrs EDI Professionalism, 11hrs.+ 25 mins Professionalism and 26 Substantive hours)

This is an Online Training

Day 1 and Day 2

Expanding the Toolbox: Skills You Need To Be a Collaborative Practitioner

  • Conflict Theories, Strategies, and Communication Styles.
  • Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Collaborative Practice
  • IPV and Power Imbalance and Managing Collaborative Files
  • Understanding the role of the Collaborative Professionals and their role in Collaborative Teams

Day 3 and Day 4

Learning the Collaborative Process

  • Overview of the Collaborative Process
  • Protocol Training
  • Choreography of the Collaborative File

Day 5

Consolidation of Theory and Practice

  • Get your “Shift” Together, Consolidate Concepts
  • Challenging Files
  • Team, Neutrality and Building a Collaborative Practice
  • Self-Care

This course will be an interactive program of videos, demonstrations, and role play to reinforce key concepts.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Understanding different conflict theories and conflict resolution strategies including interest based, but also adapting other strategies such as principled negotiation, insight, narrative, and transformative
  2. Understanding the roles of the interdisciplinary collaborative team
  3. Understanding how systemic and individual inequities, unconscious bias, and microaggressions impact others and our role as collaborative professionals
  4. Understanding the difference between equity, diversity, and inclusion and the importance of respecting the needs of the client and other team members at the collaborative table
  5. Adapting Collaborative Practice for IPV, power imbalance, and cultural issues
  6. Understanding the historical development of Interdisciplinary Collaborative Practice
  7. Understanding how the collaborative approach to family law issues differs from other forms of dispute resolution and the paradigm shift
  8. Understanding the key elements to collaborative practice, two lawyers, disqualification clause
  9. Understanding the key features of the process including the importance of addressing emotional, financial, and legal issues
  10. Understanding how interest-based negotiations differ from position-based negotiations
  11. How to engage clients in a collaborative process
  12. Understanding the importance of strong teams and team debriefing
  13. Developing a creative and flexible approach to solving family law problems
  14. How OACP and local practice groups support new practitioners. Connecting with mentors.

Practice Objectives:

  1. Better communication skills, listening skills, and questioning techniques
  2. Better management of strong emotions and people with high-conflict personalities
  3. Engaging your client and the other party in the collaborative process including the reluctant party
  4. Building a strong collaborative team and team communication
  5. Practicing self-care and protection from secondary trauma including building resilience

Lead Trainers:

Diane McInnis, Retired Advanced Collaborative Legal Professional (OACP), Family Mediator AccFM (OAFM)

Debbie Hoffman, Collaborative Legal Professional, Mediator

Annette Katchaluba, MSW, RSW, Collaborative Family Professional

Rob Hehl CBV, Collaborative Financial Professional

EDI professionalism

This program contains 2 hours of EDI professionalism content

 

 

Professionalism Content

This program contains 11 hours and 25 minutes of Professionalism Content

 

Click here to download the registration form.

 

Send this form and any registration questions to: dmcinnis@dmfamilylaw.ca

Training Questions?  Email Us!

Diane McInnis dmcinnis@dmfamilylaw.ca

Debbie Hoffman dhoffman@hdcollaborative.com

Annette Katchaluba annette@bypeacefulwaters.com