As the Holiday season is approaching, I always get out my To Do and my Gifts to Buy lists. As you may likewise do, I separate my Personal Friends and Family List from my Business List. For my business gifts, I try to come up with something different than the box of sausage and cheese from Hickory Farms. This year, instead of (or maybe, in addition to) the box of peppermint bark, I am committed to … [Read more...] about Practice Tip – Preserving Relationships with Grace and Thanks
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December 2023 5th Noon -1:00 pm CDT Lunch and Learn Speaker: David Brunson, Topic: The Psychology of Money and the Collaborative Divorce Process (Zoom) 7th -8th Collaborative Law Institute's Collaborative Law Annual Forum St Paul, Minnesota January 2024 10th Noon - 1:00 pm CDT Statewide Practice Group Meeting (Zoom) February 2024 14th … [Read more...] about What’s Going On In the Collaborative Community
Practice Tip – How can the Collaborative Professional Team prepare clients for offline financial meetings?
Most of my offline client meetings (not including the entire team) involve both the attorney and the client. It’s important that we have a set meeting purpose that is relevant to where we are on the roadmap and that we make sure we accomplish what is possible for the need of each role. In most cases, these meetings are to prepare the client for joint option development or later … [Read more...] about Practice Tip – How can the Collaborative Professional Team prepare clients for offline financial meetings?
What’s Going On In the Collaborative Community
September 2023 13th Noon - 1:00 pm CDT Statewide Practice Group Meeting (Zoom) Register to attend and a Zoom link will be sent prior to the meeting 20th, 21st and 22nd CDT Basic Interdisciplinary Training Trainers: Dr. Honey Sheff, David Brunson, Melinda Eitzen and Julie Quaid (In Person Dallas) More details to follow. October 2023 3rd Noon -1:00 pm CDT … [Read more...] about What’s Going On In the Collaborative Community
Be An Active Participant In CDT’s New Statewide Practice Group
In Collaborative Divorce Texas’s continuing efforts to grow Collaborative Divorce in Texas and provide support for its membership, CDT has created a Statewide Practice Group to afford opportunity for collaborative professionals statewide to convene and converse about all things collaborative, including education, marketing, case studies, problem solving, networking, and mentoring. CDT … [Read more...] about Be An Active Participant In CDT’s New Statewide Practice Group
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August 2023 25th 11:00 am - 2:00 pm IACP’s 2023 Seminar Series: Bargaining in the Shadow of the Heart: Integrating Emotional and Intellectual Intelligence in Collaborative Practice, presented by Stephen H. Sulmeyer, J.D., Ph.D. September 2023 1st, 8th, and 15th 11:00 am - 2:00 pm IACP’s 2023 Seminar Series: Bargaining in the Shadow of the Heart: Integrating Emotional and … [Read more...] about What’s Going On In the Collaborative Community
Diversity In Practice
If we want to diversify our collaborative community and serve a more diverse clientele, we need to make welcoming spaces. Recently Florida collaborative professionals took a major step in that direction by forming a new practice group, not defined by geographic location but based on its members being fluent in Spanish, the Hispano Collaborative Pros. There are no geographic limits. If you are a … [Read more...] about Diversity In Practice
Practice Tip – Fear and Divorce: The BASIC Framework Solution
Because our clients depend on us during their divorce crisis, we are the “go-to” people they will lean on for support, direction, and protection. Optimal functioning will occur when the clients feel safe enough to take in the information and support we offer. To accomplish a climate of physiological and psychological safety, we create a BASIC framework combined of different but interrelated … [Read more...] about Practice Tip – Fear and Divorce: The BASIC Framework Solution
What’s Going On In the Collaborative Community
July 2023 20th 6:00 pm Team Thursday Event Collin County Collaborative Practice Group. For more information, contact Camille Scroggins at camille@ccscrogginslaw.com August 2023 7th 4:30 pm Presentation of Gay G. Cox Award at Advanced Family Law Conference - Marriott River Center, San Antonio 8th Noon CDT Luncheon during Advanced … [Read more...] about What’s Going On In the Collaborative Community
Practice Tip: Helping Client Identify Interests
The collaborative law model is built around interest-based negotiation. In contrast to positional bargaining strategies common to the family law litigation model, interest-based negotiation starts with a premise that knowing and disclosing the clients’ genuine interests at the start of negotiation allows for more effective and efficient resolutions to be reached. Helping clients to identify and … [Read more...] about Practice Tip: Helping Client Identify Interests
