Collaborative Divorce and Mediation: Learning to Let Go Building Block #5 ~ Choice/Autonomy One of the greatest challenges in divorce is learning to let go and letting the other parent make decisions that affect your children’s lives without … [Read more...]
Divorce: Remain Present
February 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Divorced and Children ~ Wanna Go Shopping . . . This Too Shall Pass! The other day I wanted to go shopping. Now you have to understand I HATE shopping. Seriously, I really hate shopping. You may wonder why I would want to go shopping. … [Read more...]
Collaborative Divorce ~ The Power of Appreciations
February 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Building Block #3 - Appreciation and Acknowledgment In my previous blogs I spoke about the importance of establishing Connection and Listening when navigating life with your former after divorce. If you create a quality of connection at the … [Read more...]
Co Parenting: Need a Megaphone to Be Heard?
February 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Building Block #2 – LISTENING I touched briefly on the importance of LISTENING in my last blog on Building Block #1 – Connection. I want to elaborate on it here. When I talk about listening, I mean REALLY listening. Often when we listen, … [Read more...]
Divorce, Co Parenting and Collaboration: The Building Blocks
February 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I believe there are 5 essential qualities (or building blocks) that need to be present to successfully navigate conflict and disagreements. Without these five qualities, it is extremely difficult to let down one’s defenses in a conflict, see your … [Read more...]
Turning Conflict Into Opportunities
September 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I have been thinking about conflict a lot - perhaps because I work with people in conflict, perhaps because I am the parent of one teenage boy and one soon-to-be teenage boy! I think conflict has a bad rap. We shy away from conflict because we … [Read more...]
Compassion vs. Criticism
July 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I have had the privilege lately of sharing Nonviolent (Compassionate) Communication in a wide variety of settings from schools to prison and the common thread I find is that almost everyone asks, "Why don't they teach this in elementary school?" … [Read more...]
Speaking About Compassionate Communication
February 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
So maybe it's true - we all get our 15 minutes of fame, and perhaps I just got mine. While at the International Association of Collaborative Professionals, where I presented Nonviolent (Compassionate) Communication to Collaborative Professionals … [Read more...]
Making Changes
February 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Do you continue to make choices that do not serve you? Do you remain stuck in patterns that create dis-ease in your life. Do you tell yourself you have to change, yet you repeat the same patterns over and over again? If so, I invite you to … [Read more...]
Collaborative Law – A New Approach to Divorce
January 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
In Collaborative Law Practice, we work in teams with our clients to support them to transition their lives. Rather than fight in court, we sit together in 4-way meetings to find creative solutions that genuinely meet the unique needs of our … [Read more...]