DATE:
     Friday, December 4, 2009 (9:00 am – 4:00 pm)

LOCATION:

Northern San Rafael, CA

(15 miles north of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, exact location TBA)

FEE:     $195.   (Early registration is $150 by 10/23/09; $175 if by 11/6/09)

CE CREDITS:    MCLE & BBS (5.5 hours); MCEP (6 hours to be submitted)

DESCRIPTION:
This workshop offers practical tools for professionals to help clients reduce acrimony, manage conflict, and enhance co-parenting, communications, and negotiations. It integrates pertinent research on resiliency, the brain, conflict, impulse control, and motivation with a modern day “parent-business” approach. The tools are designed to provide options for facilitating emotional disengagement from “negative intimacy”, keeping children out of the middle, encouraging respectful and effective co-parenting, and guidelines for parallel parenting. Case examples will be discussed and materials will include handouts suitable for clients.

This seminar is relevant to the work of mediators, custody evaluators, collaborative law practitioners, parent coaches, family lawyers, judges, and therapists who are working in various capacities with separation and divorcing parents.

About the Instructor:

Isolina Ricci, a licensed marriage and family therapist and family mediator, is one of the first to promote two homes for children after divorce and to offer divorce counseling and mediation. She originated the “Parenting Agreement” in 1974 along with the “parent business” relationship for co-parenting. Many of her concepts, later memorialized in her classic Mom’s House, Dad’s House (1980, 1997), have now become accepted standards. She headed the Statewide Office of Family Court Services for the California Administrative Office of the Courts for 14 years, is a Rockefeller Bellagio Scholar, and the recipient of awards for outstanding contributions and achievements from the Academy of Family Mediators and both the California and international Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. Her latest book is “Mom’s House, Dad’s House for KIDS” (2006). She is a confidential consultant to attorneys and therapists, maintains a private practice, and provides continuing education for professionals.