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UTS:LAW Professional Development (CLE/CDP)

Advanced Collaborative Practice

Collaborative Practice provides powerful tools for practitioners to resolve disputes in creative and deeply satisfying ways.

Potential Participants:

This course offers three separate days of topics which can be taken as individual days or combined. It is designed for practitioners who have taken basic training in Collaborative Law or Collaborative Practice and who already have a working understanding of the approach. i.e.
  • Legal practitioners
  • Mediators & Family Dispute Resolution Practitioners
  • Counsellors, psychologists & professionals
  • Family consultants & those professionals working inside or outside the court system
  • Child specialists, youth & adolescent workers
  • Accountants, financial & business advisors & assessors
  • Estate planners

Course Program:

Participants will learn about

  • The chronology & timeline of a completed case
  • The critical importance of comprehensive intake procedures - assessment & screening
  • Teaming - how and when to build the team, setting agendas, pre and de briefing
  • Managing team relationships - the difficult conversations
  • The challenges of a difficult case and creative alternatives for outcome
  • The power of the interdisciplinary team & the value added role of specialists
  • Know thyself - professional & personal development to assist professional effectiveness

Day One

Casework Timeline:

  • An entire day will be spent working a case from beginning to end.

Day Two

Challenges & Roadblocks:

  • Teams will work through complex case material and experience the possibilities for different outcomes.

Day Three

Special Topics:

  • Personal development to increase professional effectiveness
  • The whys & hows of individual triggering
  • Stress in collaborative practice - awareness & management
  • Team membership - privileges & responsibilities.

Presenters:

Dr Tina Sinclair

Tina is a registered psychologist, mediator and collaborative professional with broad experience having been in the counselling and mediation arenas for more than 30 years. She completed her undergraduate degree in Hobart, her masters in Calgary, Canada & her doctorate at Cambridge. She has had a private practice in Calgary for the past 30 years & has also practiced and lectured in northern British Columbia, & is currently establishing a practice in Tasmania. Tina has worked with corporations and academic institutions as an organizational consultant as well as a therapist and mediator. Tina is trained in Interdisciplinary Collaborative Practice, and works as the mental health member of the team as a parent coach, mediator neutral, or a child specialist. Tina has presented at trainings and conference workshops in England, Austria, Canada, USA & Australia. As a member of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals Tina is practicing & developing the Collaborative Law movement in Canada and Australia and is interested in continuing to provide trainings internationally.

Marilyn Scott

Marilyn, a Senior Law Lecturer co-ordinates the program in dispute resolution. Marilyn is a leading academic in the Dispute Resolution field and writes on, teaches and trains extensively in dispute resolution processes including negotiation, mediation and arbitration. Marilyn is an experienced legal practitioner, mediator and negotiation strategist and is admitted to practice in New South Wales and the Federal Court of Australia. She is a member of the NSW Law Society's panel of mediators and a Registered Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner. Marilyn is a member of the NSW Law Society's Dispute Resolution Committee and has also been a member of the Arbitration Liaison Committee. In 2003 Marilyn was first introduced to the concept of Collaborative Law whilst aVisiting Scholar at the Strauss Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University, California and was responsible for organizing and participating in the first training of practitioners in Collaborative practice in NSW and Queensland. Marilyn has co-trained with Marion Korn in Sydney and Brisbane in both the basic and advanced courses. Marilyn is a founding member of Collaborative Professionals (NSW) Inc and is currently Vice President.

Dates:

27 - 29 November 2008  

Venue:

UTS:LAW
Room 318, Level 3, Building 5B
Cnr Quay St & Ultimo Rd, , Haymarket NSW 2007

Cost:

$1250 (incl GST) for three days
$450 per day otherwise

CLE/CPD:

This training meets the requirements of Collaborative Professionals (NSW) Inc for inclusion on the website as a collaborative professional.

1 CLE/CPD point = 1 hour of participation

Registration:

Further information and enrolment details are available via the

Advanced Collaborative Practice Brochure (PDF)

Further information:

Professional Development Unit
p: +61 2 9514 3793
e: pdu.law@uts.edu.au