What skills and attitudes are involved in being a Collaborative Practice professional?  In being a ‘peacemaker’?  How do we work with others who might have ‘slipped’ from their best attitudes and skills? Don’t forget to share your thoughts in the comment section below. Today’s Guest:   Mark B. Baer, JD  Pasadena, CA www.markbaeresq.com  Here’s a piece by Mark that we’ve published. (Would you like to join us for a future conversation? We’ll have room for up to four people. Sign up here for our email list. We send out notices and details of when and how you can join in the discussion.)...

“I’m ‘collaborative’ and you’re not.” How do we work then that comes up?  What does it mean?  These questions are at the center of our discussion today.  We first cover the situation of one professional not having received even Basic Collaborative Practice training.  We talk as well about the role Practice Groups can play here.  And we found that this is a topic that will likely carry us through several sessions.  Later in the conversation we also talked about how that interplays with the differing challenges facing the members of each profession approaching Collaborative Practice. Don’t forget to...

How does a new trainee break into Collaborative Practice?  How do Collaborative Practice and Mediation ‘relate’?  Is one necessary or sufficient for the other?  These questions are at the center of our discussion today.  Don’t forget to share your thoughts in the comment section below. Today’s Guests:   Carol Miller, LCPC   Downers Grove, IL   Profile   Kevin Scudder, JD   Seattle, WA   www.scudderlaw.net  (Would you like to join us for our next conversation? We’ll have room for up to four people. Sign up here for our email list.  We send out notices and details of when and how you can join in the discussion.)...

Guest Stacey Langenbahn has stepped out of her comfort zone big time.  She is offering Mediation services in a way that is uncommon on her home turf.  We discuss the elements of Collaborative Practice that contributed to her step.  And along the way, a little bit about the challenges of ‘standing out’.  [For reference, in her area Mediation is rarely if ever available except as a ‘last effort’ just before trial.  Stacey offers it PRE-court.] Today’s Guest:   Stacey Langenbahn Cooleyville, TX   www.divorcemediationtexas.com  (Would you like to join us for our next conversation? We’ll have room for up to...