I ‘discovered’ Collaborative Practice in 1999.  Of course it was only ‘new’ to me.  Stu Webb had started the ball rolling in the late 1980s. Most of what appealed to me about it was that it offered a way to work with people that did NOT involve the courts.  Instead it focused solely on helping them to reach decisions they could both live with.  Whether or not one of them was ‘right’ was irrelevant.  What some third party – a judge or a legislature – thought did not have to determine the outcome for them. To me this was huge.  It was a large part of what Stu and others were calling the Paradigm...