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Expand your
Collaborative Toolbox
Collaborative Professionals have told us... Experienced practitioners need more advanced learning opportunities!
In addition to the IACP Basic Training, the 2012 IACP Institute has been developed to meet the advanced educational needs of more experienced practitioners. in smaller, more intimate classroom settings to encourage in-depth discussions and meaningful, hands-on learning. Become a more well-equipped Collaborative practitioner! Click on the following links below to learn more about the courses: To enroll at the IACP Institute, click here. To learn more about the courses, click here. More on the IACP Institute Faculty, click here. Downtown Phoenix Map Parking Information To reserve your room at the special IACP rate, please book at the following hotels: Westin Downtown Phoenix Holiday Inn Express in Downtown Phoenix |
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Gain a strong foundation in
Collaborative Practice
Want to complete a Basic Training that meets IACP Standards? Want to review core competencies? Do you or someone you know want to get started in Collaborative Practice?
Join Rita Pollak, JD; Donna Smalldon, MBA, CDFA, CFP and Yuval Berger, MSW, RSW for a three-day Basic Interdisciplinary Training to gain a strong foundation in Collaborative Practice.
- You'll learn the elements of Collaborative Practice.
- Learn the role of each professional in the Collaborative Divorce process and how they function and communicate as a team.
- Understand more fully how a professional team works to address client needs during the divorce process.
- Demonstrate skill sets involved in conducting a first client interview in the Collaborative model.
- Obtain information and tools helpful in advising clients about process options.
- Learn techniques to help address challenges in the Collaborative process.
- Understand the differences between "friendly litigation" and the Collaborative process and the shift in outlook needed to practice collaboratively.
To learn more about the Basic Training, click here.
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Improve your effectiveness in Collaboration.
Better understand and communicate with
clients whose backgrounds are different
from your own.
Join Nina Meierding, MS, JD for this highly interactive two-day Advanced training that focuses on cultural and gender prototypes (not stereotypes). You will explore creative options and brainstorm ways to move beyond specific differences to become more productive, more understanding and more effective in both your professional and life skills. - You'll learn perceptions of fairness and truth
- Processing styles (monochronic and polychronic)
- Views on time
- Styles of verbal communication
- Attitudes towards risk and uncertainty
- Individualistic and collective relationship frameworks
- High and low power distance
- Body language
- Rapport, report and trouble talk
- Differences in validation styles
- Direct and indirect speech (including hedging and qualifiers)
- The art of ritual opposition
- Humor missteps
- Cross talking vs. interrupting
- The art of apology across genders
- Gender related power distance
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Deconstruct traditional notions of
advocacy and explore concepts of advocacy
within Collaborative Practice
In this two-day Advanced skills-based interactive workshop, Nancy Cameron, Q.C.
and Julie Macfarlane, Ph.D. will help you become more self-aware of your
current negotiation patterns and re-evaluate them. Interactive group discussions cover
topics such as:
- The challenges of evolving to Collaborative advocacy.
- How Collaborative advocacy affects the lawyer-client relationship.
- Client's conventional expectations of us as advocates; where do these assumptions come from; and how do these notions shape your relationship with your clients?
To enroll for Effective Advocacy in Collaborative Practice ($395), click here.
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Develop tools enabling you to enhance your
services, manage risk, create sustainable agreements
and provide effective client relationships.
Join Jennifer Kresge, LMFC in this two-day interactive Advanced course to explore
the most useful and constructive tool, the brain. You will examine the mind, explore
the benefits of neuroplasticity, delve into the challenge of emotion, and look at the
creation of meaning and memory.
In addition to developing tools to enhance your services and provide effective client
relationships, you will:
- Study how to apply this knowledge in Collaborative Practice to develop an understanding of your clients.
- You will examine the diversity involved and the essential skills necessary to create an effective interface.
- Explore the role of ethics as you learn how to use your knowledge responsibly in the conversation of Collaborative Practice.
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Improve your Collaborative Practice.
What technology tools make sense for you?
In this one-day advanced training, Jim Calloway, JD, will discuss innovative ideas
about practice management, including improving your Collaborative Practice with
powerful checklists and determining what technology tools make sense for you.
Explore web-based collaboration tools and mobile technology as well as privacy and confidentiality concerns. Learn about each of the social media tools, and which ones
make sense for busy professionals.
Come away from this course knowing about: - How to enhance your Collaborative Practice with technology tools.
- Privacy and confidentiality issues when using technology.
- Managing social media channels for communication and marketing.
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How do you do it? Stress can lead to
Vicarious Trauma. Know the symptoms.
Join Vicki Carpel Miller, BSN, MS, LMFT and Ellie Izzo, Ph.D., LPC in this one-day Advanced course. Vicarious Trauma refers to the cumulative impact of trauma that client stories have on the professional. This experience may result in a set of cognitive, emotional, physical and spiritual symptoms and reactions that closely parallel Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Vicarious Trauma has the potential to exact a huge toll, including damage to brain cells, resulting in disruptions in the cognitive schema of our identity, memory and belief system. It may also result in physical illness, feelings of incompetence, cynicism, isolation, mitigated boundary judgment and diminished self control.
This interactive and experiential workshop is designed to educate all professionals about Second-Hand Shock, how it affects our lives and practices, and what we can do to directly attend to this occupational hazard.
- Recognize the symptoms of Vicarious Trauma and learn about coping strategies.
- Understand and respect your own limits.
- Learn about the neuroscience of controlled empathy, trauma and Vicarious Trauma.
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Reinvigorate your community.
Become a trainer.
Does your Practice Group need to offer Basic Training? Do you wish to be a Trainer?
IACP provides the know-how and materials to help you make it happen. In this one-day
Advanced course, Diane Diel, JD; Susan Miller, MA, CPA, CDFA, CFP and Nancy
J. Ross, LCSW, BCD will provide the foundation you need to develop and customize the Curriculum and Materials in order to provide successful Basic Training to new
Collaborative practitioners.
In this course, you will:
- Gain confidence that you and your own training team can work together to design and present a successful Basic Interdisciplinary Training.
- Understand the importance of clearly identifying the learning objectives for your Basic Interdisciplinary Training and how to articulate them.
- Understand the basics of adult education and incorporate the basics in training.
- Provide a set of options and tools for appropriate adult interactive learning experiences.
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