Events: Collaborative Council of the Redwood Empire: collaborative family law attorneys, mental health professionals and financial experts helping people to Resolve Disputes Respectfully and avoid going to court. Separation & divorce, child custody and support, property division, alternative dispute resolution.

Monthly CCRE meetings will all be on Wednesdays in 2013 and alternate between lunch and dinner. There will no longer be Tuesday meetings.

Wednesday April 17, 2013: lunch brown bag at CAP: Cognitive Traps in Negotiations, Arlene Kostant click here for flyer
Thursday April 25: On Playing a Poor Hand Well:
Resiliency & Protective Factors in Overcoming Childhood Risks and Adversity
Mark Katz, Ph.D. click here for flyer
April 26-28, 2013: CPCal Celebration, Manhattan Beach
Wednesday May 22, 2013: dinner: Are Your Clients Ready for Compromise?
The 1st Goal in Gottman's Conflict Blueprint with Lisa Lund, CRC, MFT
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Wednesday June 26, 2013: lunch
Wednesday July 24, 2013: dinner
Wednesday August 28, 2013: lunch
Wednesday September 25, 2013: dinner
October 18-20, 2013: IACP Forum in San Antonio, TX
Wednesday October 23, 2013: lunch brown bag at CAP
Wednesday November 20, 2013: dinner
Wednesday December 18, 2013: lunch

**Unless otherwise indicated, all meetings will be at the Hilton Sonoma Wine Country

Board meetings will precede dinner/lunch by one and one-half hours

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Presented by Collaborative Practice Trainers, www.collaborativepracticetrainers.org.

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EVENTS AND TRAININGS:

May 17-18: 2-DAY BASIC TRAINING
TWO DAY BASIC FULL TEAM INTERDISCIPLINARY TRAINING IN EMERYVILLE, CA. (between Berkeley & Oakland). Presented by the Sacramento Collaborative Practice Group Training Team (4 attorneys, 2 financial specialists & 2 coaches/child specialists) for the 9th time. All presenters in attendance throughout the course to introduce each participant to the theories, practices and skills needed to begin a collaborative practice and satisfy the minimum standards of IACP for basic training. It will also be helpful to those wishing to refresh their initial training. Course materials and handouts will include Agreements, Forms, Sample Letters, Protocols for each discipline and other materials used in the team model by the Sacramento Group, an association of 105 members in the Greater Sacramento Region. MCLE & BBS units provided.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION - Contact Lindie@DivorceWithRespect.com or call her or Hal Bartholomew at 916-455-5200. Also - registration materials will shortly be on http://www.divorceoption.com

October 18-20, 2013: IACP Forum in San Antonio, TX

DIVORCE OPTION WORKSHOPS

NOTES:
AFCC: Association of Family and Conciliation Courts: http://www.afccnet.org
NCMC: (http://www.ncmc-mediate.org)
SCBA: (Sonoma County Bar Association)
MHLS: Mental Health Section
SCPG: Sacramento Collaborative Practice Group Training Team