Collaborative Training Opportunities

MCLC is committed to offering in-depth introductory trainings as well as high quality advanced trainings for our membership. These trainings are geared towards our diverse membership of collaborative practitioners, including legal professionals, financial professionals, and coaching professionals.

MCLC’s Collaborative Law Training Opportunities
for 2010-2011, include:

Kenneth Cloke Advanced Negotiation Skills:
Deepening Your Role as a Collaborative Professional. Bentley University, June 10th & 11th, 2010.

Periodic advanced trainings, such as Cloke’s above and Mosten’s below, build upon the basic training, in such areas as business valuation skills, relationship preservation, professional coaching and legal strategies to maintain and advance the Collaborative engagement to facilitate the best, most efficient and comprehensive resolutions, avoiding the potential for repetitive or continuing litigation efforts.

Collaborative Practice Interdisciplinary Training:
A Step-by-Step Approach to Conflict Resolution. Bentley University, September 23-25, 2010. This three day training will proceed step-by-step through the collaborative process. The program is designed for social workers, psychologists, mental health professionals, financial professionals, family and probate attorneys and civil law practitioners.

The training covers in detail subject matter as diverse as what is collaborative law, how the collaborative law divorce or a collaborative dispute resolution model can maximize the potential for productive, positive post-dispute relationships, how legal professionals, financial professionals, relationship coaches, child specialists and life and business coaches can participate and enhance the Collaborative process, and find new tools for resolving disputes within their already existing client base.

Forrest S. (“Woody”) Mosten, J.D. Advanced Training:
March 11th & 12th, 2011. Woody Mosten is an internationally recognized and acclaimed collaborative professional, mediator, presenter and author. He is the acclaimed author of Collaborative Divorce Handbook.

Finally, most areas in Massachusetts boast a vibrant and mutually supportive practice group, which continually reinforces and enhances the ongoing collaborative trainings to encourage professional development and skill sharpening. Prospective basic trainees are encouraged and invited to attend two practice group sessions prior to their training, to establish rapport and to learn about the community of collaborative practitioners in their areas.

See the Collaborative Calendar for further details regarding trainings.