COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE TORONTO presents…
Save the Date:
a Full-Day Workshop on Friday, January 22, 2016
“The Place for Conflict in the Collaborative Process”
Rita Pollock and Linda Solomon, internationally renowned trainers and practitioners, will provide a one-day workshop which will explore the meaning of conflict in the collaborative practice. Mark your calendars this is an event not to be missed!
Registration Details to Follow.
Research tells us that 95% of people are conflict avoidant. What does that mean? Are you? How do you know? If so, how do you manage conflict in the collaborative process?
Learning about a variety of conflict response and management styles helps us make the most of conflict, in the case, on the Team, at work, at play and at home. Is your primary style to Avoid conflict? To Compromise? Cooperate? To Jump into the fray? Does it change or remain the same depending on the setting, circumstances, players?
How does your conflict management style ‘line-up’ with those of your clients, colleagues, Team-mates; maybe it’s a good thing if it doesn’t.
Participants will consider the meaning, the challenge and the potential benefit of conflict in our cases, as well as our collaborative communities. Learning about our own preferred style and how to make it work with others will enhance the effectiveness of our collaborative work and may lead to a deeper, more satisfying outcome for the clients.
LINDA SOLOMON, LPC, LMFT, LCDC
8330 MEADOW ROAD, SUITE 114
DALLAS, TEXAS 75231
214 361 8771
LINDA SOLOMON is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She has been in private practice in Dallas, Texas for 30 years. Her work with individuals, couples and families has focused on relationship issues and addictive behaviors. She is actively involved in the collaborative team approach, working as a Neutral Mental Health Professional and was instrumental in the development of the role. She is also trained as a Mediator and a Parenting Coordinator.
Linda has presented training on coaching and collaborative practice nationally in locations such as Toronto, New York, Boston, Nova Scotia, Orlando, Minneapolis, Tampa, and Pittsburgh and internationally in Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. She has presented at annual IACP Forums in Washington, Boston, Atlanta, San Antonio, Toronto and Vancouver on such diverse topics as The Role of the Neutral Mental Health Professional, Balancing Neutrality in the Process and A Comparison of the One Coach and Two Coach Team Approach. . Linda was also part of the 2013 IACP Institute introductory training team with Malcolm McCollam and Scott Clarke.
She is a member of the Lone Star Collaborative Training Team and serves as a mentor to other mental health professionals in various parts of the world. She is a former board member of IACP and The Collaborative Law Institute of Texas. She served as Co-Chairman of CLI-TX Collaborative Conference in 2010 and was Chairperson of the conference the following year. In addition, she has served on the planning committee for the conference several times.
Linda continues to be committed to helping collaborative practice spread throughout the world with particular focus on the team approach. She is passionate about her profession having a clear understanding of the role on a collaborative team and helping the other professions understand how mental health professionals will contribute to the process.
RITA S. POLLAK
Rita S. Pollak is an experienced collaborative family law attorney, trainer, mediator and facilitator. She is Past-President of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP) and was the co-founder and first President of the Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council. She has presented at the annual IACP Forums since 2003, co-chairing the Forum in Boston in 2004 and presenting at the IACP Institutes in Phoenix, AZ., Milan, Italy and on the Gold Coast in Australia. As President of IACP, Attorney Pollak was a featured speaker at the First European Collaborative Law Conference in Vienna, Austria in 2007.
She has been fortunate to present at the second European Collaborative Law conference in Cork, Ireland and to co-teach with Dr. Cathy Heenan, 5 times in the Netherlands, creating a Step-by-Step curriculum to the interdisciplinary collaborative process.
In 2009, Attorney Pollak spoke at the Israel Bar Association in Tel Aviv and in 2013 presented 2 workshops in Israel; one on the One Coach Approach and a second on Managing Impasse. In 2013 Attorney Pollak was an IACP sponsored guest lecturer in Auckland, New Zealand, in Melbourne and Brisbane Australia and was invited for a return engagement in 2014 to Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, Australia as well as to Auckland, New Zealand, with Linda Solomon.
She is a past-President of the Massachusetts chapter of AFCC and was a co-founder and co-facilitator of monthly holistic lawyers meetings at Suffolk University Law School. Attorney Pollak was named Best Lawyer in America in Collaborative Family Law in 2008, 2009 and 2010, as well as one of the Best Lawyers in Boston, in Collaborative Law in 2008, 2009 and 2010. In 2010 she moved to Tucson, Arizona where she continues to teach, travel and train.
Attorney Pollak is Chair of the Leadership Council at the Center for Community Dialogue, in Tucson, Arizona, an organization dedicated to fostering skillful discussion of complex issues in the community. She also volunteers for the Community Justice Board, a first-time youth offender diversion program and Make-Way for Books, promoting early childhood literacy.