Webinar Description
This 2 hour webinar is designed for family mediators who are interested in enhancing their skillsets when working with parents in high conflict situations. Examples of high conflict situations will be highlighted along with eight successful mediator interventions that can be implemented and two mediator prohibitions to be avoided. These skills are appropriately used in the presence of factors that differentiate high conflict parents from separating/divorcing parents experiencing normal, everyday low intensity conflicts.
The importance of understanding negative reciprocity, and how mediators facilitate the use of cognitive skills in problem-solving with parents in this state will be discussed along with how emotions and cognitions influence each other and the decision making. We will identify and define a number of salient differentiating factors. All of us can join in discussing the practicality, utility and effectiveness of using mediation skills that facilitate the achievement of settlements by high conflict parents themselves, in their presence.
Dr. Desmond Ellis
Desmond Ellis is a Professor Emeritus based in the La Marsh Centre for Research on Children and Youth, Faculty of Health, York University. During his tenure at York, he was appointed to the Domestic Violence Subcommittee to the Federal U.S. Uniform Collaborative Law Act Task Force and the Advisory Committee, Family Mediation Service, Superior Court of Justice, Toronto. He also served as a Board member for Conflict Mediation Services, Downsview, Ontario, published a number of research reports, books and articles on separation and divorce mediation and created the La Marsh Centre on Violence and Conflict Resolution and the Certificate Program in Dispute Resolution. His most recent book - Domestic Violence: A Practical Handbook for Family Lawyers- was published by Lexis-Nexis in 2019. He was recently appointed by Justice Canada to the Family Violence Advisory Group set up to implement national family violence User Guidelines for family violence practitioners to identify and respond to family violence.
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