collaborative practice
POD Chairs Day – 12 March 2025
This event is free of charge for POD Chairs. This event was formally know as the Pod Liaison Offi...
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Top tips for nuptial agreements
Reality checking expectations and an awareness of the often very emotive nature of these agreemen...
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Collaborative and layering the approaches to dispute resolution
Layering aspects of other processes into the collaborative mix can help deal with imbalances and ...
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FP Conf 2023: Collaborative divorce: MELCA’s steps to success
A specialist collaborative approach running in Melbourne for over a decade provides a cost-effect...
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FP conf 2023: Enhancing the client experience by helping clients learn: introducing Insight Mediation
Family Mediation: Using an Advanced Hybrid Practice Model – March 2024
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This advanced hybrid practice model provides an invaluable additional resource to supplement the established family mediation model.

Mitigating financial uncertainty following divorce: benefits of lawyers and IFAs working together
The cost-of-living crisis is multi-faceted and will affect the vast majority of divorces. IFAs wo...
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Collaborative Practice Forum – 18 September 2023
This event is free of charge for Resolution members.
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Collaborative Practice Forum – 8th March 2023
This event is free of charge for Resolution members.
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Collaborative Foundation Training March 2023
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Collaborative practice templates and resources
This is the landing page for all resources for our collaborative members. Here you can download a...
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Family Mediation: Using an Advanced Hybrid Practice Model
This advanced hybrid practice model provides an invaluable additional resource to supplement the established family mediation model.
Collaborative Practice Forum
This event is free of charge for Resolution members.
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Dealing with tricky issues in collaborative cases
The focus of this workshop was to explore some of the tricky issues which can occur in collaborat...
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Collaborative Practice Forum
This is available free of charge for Resolution members.
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Developments in Dispute Resolution and Collaborative Practice
Family practice is changing now more rapidly than it ever has done before. Just imagine prior to ...
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Wellbeing in Collaborative Practice
The recently launched Resolution ‘Wellbeing in Family Law Report’ makes sobering, if not unsurpri...
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Introducing… Resolution’s Collaborative Working Party

Team work makes the collaborative dream work!
I was delighted to have been able to attend so many great sessions during the week of Resolution’s National Conference this year. As an enthusiastic collaborative practitioner and arbitrator, I was keen to sign up to the session on the new collaborative participation agreement, hosted by Angela Lake-Carroll and Adele Ballantyne.

Collaborative Practice Forum
This is available free of charge for Resolution members.
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Collaborative – Practice Support
In this section, you'll find Resolution's suite of resources for collaborative practitioners. This includes information on the scope of collaborative practice, how you become a collaborative practitioner, routes for professional development and much more.

Collaborative Practice Forum
This is available free of charge for Resolution members.

FIAMs within the collaborative setting
A Financial Initial Assessment Meeting is a financial health check that is best carried out early...
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Addendum to Participation Agreement for online video joint meetings
Conducting business over online video meetings will become the new normal during the COVID-19 pan...
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Experience of a Collaborative Client and a Collaborative Practitioner
Ruth Hare, Director of Reach Psychology Ltd and Associate Member of Resolution reveals how her pe...
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Family Consultants and Psychologists in Collaborative Practice
As dispute resolution practitioners, we constantly find ourselves navigating private aspects of h...
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Podcast: Financial neutrals and the collaborative process
In this podcast, Ian Hawkins, Mary Waring, and Phil O'Connor discuss the many benefits that can b...
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The rise of the neutral
Fiona Connah reports back on the seminar “The Rise of the Neutral – a systemic approach”, present...
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Collaborative Foundation Training
This three-day foundation course will explain and demystify the collaborative process, show how i...
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Collaborative Negotiation Skills
The course will focus on the importance for lawyers and clients in making the dynamic shift towar...
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Postponed – Deepening Without Drowning – Conflict Skills for Mediators and Collaborative Professionals
This one day course from Jacinta Gallant will focus on conflict skills for family professionals. It explores how asking about the parties' hopes and diving deeply into their perceived threats can bring fresh air to our family law work.

Our experience of working with clients in a team setting
In this article on collaborative practice for The Review Brian Cantwell and Mary Shaw talk about ...
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The future is in the room – towards a thriving and rewarding collaborative community
Top tips on running collaborative cases and getting the best out of teams

Participation agreement guidance
Resolution provides a template Participation Agreement and Addendum (dealing with remotely conduc...
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Ethical standards for collaborative practitioners (IACP)
Statement: Collaborative practice differs greatly from adversarial dispute resolution practice. I...
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Building a successful collaborative practice
In this video, Jo O'Sullivan, from Resolution's DR Committee, talks through how she built a succe...
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Collaborative Negotiation Skills
The course will focus on the importance for lawyers and clients in making the dynamic shift towards working collaboratively.
The collaborative process
The collaborative process helps you and your ex reach agreement more quickly than court and with the support of a multi disciplinary team.
Collaborative Practice Working Party
The Collaborative Practice Working Party was set up to engage and support practitioners involved in collaborative work.
DR Committee
The Dispute Resolution committee works across all areas of family dispute resolution, leading innovation in process and practice.

How do collaborative lawyers market themselves to clients?
Rob Parker gave a presentation detailing how collaborative lawyers in North Hampshire market their skills to clients, at the 2019 Pod Liasion Officer conference.
Nick Wynn-Williams wrote up this report.

Converting leads into collaborative cases
How do collaborative lawyers convert leads into cases? Collaborative Working Group co-chair Tasha Bevan-Stewart presented a talk about this at the Pod Liason Officer day, 2019.
Ashley Palmer and Ian Hawkins wrote up this report.

Arbitration under collaboration
Bernadette Hoy presented a session at PLO day 2019 looking at the quasi-judicial clause in the participation agreement and asked if it prevented clients and/or solicitors adopting the collaborative process.
Sandy Edwards, from Shropshire Collaborative Lawyers Group, wrote up this report.

Do we over-screen?
At the Pod Liaison Officer conference 2019, Collaborative Working Group co-chair Ian Hawkins asked the question do we screen out some clients because it is too difficult or because we don’t have the answers?
Kathryn Ferris wrote up this report from the day.