Who Ate the Kitty Treats?

Listen to Kids Talk About Talking About Parental Divorce

Inhale through your nose ("smell the cookies") and exhale through your mouth ("blow out the candles")

Best Approach to the practice of conflict management: 

1. Take our own pulse first.

2. Cultivate an attitude of gratitude.

3. Center ourselves for approach and neutrality.

4. Appreciate the people at every stage.

5. Be thankful for the process.

6. Continue with all of the above.

7. Ask ourselves whether we want to be RIGHT or be EFFECTIVE.

8. Release our own false pride.

9. Apologize for our part, our participation in the conflict; especially when it has been unintentional.

10. Repeat the above sequence as often as necessary until we feel relief.

Embrace the Therapeutic Justice Idea into Family Law Proceedings?

Jurisdictions have already begun to embrace some of the ideals of applying the principles of Therapeutic Justice into Family Law proceedings, whether they know it or not; whether they label it as such or not.

The factors are slipping their way into the field and I could not be more thrilled... The idea is about finding ways to heal our families, our communities... and so it goes...

The Value of an Apology: Insufficient? Relevant?