INTRODUCTORY COURSE
COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE TRAINING
for Wills and Estates
Introductory Collaborative Practice Training
2 DAY WORKSHOP
This workshop teaches the interdisciplinary model of Collaborative Practice, enabling differing professional disciplines to work together to assist grieving families resolve their estate dispute or facilitate family succession conversations before death.
This program would also suit anyone who has completed an introductory program before but is seeking a “refesher” course with specific training in the wills and estates context.
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Early Bird: $997
Full Price: $1147
Help grieving families resolve their estate dispute, or facilitate pre-death family succession arrangements with a compassionate and collaborative approach.
Join Collaborative Estates Lawyer, Zinta Harris and her co-presenter for a 2-day workshop that will teach you the skills you need to be able to offer an alternative resolution pathway to your clients. After completing the introductory course (delivering 16 CPD points, including 1 Ethics point) you will qualify to register as a collaborative practitioner in your state and with the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals.
This program is designed for all professionals working with families facing an estate dispute (before death or after death) including:
- wills and estates lawyers
- counsellors
- psychologists
- coaches
- financial planners
- accountants
This course is suitable for anyone already registered as a collaborative professional seeking a refresher course or specific training in the wills and estates context.
Introductory Course Program Outline
Day 1:
- Theory and Understanding Collaborative Practice
- Understanding the different models of Collaborative Practice, roles, and attributes of the participants
- Foundations of a Collaborative Matter
- Core Skills of a Collaborative Professional
- Overview of the Collaborative Process
- The First Client Interview
- Introduction to Collaborative Agreements
Day 2:
- Preparing for the First Collaborative Meeting
- Holding the First Collaborative Meeting
- Minutes, Holding Pattern Agreements
- Information Gathering
- Further Collaborative Meetings
- Reaching Resolution Finalisation & Documentation
- Ethical Guidelines
- Establishing your Collaborative Practice
Day 1:
- Theory and Understanding Collaborative Practice
- Understanding the different models of Collaborative Practice, roles, and attributes of the participants
- Foundations of a Collaborative Matter
- Core Skills of a Collaborative Professional
- Overview of the Collaborative Process
- The First Client Interview
- Introduction to Collaborative Agreements
Day 2:
- Preparing for the First Collaborative Meeting
- Holding the First Collaborative Meeting
- Minutes, Holding Pattern Agreements
- Information Gathering
- Further Collaborative Meetings
- Reaching Resolution Finalisation & Documentation
- Ethical Guidelines
- Establishing your Collaborative Practice
Meet Your Program Trainer and Co-presenters
Meet Your
Program Trainer
and Co-presenters
Zinta Harris is the owner of Resolve Estate Law, a Brisbane-based Accredited Succession Law & Business Law Specialist, Collaborative Lawyer, and Mediator, Owner, Resolve Estate Law (formerly Harris Law).
Zinta Harris is the owner of a boutique specialist estates law firm, Resolve Estate Law. Zinta is passionate about brokering peaceful resolutions to family disputes over inheritance so that “family wars” are avoided.
After over 20 years practising as a wills and estates lawyer, Zinta has seen firsthand the impact of estate battles on hundreds of families. She now specialises in helping grieving families stay out of Court and work together to reach an early resolution to their estate dispute.
Zinta Harris is the author of the book “Rest in Peace – how to manage an estate dispute without inheriting heartache”. The book was awarded the Australian Book Awards’ ‘Best General Business Book’ 2019. She also writes the popular blog “Catching the Curveball” which provides regular commentary on issues relating to grief, loss, estates law, family, parenting, love and life.
Zinta’s aim is to create a new path for grieving families by keeping them out of Court and minimising the emotional and financial toll of an estates battle so that they have the freedom to grieve peacefully and get on with living life without conflict. Zinta was named the 2019 WLAQ Trailblazer of the Year and Lawyers Weekly 2019 Sole Practitioner of the Year for her work in this area.
ANNE-MARIE RICE
Co-presenter – QLD
Anne-Marie has been working in legal dispute resolution for almost 20 years and during that time she has helped many hundreds of clients resolve their conflict and move forward with their lives.
Guiding the successful resolution of legal disputes involves a detailed understanding of much more than just the law and Anne-Marie’s work with those who find themselves in conflict with family, colleagues, employers or others, is focussed on finding a lasting compromise rather than just “winning the legal battle”.
Anne-Marie has spent many years investing in the skills necessary to quickly understand clients’ legal and personal needs so that she is able to bring certainty, purpose and warmth to any mediation or collaborative law process. Anne-Marie has worked consistently in the collaborative model since 2006, has spoken at various local and international conferences on the concept of “positive problem solving” and has trained hundreds of lawyers and other professionals who want to find a better way to help their clients.
Anne-Marie is the 2018 WLAQ Leneen Forde AC Woman Lawyer of the Year and her acceptance speech, in which she looked the traditional, adversarial model of dispute resolution squarely in the eyes, has become a social media sensation. The speech “Why Tired Matters” can be read or viewed at www.annemarierice.com.au.
In 2019 Anne-Marie received the Queensland Law Society’s inaugural Outstanding Accredited Specialist award for her contributions to educating fellow practitioners and for outstanding leadership in her field.
Anne-Marie’s commitment to changing the way lawyers approach their work has seen her featured in the media and most recently on the SBS flagship current affairs program Insight. Anne-Marie’s 1:1 interview with Jenny Brockie has been viewed over 130,000 times and can be seen here: www.facebook.com/InsightSBS/videos/jenny-1-on-1-burnout/406822059986306/
SHELBY TIMMINS
Co-presenter – NSW
Accredited Mediator, Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner, Parenting Coordinator, Conflict Coach and Collaborative Professional.
Before stepping away from the ‘dark side’ of family law, Shelby Timmins was an Accredited Family Law Specialist.
Shelby holds a Masters in Law from the University of Sydney, is a Nationally Accredited Mediator, Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner, Parenting Coordinator, Conflict Coach, Collaborative Professional and Doyles 2019 recommended mediator.
Shelby is a training faculty member of the International Association of Collaborative Professionals, Collaborative Professionals (NSW) Inc and President of Southern Sydney Collaborative Professionals.
Shelby has over 18 years experience as a family lawyer and spent much of this at one of Sydney’s most respected specialist Family Law firms.
Shelby is now an author and presenter in the area of family dispute resolution and interdisciplinary collaborative practice.
Shelby is passionate about doing things differently in the family law space and is determined to get parties, their lawyers and other professionals to look at separation, divorce and the breakdown of families in a more respectful and future focussed way. With this in mind, Shelby stepped aside from practising law and established a boutique family law dispute resolution practice “Divorce Done Differently” which specialises in mediation, interdisciplinary collaborative practice, conflict coaching, separation and divorce support and family law wellness workshops. www.divorcedonedifferently.com.au
Meet Your Guest Presenters
Meet Your
Guest Presenters
Ben Cohen (partner Bartley Cohen) – Guest Presenter Brisbane
As an expert in lawyers’ professional negligence claims and disciplinary proceedings, chair of the QLS Ethics Committee and former member of the QLS Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee, Ben Cohen is uniquely placed to address the ethical and risk issues that collaborative professionals face delivering this new and unique form of dispute resolution to families in conflict.
Stafford Shepherd (Director QLS Ethics & Practice Centre) – Guest Presenter Brisbane
Stafford is the “go to” ethical guidance officer for lawyers across Qld and has responsibility for assisting practitioners to have a better understanding of the ethical dynamics of collaborative practice. He is also the executive editor of the “Australian Solicitors Conduct Rules 2012 in Practice: A Commentary for Australian Legal Practitioners”. In our eyes, this makes Stafford the leading Qld authority on all things ethics for collaborative practice.
Lynda McKie (Senior Wealth Adviser, Elston) – Guest Presenter Brisbane
Lynda is a collaboratively trained financial adviser working regularly with collaborative teams advising on financial settlement matters which involve family businesses, corporate structures and Self-Managed Superannuation Funds to find outcomes for parties engaged in non-court based dispute resolution. Lynda speaks from her years of experience, on the power of neutral financial advice in collaborative family dispute resolution.
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Have you already completed the Introductory Course but want to improve your basic skills? Then join Zinta Harris for a 1-day masterclass to do just that! Open to those already trained in CP for Wills and Estates from ALL STATES to be held at a QLD beach location on 4 June 2020!
Early Bird $459
Full Price $559
SKILLS Expansion
This 1-day intensive training – run by wills and estates accredited specialist, Zinta Harris – is for coaches, counsellors and financial neutrals who are already experienced Collaborative Professionals in Family Law – who want to learn how to translate their skill set for the wills and estates contexts.
Early Bird $459
Full Price $559
Advanced
Have you already completed the Introductory Course but want to improve your basic skills? Then join Zinta Harris for a 1-day masterclass to do just that! Open to those already trained in CP for Wills and Estates from ALL STATES to be held at a QLD beach location on 4 June 2020!
Early Bird $459
Full Price $559
SKILLS
Expansion
This 1-day intensive training – run by wills and estates accredited specialist, Zinta Harris – is for coaches, counsellors and financial neutrals who are already experienced Collaborative Professionals in Family Law – who want to learn how to translate their skill set for the wills and estates contexts.
Early Bird $459
Full Price $559