BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-/-/EN BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Alienation, Hostility and High Conflict - looking past the labels to find real, workable solutions UID:6 DESCRIPTION:Alienation\, Hostility and High Conflict - looking past the labels to find real\, workable solutions\n\nTrainer:  Matthew Richardson\, Barrister\, Coram Chambers\n\nThis course will be held on-line on Thursday 10 June 2021 2 pm - 5.00 pm\n\nThis course aims to consider 'what works' in relation to achieving agreements and finding solutions for parents in conflict over the care of their child/ren.  A frequent aim of a family law professional is to help or persuade someone to think in a different way\, to enable them to re-frame the problem\, see it from another perspective and from someone else's point of view.\n\nMatthew Richardson is using applied psychology in his work with parents in conflict.   In his experience\, once someone takes up the 'baton of litigation' the position necessarily becomes adversarial.  The professional person involved sometimes has to be brave enough to confront the parent they are dealing with.\n\nEffective resolution requires lawyers on both sides to strive towards agreement as well as the parents.  This can be difficult where those on each side become entrenched and instinctively or automatically try to identify counter-arguments.  The lines between cases where there is genuine ‘intractable hostility’ or ‘alienation’ and cases of relatively usual parental discord become blurred when the conflict is flamed by the professionals.  There is a real risk that the litigation conflict can be conflated with the family dynamics such that the family’s situation gets worse than it would have been otherwise.\n\nMatthew looks at what professionals can do to make sure they help\, rather than hinder\, the process\, and does so within the context of ‘high conflict’ cases\, informed by the readily available lessons of applied psychology.  These cases can be some of the most difficult to deal with\, but at the same time are among the cases where family law professionals can have the biggest influence on the outcome – both positive and negative.\n\nKey content includes case strategy\, the use of language (for example should we really ever be using the language of ‘alienation’?)\, common mistakes of logic and reasoning (both in parents and professionals)\, the instruction of experts and the involvement of other dispute resolution processes.\n\nFor application form\, further details and to check availability please contact Nagalro: 01372 818504 or email nagalro@nagalro.com\n\n DTSTAMP:20200326T163600Z DTSTART:20210609T230000Z DTEND:20210609T230000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR