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"Since finishing the Coparenting training I have found myself
interacting with divorced parents in an entirely new way. I now teach
Coparenting monthly and find the experience completely rewarding.
It's like giving every family a whole new beginning."
Shirley
Thomas, Ph.D.,
Author of Parents Are Forever
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Intensive
Workshop
We
provide an intensive, one and one-half day training workshop for
individuals or agencies interested in starting Coparenting classes
in their own communities. Typically, the first half of the workshop
begins early in the afternoon on Friday and concludes after a group
dinner. This format duplicates the actual experience of parents
enrolled in our three-part Coparenting program. Another parallel
is the requirement for trainees to complete some homework before
returning the next day for the remainder of the workshop.
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Scripts
and Mock Participation
In
preparation for the training, participants receive individualized
'scripts', which serve as a basis for simulations of divorced parents
taking part in a Coparenting class. The step-by-step training progresses
in exactly the same sequence as an actual Coparenting class. Over
one and one-half days, trainees are mock participants in a highly
structured ten-hour intervention. Ample time is allowed for trainees
to step out of their assigned roles and ask questions. The two trainers,
in turn, frequently interrupt the 'group process' to comment on
strategies for dealing with difficult class members. The focus,
then, is on providing trainees with an experience representative
of both participants and instructors working their way through our
Coparenting program.
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Follow-up
Consultation Provided
We
expect trainees to have some trepidation about plunging into teaching
Coparenting on their own - once removed from the support and guidance
so liberally available during the workshop. In keeping with the
emphasis placed on encouragement in everything we do, we make ourselves
available on pretty much an unlimited basis to provide follow-up
consultation. This service is included in the fee for training.
Where
can you train?
Training
takes place either on-site in our Southern California office
or, by arrangement, in a local venue. The ideal number of
trainees is between eight and ten - another parallel to the
actual Coparenting class. The fee for our 'in-house' training
is $500 per individual, inclusive of all materials (including
the entire Coparenting curriculum, text, and follow-up consultation).
We quote costs for off-site training based on our travel time
and expenses, number of participants, and considerations such
as whether an organization is for-profit or non-profit.
Click here to learn more!
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Who
can become an instructor?
Who
is suitable to undergo our training, and become a Coparenting instructor?
The answer is simple! Anyone with good 'people skills' and, in addition,
some degree of passion about being a 'change agent' for families
struggling with the challenges of divorce.
Our
trainees in the past have included mental health professionals,
attorneys, social workers, custody evaluators, mediators, and individuals
in various phases of higher education.
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We
would very much welcome people from other walks of life - such
as clergy, schoolteachers, and retired, but nonetheless wise 'elders'.
Credentials are far less relevant to success as a Coparenting
instructor than a strong inner desire to make a profound contribution
to the lives of people in a time of transition. On this note,
we will paraphrase what virtually every Coparenting instructor
(ourselves included) has said:
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"Rarely
if ever in one's adult worklife is there to be found a level of
gratification to match that which befalls instructors, as a matter
of routine, in teaching Coparenting.
Our
community has desperately needed this type of intervention, and
has responded very well to it. Our 'graduates' have contacted us
from a year ago and more, to let us know they are still using the
skills they learned, by practicing them together, in the course.
This kind of course is needed across the country."
Valerie Hale, Director,
Sugarhouse Family Counseling and Education
Center, Salt Lake City
Dr. Herold is a master at training professionals to facilitate intensive coparenting classes. His warm, entertaining style and willingness to consult after trainings is invaluable to experts who work with him. I wholeheartedly recommend that anyone venturing into the world of teaching extended coparenting take advantage of Les Herold's training expertise."
Shirley Thomas
Longmont, Colorado
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