Children In Between:
An award winning online co-parenting program
October 11th 1:30 pm Central Time
When dealing with ambivalence about divorcing, a traditional response from family lawyers is to bring up the option of marriage counseling. But often the couple have already tried marriage counseling and one of them is not sure they want to even try to fix the problems in the marriage.
Sound familiar?
Then we would like to invite you to join us for an exclusive one-hour discussion of how lawyers are better able to quickly assess for divorce ambivalence and refer those people to a resource designed specifically for their situation.
This workshop will enhance your understanding of divorce ambivalence, including research data about how it shows up in family law practice. We’ll also give you an understanding of Discernment Counseling, a research-based, short-term service delivered by couples therapists and designed specifically for “mixed-agenda” couples (one leaning out, one leaning in). Over a thousand therapists have been trained to do discernment counseling.
Lawyers who routinely refer to discernment counselors report that when couples return to work on their divorce, they are more emotionally ready and more cooperative with the process. And those who decide to repair their marriage are grateful that they saw a lawyer who offered the option of discerning before making a life changing decision.
Again, we’d love to support you as one of Don Gordon’s Children In Between trusted lawyers.
As you well know, divorce ambivalence can create complications for the divorce process and uncertainty about what kind of help the clients need. We hope this webinar is step one in connecting lawyers like you, interested in supporting couples in this time of crisis, with therapists who are eager to build relationships where they can make confident referrals to couples who are looking of a soft landing in their divorce.
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October 11th
at 1:30pm Central
Bill Doherty, Phd.
event host
Co-founder and internationally recognized marriage expert Bill Doherty, Ph.D. has been working with therapists, legislators, lawyers, mediators, and clergy for years to better serve couples struggling with divorce decisions. As a researcher, he has documented high levels of divorce ambivalence among couples even after starting the divorce process. As a therapist, he has developed Discernment Counseling, a new way to work with divorce ambivalence presenting in the form “mixed agenda” couples where one partner is leaning out of the marriage and the other wants to save it. This is a frustrating and challenging situation for therapists, lawyers, mediators—and most of all, for the couples themselves.
With his daughter Elizabeth, he developed the vision for the Doherty Relationship Institute and The Doherty Foundation for Social and Civic Well-Being. These legacy projects have a common goal is to strengthen and preserve marriages where possible and to offer a safe landing for a family friendly divorce when a marriage is ending.
In 2016 Bill co-founded the nonprofit Braver Angels, which is trying to prevent a “civic divorce” in the country by bringing together political reds and blues to find common ground. This project has spread around the U.S.
Bill lives with his wife (since 1971) Leah and has a son, Eric, who is an attorney in California, and a daughter Elizabeth Doherty Thomas who co-owns The Doherty Relationship Institute. Bill’s four grandchildren are a light of his life. He begins his day with a meditation practice and, gets in a power walk every other day (hopefully outdoors when Minnesota weather permits), and ends his day with a check in and glass of wine with Leah. In between, he says he has the same energy he had decades ago.