New Ways for Families® Counselor Training for the Counseling Method

FOR: counselors, therapists, attorneys, and other professionals

FOCUS: learning a structured, skills-focused method for using the New Ways for Families Counseling method with divorcing or separating parents

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IMPORTANT NOTE: This training is for licensed counselors or therapists. 

 

New Ways for Families® Counselor Training

NEW WAYS FOR FAMILIES IS A METHOD OF TEACHING AND REINFORCING FOUR SIMPLE CONFLICT RESOLUTION SKILLS FOR PARENTS AND CHILDREN IN DIVORCE, SEPARATION, AND CO-PARENTING

Instructor: Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.

Space is limited. Pick your date and save your spot. A limited number of scholarships are available, and we offer group rates. Ask us here.


Would you like to help parents learn the necessary skills to manage a high conflict co-parenting situation?

New Ways for Families® is a program for high-conflict family law cases that you can utilize in your court, practice, or agency.

It is designed to save courts time, to save parents money, and to protect children as their families re-organize in new ways. It is a positive option for family law professionals who are ready for helping families in a new way that gives parents a chance to change before big decisions are made.

Developed by Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq., New Ways for Families® is a structured parenting skills method that focuses on teaching parents 4 Big Skills™ to:

  • help them make BIG decisions

  • reduce conflict

  • contain conflict

  • avoid alienation

  • reduce alienation

  • reduce refusal and resistance

  • reduce violence

  • reduce harm to the children

Goals and Benefits

  • IMMUNIZE families against becoming high conflict families

  • STRENGTHEN both parents’ abilities to make parenting decisions

  • HELP parents rely less on experts and the courts to make decisions for them

  • ASSIST professionals and the courts assess parents’ potential to learn new, positive ways of problem-solving

  • HELP professionals and the courts avoid creating an “all-bad parent” and an “all-good parent”

  • HELP parents teach their children skills for resilience in this time of huge and rapid change

  • GIVE parents a chance to change in court cases of abuse or alienation before making long-term court orders

  • DOES NOT require changes in laws or court rules

  • DOES NOT require extensive training for judges.

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Training includes:

  • PowerPoint presentations/lecture

  • Video clips

  • Role-play practice exercises

  • Opportunity for questions and discussion of difficult situations throughout the training

  • Monthly Q & A session with Bill Eddy (via Zoom) after the training

  • Licensure to provide New Ways for Families (first year license included in the training fee; $25 each year thereafter for an individual, $100 for an agency)

  • Certificate of completion

  • Membership in and immediate access to New Ways for Families Network (a forum for New Ways providers)

  • Discounts on other HCI training

  • Unlimited BONUS content and access to Decision Skills Class and Pre-Mediation Coaching On-Demand (Certificates of Completion provided)

 

Intended Audience

Primary: counselors, therapists,

Other family law professionals such as attorneys, parenting coordinators, and others are welcome to register and attend.


Length

12 training hours + breaks, which includes:

  • 4 hours Video On Demand

  • 8 hours (4 hours/day over 2 days) of “live” training via Zoom


Dates & Times

 

2024:

APRIL: Tues 9th and Thurs 11th, April, 2024. 3pm - 7pm (Pacific Time) 

NOVEMBER: Tues 12th and Thurs 14th, Oct, 2024. 3pm - 7pm (Pacific Time)For Australia the time and date will be - Wed 13th and Fri 15th April at 9am - 1pm - AEDT.
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PLEASE NOTE: Dates and times are subject to change / postponement or cancellation at any time.

 

About Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.

Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. is the co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of the High Conflict Institute in San Diego, California. He pioneered the High Conflict Personality Theory (HCP) and has become an expert on managing disputes involving people with high conflict personalities. He was the Senior Family Mediator at the National Conflict Resolution Center for 15 years, a Certified Family Law Specialist lawyer representing clients in family court for 15 years, and a licensed clinical social worker therapist with over 12 years of experience.

Bill serves on the faculty of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine University School of Law in California and is a Conjoint Associate Professor with the University of Newcastle Law School in Australia. He has been a speaker and trainer in over 35 U.S. states and 13 countries.

He is the author or co-author of over 20 books, manuals, and workbooks. He is co-host of the podcast It's All Your Fault that he co-hosts with Megan Hunter, MBA, and has a popular blog on the Psychology Today website with over 6 million views.

 

After You Register

You will have instant and unlimited access to view the following:

Part 1 On-Demand - Understanding and Managing High Conflict People (recommended viewing prior to livestream part 2 and 3.)

PLUS in your own time view BONUS material:

  • New Ways for Families® Pre-Mediation Coaching
  • New Ways for Families® Decision Skills Class

We will provide you with the following for the training approximately 1 week prior:

  • Materials (PowerPoint PDF; articles, exercises)
  • Zoom link for Part 2 and Part 3 Livestream training

Books required for the training. We do not provide hard copies of the following:

  • New Ways for Families Parent Workbook 
  • New Ways for Families Professional Guidebook
  • **Don't forget to purchase your hard copies of the New Ways for Families® Professional Guidebook and Parent Workbook. (Author Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.) - Books are referenced during the livestream training. Purchase from our BOOKSTORE or Amazon

A Certificate of Completion is emailed upon completion of the entire training (Part 1, 2 and 3.)


 
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Our Satisfaction Guarantee - Go through everything. Watch the videos and attend the live streams. If at that point you aren't 100% satisfied with our training - please email us for full refund.
 
**Don't forget to purchase your hard copies of New Ways for Families® Professional Guidebook and Parent Workbook. (Author Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.) - Books are referenced during the livestream training. Purchase from our BOOKSTORE or Amazon
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