New Ways for Families

New Ways for Families is a 12 hour course which trains parents in skills they need to develop for successful post separation parenting. Applying what you learn will help you to avoid becoming a high conflict family law case.

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Course curriculum

1. Welcome
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2. The Four Big Skills
3. Court Case Information
4. General Information about you and where you are
5. Family Situation Information
6. Co-Parenting Relationship - pre-course review
7. Download your Parents Journal
8. End of Getting Started Module
1. Module 1: Managed Emotions
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2. Coping with Stress (Managed Emotions)
3. How to calm yourself
4. Quiz 1 - Module One: How to calm yourself quiz
5. Self-Reflection: Our brains under stress
6. Our Brains Under Stress
7. Self-Reflection: Encouraging Statements
8. Encouraging Statements
9. Checking your encouraging statements
10. Encouraging Statements under Stress
11. Quiz 2 - Module One: Encouraging Statements
12. Self-Reflection: Mirror Neurones
13. Mirror Neurones
14. Calm your own emotions
15. Self-Reflection: Emotions and Children
16. Emotions and Children
17. Additional Resources: Sesame Street
18. Mixed emotions and Protecting your children
19. Quiz 3 - Module One: Emotions Questions
20. Self-Reflection: Top Three Parenting Skills
21. Top Three Parenting Skills
22. Goal setting for managed emotions
23. Quiz 4 - Module One Review Quiz
24. End of Module 1
1. Module 2: Solving co-parenting problems with flexible thinking
2. Solving co-parenting problems with flexible thinking
3. Influencing your co-parent
4. Flexible thinking
5. Flexible Thinking Examples
6. Flexible Thinking and Family Violence
7. Life Application: Flexible Thinking
8. Self-reflection: Communicating with your co-parent.
9. Making Proposals
10. Self-Reflection: Making Proposals - Expected Response from the other parent
11. Self-reflection: Preparing to make proposals
12. Preparing to make proposals
13. Life Application: Issues for Resolution
14. Quiz 5 - Module 2: Flexible thinking
15. Self-Reflection: Gathering Information
16. Gathering Information
17. Self-Reflection: Where to gather Information
18. Proposals with a lawyer or mediator
19. Self-Reflection: What you can control
20. Self-Reflection: Ways of using flexible thinking
21. Setting a flexible thinking goal
22. Quiz 6 - Module 2: Flexible thinking review quiz
23. End of module 2
1. Introduction to Avoid Over Reacting
2. Avoid Over Reacting
3. Self-Reflection: Over Reactions
4. Self-Reflection: Moderate and Extreme Behaviours
5. Moderate Behaviours
6. Self-Reflection: What did you learn about moderate and extreme behaviours?
7. Quiz 7 - Module 3: Moderate or Extreme Behaviours Quiz
8. Behaviour Questions Review
9. Life Application: Moderate or Extreme Behaviours
10. Writing Emails Videos
11. Self-Reflection: responding to hostile emails
12. BIFF Response
13. Practice writing emails with BIFF
14. Self-Reflection: Your BIFF Response Email
15. Responding to several people
16. Self-Reflection: Review of your recent emails
17. Coaching for BIFF Response
18. Life Application: Using BIFF
19. Using BIFF Responses to look good
20. Self-Reflection: Incorporating Moderate Behaviours into your life
21. Quiz 8 - Module 3: Review Quiz
22. Review
23. Life Application: Moderate Behaviour Goal
1. Module Four - Self-Reflection: Checking yourself
2. Checking yourself
3. Self-Reflection: Behaviour in front of your children
4. Types of co-parents
5. "I'm Very Superior" Co-Parent Type
6. Quiz 9 - Module 4: "I'm very superiour" personalities Quiz
7. Additional Resources
8. "Love You, Hate You" Co-Parent Type
9. "Con Artist and Really Scary" Co-Parent Type
10. "Always Suspicious" Co-Parent Type
11. "Always Dramatic" Co-Parent Type
12. Self-Reflection: Checking yourself before mediation
13. Checking yourself before Mediation
14. Self-Reflection: Preparing for upsetting comments
15. Self-Reflection: Check in
16. Negotiating Principles
17. Life Application: Making Proposals
18. Quiz 10 - Module 4: Prepare for Upsetting Statements during mediation
19. Quiz 11 - Module 4: Quiz Questions
1. If your co-parent has extreme behaviour problems
2. Substance Abuse
3. Domestic Violence
4. Child Abuse
5. Anger Management
6. Effects of Stress on your Child's Brain
7. Child Alienation
8. Family Counselling for Alienation
9. False Allegations of Abuse
10. Parental Absence
11. Staying out of court
12. What to tell the children
13. Quiz 12 - Module 5: Quiz Questions
1. Module Six - Raising Healthy Children with your co-parent
2. Four emotions that can interfere
3. Three types of co-parent cooperation
4. Healthcare decisions
5. Quiz 13 - Module 6: Healthcare Question
6. Education Decisions
7. Extra Curricular Activities
8. Quiz 14 - Module 6: Excursions Question
9. Changes to Schedule
10. Daycare providers
11. Changeovers
12. Co-parenting with a Difficult but safe co-parent
13. Co-parenting with a Difficult and unsafe co-parent
14. If you have anger management issues
15. Quiz 15 - Module 6: Raising Healthy Children Quiz
1. Module 7 - Child Developmental Goals
2. Support your co-parent's relationship
3. Mention Positive Qualities
4. Birth to 1 year old
5. 1 to 3 year olds
6. 3 to 5 year olds
7. 5 to 12 year olds
8. 12 - 18 year olds
9. Co-parenting Adult Children
10. Quiz 16 - Module 7: Child Developmental Goals Quiz
1. Self-Reflection - How can you help improve your child's development?
2. Module 8 - Parenting Schedules
3. A relationship with both of you
4. Parent Child Attachment
5. Learning to manage their emotions
6. Learning about other people's emotions
7. Stability and significant and substantial time
8. General Principals by age
9. Birth to 4 Years
10. 5 - 12 Years
11. 13 to 18 Years
12. Young adults over 18 Years
13. Self-Reflection - Parenting Schedules
14. Holidays
15. With a High Conflict co-parent
16. First right of refusal
17. If a parent moves away
18. Developing your Parenting Plan
19. Getting realistic in mediation
20. If you talk directly
21. Restricted Changeovers
22. Quiz 17 - Module 8: Parenting Schedules Quiz
23. Self-Reflection - Parenting Plan Proposals
1. Using Professionals
2. Counsellors
3. A counsellor for you
4. Counselling with your Co-Parent
5. Counselling for your child
6. Family Counselling
7. Psychologists
8. New Ways Coaches
9. Family Dispute Resolution Practitioners
10. Mediator Facilitated Negotiation
11. Lawyers
12. Collaborative Divorce Lawyers
13. Independent Children's Lawyers (ICLs)
14. Family Consultants
15. Child Contact Supervisors
16. Who pays
17. Informing professionals about your co-parent
18. Consent Orders
19. Court Hearing
20. Quiz 18 - Module 9: Using Professionals Quiz
21. Life-Application: Using Professionals
1. Module 10 - New Partners, New Families
2. Dating
3. Preparing New Partners to stay calm
4. Co-habitation
5. Wait to remarry
6. If you commit to a new relationship
7. New Partners and Parenting Issues
8. What to call your new partner
9. Managed Emotions and Flexible Thinking
10. Your co-parents life changes
11. New Parenting Disputes
12. Changes in the Schedule
13. Making Proposals for Changes
14. Not too rejecting, not too close
15. FDR and other methods
16. FDR and Family Violence
17. New Partners in FDR
18. New Partners in Court
19. New Partners Children
20. Counselling with your New Partner
21. Counselling with your New Family
22. Setting limits
23. Quiz 19 - Module 10: New Partners, New Families Quiz
24. Life-Application: New Partners, New Families
1. Handling Financial Issues
2. Five Areas of Financial Issues
3. Exchanging Financial Information
4. Child Support
5. Spousal Maintenance
6. Property Division
7. Taxes
8. Bankruptcy
9. Hiding Money and Discovery
10. Don't destroy your records
11. Mediation and Property Settlements
12. Quiz 20 - Module 11: Handling Financial Issues
13. Life Application: Handling Financial Issues
1. Avoid Becoming a High Conflict Case
2. Unmanaged Emotions in Court
3. Frequent Filers
4. Managing and Making Decisions
5. Using the four big skills
6. Avoid Labeling
7. Checking yourself reminder
8. Anticipating Problems
9. Positive Behaviours
10. When to go back to court
11. New Issues
12. Changing Parenting Orders
13. Child Alienation Issues after Orders are made
14. When should you stop fighting in court?
15. Limitations of Court
16. Looking Ahead
17. Quiz 21 - Module 12: How to avoid becoming a High Conflict Case
18. Reflections on your learnings
19. Co-Parenting Relationship - end of course review

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New Ways for Families

Course curriculum

Welcome and Getting Started

Module 1: Coping with Stress (Managed Emotions)

Module 2: Flexible Thinking

Module 3: Avoiding Over-Reacting (Moderate Behaviours)

Module 4: Checking Yourself

Module 5: Extreme Behaviours and the Effect on your Child's Brain

Module 6: Raising Healthy Children

Module 7: Child Development Goals

Module 8: Parenting Schedules

Module 9 - Using Professionals

Module 10: New Partners and New Families

Module 11: Handling Financial Issues as Co-Parents

Module 12 - Avoid Becoming a High Conflict Case

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