I will add that where I practice, in Ontario, full team means 2 clients, 2
lawyers, 1 neutral family professional and 1 neutral financial professional.
Not everyone uses full team; not every community has access to collaboratively
trained financial and family professionals. However within full team, the
family professional often meets separately with the clients (ie without the
other professionals) to work on their parenting plan. In this situation the
family professional is working as a mediator. The family professional sits in
the collaborative meetings as a neutral facilitator. This includes facilitating
the progress of the meeting, monitoring the emotional temperature in the room
and acting accordingly (“break time” etc), and sometimes using mediation skills
to manage conflict or impasse.
Another interpretation of mediation and collaborative working together.
Joelle
On Oct 22, 2019, at 1:59 PM, 'Ross Evans' rme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [CollabLaw]
<CollabLaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Interesting Question and in addition to both Bonnie's Response and Adam's let
me add:
There are times that a Mediator can be brought in to assist a Collaborative
Case getting through Impasses. I have done that in a fairly regular basis
sometimes meeting with the professionals and sometimes meeting with the whole
team.
As they say, Sometimes it takes a Village and there is nothing wrong with a
Mediator being brought in when a case gets "stuck". Just one of the many tools
in the Collaborative toolbox!
Come to Forum this weekend and find me.
Regards,
Ross
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