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Parenting Coordination: Bridging the gap between conflict and cooperation
- 2 hrs
- 2 CPD Points
- 12/03/2026 - 12/03/2026
- Interactive
- Start from $198.00
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Parenting Coordination: Bridging the gap between conflict and cooperation
Date & time: 12 March 2026, 12.00pm to 2.15pm AEDT
Parenting Coordination (PC) is transforming the way high-conflict families navigate post-separation disputes - offering a practical, child-centred pathway that goes far beyond traditional mediation.
Whether you’re a lawyer, mediator, or family law professional, this session will provide you with the strategies, clarity, and confidence to guide clients out of conflict and into more cooperative co-parenting.
By attending this program, you will understand:
- How PC operates as a powerful dispute resolution process beyond standard mediation
- The key distinctions between PC and other resolution pathways
- How lawyers can educate clients and encourage meaningful engagement with a Parent Coordinator
- The vital role of coaching within the PC process
- Trauma-responsive approaches that protect children and support healthier co-parenting relationships
Facilitated by: Anne-Marie Cade, Divorce Coach & Family Mediator, Divorce Right and Adjunct Lecturer, College of Law
At the end of this live webinar, you will earn 2 CPD points.
Course Outline
Parenting Coordination in Practice – an Effective, Trauma-Responsive Intervention for Post-Divorce Conflict.
High-conflict co-parenting after separation can drain families emotionally, financially, and legally - often with devastating impacts on children. Parenting Coordination (PC) offers a practical, child-focused solution.
In this two-hour live webinar, award-winning mediator and Parenting Coordination practitioner Anne-Marie Cade will:
- Explain how PC works as an effective dispute resolution process beyond traditional mediation
- The difference between PC and other dispute resolution processes
- Share how lawyers can educate clients and encourage engagement with a parent coordinator
- The value in coaching in the PC process
- Explore a trauma-responsive approach that helps shield children and support healthier co-parenting dynamics
This live webinar is ideal for practitioners nationwide, recently admitted lawyers, practitioners returning to family law, practitioners transitioning into family law practice, and experienced family law practitioners.
This webinar is produced in NSW and features a VIC-based practitioner. This webinar is available to practitioners from all jurisdictions.
The time listed for this course is Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT). Please take note of any time differences if you are registering from QLD, WA, SA, NT or from outside Australia.
The course complies with the mandatory requirements of professional skills (1 point) and substantive law (1 point).
If you intend to claim CPD units for this educational activity, please note that CPD activities are not accredited by the Law Society of NSW or any other equivalent local authority, with the exception of Western Australia. If you hold a practising certificate in a state or territory other than Western Australia and this educational activity extends your knowledge and skills in areas that are relevant to your practice needs or professional development, then you should claim one (1) "unit” for each hour of attendance, refreshment breaks not included. The annual requirement is ten (10) CPD units each year from 1 April to 31 March. Some practitioners, such as accredited specialists, are required to complete more than ten (10) units each CPD year.
Practitioners holding WA practising certificates are eligible to earn CPD points for this course. For instructions to earn CPD points, please click here.
Anne-Marie Cade
Divorce Coach & Family Mediator, Divorce Right
Anne-Marie Cade is a family lawyer who is also an experienced Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner, Nationally Accredited Mediator as well as a Parenting Coordinator and Certified Divorce Coach.
Anne-Marie is the founder and CEO of DivorceRight, a boutique mediation and divorce coaching practice. She is passionate about the work she does as an Alternative Dispute Resolution professional to help her clients reach a peaceful resolution. She provides mediation services as well as coaching and training on topics such as constructive conflict resolution, effective communication, divorce coaching, negotiation, resilience, wellbeing, and parenting coordination. In her coaching and training she provides valuable insights and strategic advice on building conflict intelligence, constructive conflict resolution, conflict management and navigating difficult conversations.
She was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to conduct research internationally in “Best Practice in Parenting Co-ordination” with a view to informing the implementation of the practice in Australia. She has been recognised for her innovative work, receiving the LexisNexis and Janders Dean Legal Innovation Award in 2016. She was also recognised as winner of the Thought Leader of the Year at the Women in Law Awards in 2017. In 2023 she won Australian Mediator of the Year at the Australasian Law Awards. More recently in 2024 she won the following awards at the Australian ADR Awards - Conflict Coach of the Year, ADR Project of the Year and ADR Innovation of the Year. In 2024 she also received the Resolution Institute Certificate Award for Service to dispute resolution
Anne-Marie has a Masters in Family Dispute Resolution and Negotiation. She is also an Adjunct Lecturer at the College of Law in Victoria for their Practical Legal Training course.
Please be aware that this webinar organised by the College of Law may be recorded for use on our websites, marketing materials and publications. By attending and participating in a College of Law Continuing Professional Development course, you consent to the College of Law photographing or recording and using your image and likeness and/or voice.
Excellent workshop, appreciated the wealth of knowledge and experience.
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Highly relevant material and a great training overall.
Past Attendee
Presenter was exceptional, well informed and engaging. The course was well presented. Use of case studies and scenarios helped explain the content.
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Content and case law were relevant and up to date, great format and well-paced delivery.
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