Hands On Training in Skill Based Coparenting
Over the past ten years, California psychologist P. Leslie Herold has developed a highly successful skill-based coparenting program for separated parents. Now he offers intensive one-and-one-half-day training workshops to individuals or agencies interested in setting up coparenting classes in their communities.
Dr. Herold’s train-the-trainers program results in an innovative resource for courts, mediators, arbitrators, and parenting coordinators. Once armed with the tools of teaching this class, facilitators can offer parents in conflict an in-depth, ten-hour coparenting class that really makes a difference.
Parents who take the coparenting seminar attend each class together and learn effective skills for working together. They are required to do homework and demonstrate communication skills. Research has shown that divorce education works best when it is skill based rather than purely informational.
Coparenting classes offer professionals a new direction and a refreshing alternative to other stressful work in the field of divorce and child custody. Program leaders in California, Utah and Colorado confirm its positive effects. Parents who complete the program experience major inprovements in their working relationships–and major improvements in the lives of their children.
Contact:
Solutions for Families
P.O. Box 3973
San Bernardino, CA 92413
Phone: 909-885-4545
www.solutions4families.com
email: springboardpubs@comcast.net
Dr. Thomas’s 2004 edition of Parents Are Forever is the official textbook of the Solutions For Families Coparenting Program in California and other states.