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In a collaborative divorce, each spouse usually hires their own divorce coach to help them learn to communicate and negotiate more effectively. These coaches are an integral part of the collaborative divorce team. They teach life skills that will form the basis for your post-divorce relationship with your spouse. If you have children, the skills learned from your divorce coach can make co-parenting go more smoothly after the divorce.
Your divorce coach will provide you will skilled help in:
- Managing your emotions appropriately.
- Separating your thoughts from your feelings.
- Thinking through emotionally charged issues.
- Learning to talk about difficult problems in a businesslike manner.
- Setting short and long-term goals for yourself, your children and your co-parenting relationship.
Conflict management, creative problem-solving, negotiation and productive communication are among the valuable life skills you can learn with the help of your divorce coach. Your coach can help you identify bad habits and problem areas in your relationship with your spouse and learn to communicate more productively. Divorce coaches help you and your spouse focus more clearly on your individual goals and the positive changes that can come about as a result of your divorce.
Wanted to let our readers know about another worthwhile coach: the parenting coach, to help people learn how to co-parent post divorce. Here’s just one article http://www.divorce360.com/articles/156/parenting-after-the-break-up.aspx
www.divorce360.com
This is a very clear explanation of how a Divorce Coach works. Not all states utilize the same model of Collaborative Law. Texas and some other states use a single, neutral divorce coach/communication consultant/mental health professional. Our coach seems to take on the same functions, but works as a neutral for both parties. The process is working well in Texas, which just demonstrates the flexibility of the Collaborative approach to family law. It’s great to see a blog focused on Collaborative Law. Keep up the good work! –Dick Price, Texas Collaborative Law Blog