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Honest Conversations: A Blog About Experiencing MORE in your Life Learning & Growing from your Mistakes The Big Lie: An Honest Conversation about Grasping Opportunities and Reality Checks Forget Idealism! Embrace Realistic Optimism! How to Manage Anger Instead of Avoiding Anger: An Honest Conversation What the School Counsellor Needs to Know About the Changing Face of Divorce and Separation under the New Family Law Act MORE Steps to Living an Exceptional Life Psychology of Family Dynamics and Money MORE: A New Philosophy for Exceptional Living – OUT NOW! Protecting Yourself and Your Client: A Practical Guide for Child and Family Therapists in Dealing with Legal and Ethical Issues How Parents Can Get MORE Out The Holiday Season So You Think You Can Write… The Birth of a Book: Honest Conversation about Writing a Book Divorced at Christmas: Tips for Managing the Holidays for your Children Managing The Holidays Season After Divorce & Separation Four Tips for MORE Merriment this Holiday Season Four Things to Consider in the New Year: Comforting Reality Checks (An Honest Conversation) The Birth Of A Book (M.O.R.E.) How to Check In With Your Priorities in 4 Easy Steps How to Prepare for Announcing Your Divorce Just Write: How to Kick Start the Writing Process “Oh, crap.” The Process of Writing a Book M.O.R.E.: Steps to Exceptional Living Author Talk at Lynn Valley Library The 7 Rules of Conflict Resolution: Fighting Fair 10 Ways to Let Go of Perfectionism 4 Simple Steps to MORE Money! Author Talk at Parkgate Library How to Manage Anxiety in Children Are you curious enough to read this? An Honest Conversation About Conscious Uncoupling The Canadian Bar Association Presentation Sutherland Secondary School M.O.R.E Presentation and Scholarship Information Night Surrey School District School Counsellors: “What the School Counsellor Needs to Know About the Changing Face of Divorce and Separation” Every WOMAN Conference Whistler BC Teachers Strike…for the Kids…I Don’t Think So! Download Chapters 1-3 of M.O.R.E. for Free! 5 Tips to Transition from SCHOOL to Summer Feeling Stressed by the Family Holiday? Then You Are Doing Something Right! How to (Not) Contain the Chaos Roman Holiday, How to Accept the Good with the Bad Fabulous Florence and the Magical Moment 4 Simple Steps To Avoiding Post-Summer Anxiety How to Work Through that Fear of Flying 5 Steps to Quiet the Chatter When the Laughter Dies: Robin Williams’ Death It Is Time to Let Your Children Get Bored How to Accept the Human Moments BC Teachers’ Strike Leaves Kids In Limbo 10 Step Action Plan to Move Families Out of BC Teachers’ Strike Limbo Mistakes Are the Yellow Brick Road to Wisdom Family Law Subsection Meeting Collaborative Divorce Vancouver’s Dinner Meeting, Royal Vancouver Yacht Club When Athletic Pressure can Harm Youth 2014 BC School Counsellors Association Conference When Bad Things Happen, What Do We Tell the Kids? Jian, Brilliant Strategist or Misunderstood Victim? Why Women Fear Money Should Children be Involved in Protests or Not? West Vancouver Library Want to Truly Enjoy Your Holidays? Let Go of Your Expectations 15 Tips for Managing a Divorce Over Christmas How to Avoid the Family Holiday Meltdown Four Tips on How To Deal With Loss and Grief During the Holidays 20 Tips to Help You Succeed at Your New Year’s Resolutions 4 Important Things to Consider Before the New Year Arrives 4 Steps to Creating Achievable Goals for the New Year How To Tell Your Children You’re Getting a Divorce Why Perfectionists Should Strive to Be Exceptionalists Valentine’s Day Doesn’t Have to Be Perfect to Be Romantic BC Parenting Coordinators Annual Conference Learning to Fight Fair Can Bring You Closer Together WA AFCC Conference 10 Tips to Spring Cleaning Inside and Out 7 Steps to Renew Your Life This Easter North Shore Family Dispute Resolution Group 6 Steps To Becoming A Hero to Your Children Influence Publishing Celebrating Earth Day PC’s on the High Seas New Orleans AFCC Conference Why the Search for Happiness Is Getting in the Way of Our Happiness Talk to Me Benefit Evening 5 Steps To Keeping Your Graduate Safe Violence Screening for ADR Professionals – Red Flags, Warning Bells & Practical Tips How to Unplug This Summer 12 Tips on How to Talk with Your Children about Sex 7 Tips to Transition Your Kid From Summer to School What Ashley Madison Tells Us About Affairs and Relationships How to Bully-Proof Your Child for School 5 Tips to Improve Your Emotional Fitness How To Talk to your Children About Acts of Terrorism It’s Time To Abandon New Year’s Resolutions Intermediate Mediation Course Family Dynamics and the Cost of Conflict on Children (Alyson Jones) Getting MORE Out of Your Life (Alyson Jones) The Family Forward Reunification Program (Full Day Training) The Intersection of Family Law & Psychology: Assessments and Interventions (Alyson Jones, Presenter and Co-Chair) Family Violence Screening (Alyson Jones) Utilizing The Child Specialist In The Collaborative Law Process The Impact Of High Conflict And Family Violence On Children Overhauling The Helping Profession: A Guide To Good Counselling Want To Raise A Critical Thinker? Step Aside And Let Them Thrive Advanced Parenting Coordination Training Transitioning through Divorce The Cost of Conflict and Treatment Options for High Conflict Family Law Cases Therapeutic Interventions for Attachment Disruptions Your Children Should Not Be Your Life’s Purpose Now What? Evaluating Interventions When Attachment Disruption Is Identified You Cannot Have The Big Love Without The Big Risk The Nuts and Bolts of Reunification Counselling Want Good Mental Health? Then Get Ready To Move The Mind 8 Ways To Lead A Grateful And Healthy LIfe Practical Tips for Students on Dealing with Stress and Anxiety Family Violence Screening Under the FLA (Family Law Act) Children, Divorce & Anxiety This Is How You Become A Better Friend How To Become A Better Coworker Helping Our Youth (And Ourselves) Deal With The Trump Trauma Dealing with Difficult clients Protecting Children From Conflict The Cost of Conflict on Children and Containment Strategies Anxiety and Teens Conquering Anxiety for a Happy and Healthier You Speaking Events – Be Brave Speaking Event – Moving Families Forward 20 Tips to Help You Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions Becoming A Better Parent Speaking Event – Intermediate Mediation Course Speaking Event – Building Effective Co-Parenting Tools 3 Habits To Break And 3 Habits To Make This Year Speaking Event – Anxiety: What is it, Practical Skills to Manage and Build Resilience Speaking Event – The AFCC Annual Conference The 4 Steps To Exceptional Living Speaking Event – Eating Disorders: Recognition and Most Effective Interventions for Teens and Adult Clients The More Stuff We Have, The Less Joy We Feel 3 Difficult And Important Conversations To Have With Your Children Speaking Event: Advanced Issues in Parent Coordination Keeping The Divorce Talk Honest Can Help Your Kids Heal Faster How Fear Can Bring Opportunity Want A Real Life? Then Let Go Of The Fairytale Speaking Event: Every Woman Conference CTV Appearance: The importance of me time How to Talk to Your Kids About Bullying (on CTV Morning Live) Best Ways Forward – Symposium for Children’s Participation in Justice Process The Pros and Cons of Children’s Participation in Justice Processes September CPD for BC Association of Social Workers West Coast Business Network Group Heart to Heart Social Annual Conference for CPW – Collaborative Professionals of Washington Intermediate Mediation Course AFCC Annual Conference National Judicial Institute (NJI) Education Seminar Upcoming Workshop: Breathing Yourself into Being How High Conflict Divorces and Parental Alienation Impact Police Investigations June 12th, 2018 – ADRBC Symposium Join Us in Vancouver for a 5 Day Workshop with CLE BC – Parenting Coordinator Training Family Justice Counsellors Worksop & Training Upcoming Presentation in Montreal, Quebec The International Association of Counselling Conference in Rome, Italy with Alyson Jones  The West Vancouver Chamber of Commerce – 2018 Excellence Awards Honouring Grief Back to School Oct 2018 IACP Forum Nov 2018 AFCC 13th Symposium on Child Custody in Denver Nov 2018 Understanding Parent Child Relationships Vancouver Oct 16 Alder University Nov 2018 Conflict Resolution Conference How Our Children Grow us Up NOV 2018 Divorce Salon Counselling Services for Supported Individuals More Joy and Less Stress this Holiday Season 10 Quick Tips for Dealing with Awkward Family Moments During the Holidays JAN 2019 CLEBC Intermediate Mediation Course JAN 2019 Trial Lawyers Association of BC Medical Legal Conference in Costa Rica FEB 2019 Collaborative Divorce Vancouver Dinner Meeting Presentation When Children Feel Forced to Choose APR 2019 CLEBL Course – A Deeper Dive:  The Intersection Between Family Law and Psychology 2019 MAY 2019 OCLF/OAFM 2019 Conference: Resolution Evolution – the Path to Peace Understanding the Family Forward Program MAY 2019 AFCC ANNUAL CONFERENCE – THE FUTURE OF FAMILY JUSTICE: INTERNATIONAL INNOVATIONS MAY 2019 THE COST OF CONFLICT AND PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM DIVORCE FALL OUT JUNE 2019 THE IMPACT OF PARENTAL SEPARATION Honest Conversations about Money and Relationships How Our Children Grow Us Up Keeping the Divorce Talk Honest Can Help Children Heal Faster NOVEMBER 2019 THE COST OF CONFLICT “Stresstember” 5 Tips to Manage Your Children’s Stress this September How to Talk to Your Kids About the Coronavirus COVID-19 Relationship Self-Isolation Survival Guide COVID-19 – Keeping Up Workplace Morale during Turbulent Times Easter and Renewal in the time of COVID-19 Losing Loved Ones During Covid-19 Supported Individuals and Diversity During the Times of Covid-19 15 Tips To Adjust as the Covid-19 Reality Deepens Dealing with Anxiety as we Emerge out of the Covid-19 Cocoon Talking to Children about Racism Return to School in the Time of Covid-19 Back to School: A Fresh Start The Second Wave (of Anxiety) The COVID Cycle – Dealing with COVID Fatigue, Reactivity and Conflict I’m Dealing with a Covid Christmas “Not in My Neigbourhood!” Helping Ourselves and Our Children in the Aftermath of the Lynn Valley Stabbings Your Weather Headache is Real (and 6 Other Headaches Women Experience Most) from Slice.ca Money, Stress and Relationships Navigating Family Dynamics Over the Holidays Dealing with the Lupa Lupa Festival Tragedy Gratitude Dealing with the Tumbler Ridge Tragedy