You are cordially invited to a VADR CPD Zoom event featuring Anne Marie Cade, who will speak on ‘A Smarter Path for High-Conflict Families’. Attendees will gain practical insights, greater clarity and increased confidence in identifying when Parental Coordination may assist their clients and will learn how to support engagement with the process effectively.
This interactive webinar will explore how Parenting Coordination is reshaping the way high-conflict families navigate post-separation disputes. More than a traditional mediation model, Parenting Coordination offers a practical, child-centred process that helps families move beyond repeated conflict and towards more workable, sustainable co-parenting arrangements.
Designed for lawyers, mediators and other family law professionals, the session will provide a clear understanding of why it is becoming an increasingly valuable dispute resolution pathway.
Anne Marie will examine how Parenting Coordination differs from mediation and other post-separation interventions, the important role lawyers play in preparing and educating clients for the process, and how coaching can support meaningful behavioural change. The webinar will also explore trauma-responsive approaches that help protect children, reduce escalation and support healthier co-parenting relationships.
Anne-Marie Cade is an award-winning lawyer and mediator, a Family Dispute
Resolution Practitioner, Certified Divorce Coach and Parenting Coordinator, as well
as a speaker, trainer and lecturer in law, and has a Masters in Family Dispute
Resolution and Negotiation. She is the founder of the Parenting Coordination Institute and provides training, education and resources to support the effective use of Parenting Coordination in family law.
She was granted a Churchill Fellowship in 2020, and travelled to seven countries researching Best Practice in Parenting Coordination. On her return, she published a report for the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust setting out her findings. She sat on the Working Committee to review the guidelines for the practice of parenting coordination in Australia, and was recently granted a Creswick Fellowship to develop an evidence-based, trauma-informed Parenting Coordination framework tailored to the Australian context.
Anne Marie is on the Board of Directors of the Australian Mediator and Dispute Resolution Accreditation Standards (AMDRAS) Board and on the management committee of Peninsula Community Legal Centre.
This presentation carries one CPD point. It is free for VADR members (non-members $25). To register, please email admin@vadr.asn.au.
