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How to Be Smart About Mediation
Understanding what mediation is as a process, and finding the right mediator, are critical elements to developing smart and long lasting parenting and financial agreements that are predicated on informed, thoughtful decision making. A good mediator will discuss what your goals are for the process, what is important to each of you and will help you to craft a plan that addresses those goals and intentions. This is important to understand, as all mediators are not created equal!
Our guest, Cara Raich, (http://www.srmediators.com/mediators/cara-raich-esq/) (http://mediatetrix.wordpress.com/) explores the specifics of mediation in this episode of The Smart Divorce, with Deborah Moskovitch and Steve Peck. Cara is a mediator and attorney who specializes in helping people find non-adversarial resolutions to conflict. She mediates a wide range of cases including divorce, family conflicts, and organizational and civil disputes.
Cara is dedicated to helping her clients avoid the challenges and acrimony that frequently accompany adversarial proceedings. She does this by enabling her clients to come to realistic and informed agreements that work for them and their families. Cara believes that separation and divorce are family matters with a legal element, not a lawsuit that happens to be about a family.
To understand how these goals are accomplished in a fair and reasonable manner – and gain perspectives on alternative ways to view mediation and settlement we discuss:
- What does neutrality really mean?
- What are the process choices that people have when contemplating divorce?
- How do we as a society view divorce?
- What is a successful divorce?
- What is the role the law will play in your divorce? Is the law relevant, determinative or something in between?
This interview will surely help you understand the many aspects of mediation.
To listen, click on the link http://www.divorcesourceradio.com/be-smart-about-mediation/
It’s All About The Kids, “Stupid” – Parenting During Divorce
One of the most important concerns parents have post divorce is how their time is to be shared between their children. Is there such a thing about the right parenting plan or how parenting time is shared? In this episode of The Smart Divorce with Deborah Moskovitch, our guest Dr. Phil Stahl has some very insightful answers and thoughts on parenting during divorce.
Dr. Stahl is one of the North America’s foremost parenting experts; a practitioner, author, and teacher, specializing in high conflict families of divorce. He has served on numerous committees and task forces designed to improve the quality of work in his field. He teaches judges, attorneys, psychologists and other mental health professionals about issues affecting families and children. His expertise is accepted in courts across the country.
If you are a parent going through a divorce, you will want to learn more about custody evaluations and some of the issues affecting families and children. This show is insightful for grandparents and step-parents…..or anyone who wants a better understanding of the parenting plan and putting the children’s best interests first.
Topics include:
- Communication blunders, and apologizing to our children for our mistakes
- Wise advice from Dr. Stahl’s book – Parenting After Divorce
- What makes a good parenting plan
- Parenting plan ideas
- Parenting through conflict
- How to share your child – your child is not a percentage
For more on Dr. Stahl, visit: http://www.parentingafterdivorce.com/index.html
To hear this insightful interview chock full of great advice tune in at http://www.divorcesourceradio.com/its-all-about-the-kids-stupid-parenting-during-divorce/
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What Are the Benefits of a Divorce Consultant?
I will be a guest speaker at Riverdale Mediation, 40 hour mediation program on Monday, March 7. This is what I will be speaking about:
Day three begins with a class discussion led by renowned divorce consultant Deborah Moskovitch. Is there a difference between a coach and consultant? What are their respective roles? What kinds of clients might benefit from these type of professionals?
For more information or to register for this program check out the brochure.
2012 Basic Med Agenda copy and their link http://www.riverdalemediation.com/
How to Become the Most Awesome Dad
Becoming the Most Awesome Single Dad
Becoming the most awesome single dad is our new episode of The Smart Divorce with Deborah Moskovitch. Dads often get under played in society and the media…..Disney dads, born again fathers, dads that disappear from their children’s lives…..and then there’s our guest Joel Schwartzberg.
Joel is an award-winning humorist, personal essayist and screenwriter whose work has appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, New Jersey Monthly, The New York Post, The New York Daily News, The Star Ledger, Babble.com, and in the flimsy pages of regional parenting magazines around the country. He’s the author of The 40-Year-Old Version: Humoirs of a Divorced Dad, a unique and award-winning collection of funny and personal essays that examine how divorce reinvents relationships with kids and one’s own sense of Dadhood.
Joel offers great tips and insights on being a part-time Dad in a full-time life — a meaningful interview for any parent, particularly the millions who’ve gone through divorce with their senses of humor intact.
Topics include:
- Putting a spin a heart wrenching situation and finding the humor in life
- “Lazy Dadurday” offer a glimpse into those special moments and new routines with dad after a split
- Top Ten Things Divorced Dads Need to Realize
- What Remarried Dads Owe Their Stepmom Wives
- And so much more….
More about Joel’s book, The 40 Year-Old Version can be found at: BookForDad.com
To hear this most awesome interview, click on the link http://www.divorcesourceradio.com/becoming-the-most-awesome-single-dad/
Can Divorce Cause Sickness & Disease?
Stress not only affects our mental well-being, but our physical health as well. Our guest, Dr. Vivien Browna family physician and Vice President for MEDISYS Health Group, Inc., in charge of Medical Affairs (http://www.medisys.ca/) explores the impact of stress on the body and how you can actually prevent disease and illness – because “nothing makes you feel more fragile than getting sick.”
Dr. Brown shares with us the importance of preventative medicine and what you can do at a time when your body is most vulnerable. An award winner for teaching on many levels, Dr. Brown’s major interests are in the area of health promotion and prevention for women, and continuing medical education. She is particularly focused in the area of Adult Immunization and Vaccine Preventable Illness.
Topics include:
- The impact of stress on the immune system on our lives
- Focusing on a healthy lifestyle and understanding modifiable risks
- Health promotion and health prevention
- The importance of a fitness program
- Important immunizations
- Coping with depression
To hear this podcast, click on the link: http://www.divorcesourceradio.com/can-divorce-cause-sickness-disease/
Downgrading Divorce From Crisis To Process In The Workplace
As published in The Huffington Post
Divorce or the breakdown of a relationship is an extremely emotional process. People are often confused, filled with fear and unsure of how to navigate the process. Their world is turned upside down, triggering unsettling and distressful emotions. The effects of the emotional distress in the workplace can be devastating.
Close to 50 percent of marriages in North America end in divorce. The divorce rate rises to a staggering 60 percent and higher for subsequent divorces by these same individuals. Clearly, we need to employ strategies that will get everyone, including those caught in the middle — often the children — off the “divorce-go-round” and on to a better life. We need to encourage healthy new beginnings, even when divorce looks like an end.
On a classic rating scale of stressful life events, divorce consistently ranks number two — second only to the death of a spouse or child. People often feel overburdened and lack confidence, so it’s not surprising many buckle under the pressure.
Divorce undoubtedly reduces a worker’s productivity. According to John Curtis of Integrated Organizational Development in Waynesville, N.C., the cost per worker going through a divorce is about $8,300, assuming an average wage of $19.50 per hour and a 50 percent to 75 percent drop in productivity. That estimate also includes days missed as the worker takes time off to deal with the legal, financial and psychological issues related to divorce.
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