Discovering What Children Want to Tell Us: A Child Centred Approach

Presentation resources from the Vital Family Law webinar series

On 19 November, 2020, Lorri Yasenik, PhD, and Jon Graham, LLB, BA, joined us for a presentation that explored an approach to eliciting the voice of children in Family Mediation.

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Our Presenters

Lorri Yasenik Ph.D., RSW, RFM, RPT-S is the Co-Director of Rocky Mountain Play Therapy Institute and Mediation services in Calgary, Alberta Canada. Lorri is a Certified Supervisor of Child Psychotherapy and Play Therapy and delivers certified training programs nationally and internationally in the area of child therapy and child inclusive practice. Lorri is a past President of the Alberta Family Mediation Society and is currently President AFCC Alberta Chapter. She is a Registered Family Mediator, and Registered Parenting Coordinator-Arbitrator. Her areas of expertise are in the fields of separation and divorce, child centered mediation/parenting coordination, treatment of trauma, family violence, adjustment,  and the spectrum of children’ s mental health problems. Post Voice of the Child Research, Lorri has co-developed the program Meeting With ChildrenA Child Centred Approach for practitioners who wish to include children in the family law sector.

 

Jon Graham BCom LLB BA Grad Dip FDR is the Director of The Institute for Specialist Dispute Resolution in Sydney.  Jon is a Mediator, Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner, and Supervisor of FDR practice throughout Australia.  Jon has an extensive training calendar in Australia, North America, Asia and the UK, presenting accreditation programs for Family Mediation, and continuing education in post separation family violence, trauma and dysregulation, alternative models of dispute resolution with families, and new approaches to the inclusion of children in post separation mediation and parenting coordination.  In 2014 Jon began a collaboration with Dr Lorri Yasenik and together they launched The International Centre for Children and Family Law.  In 2016 Jon and Lorri developed the Meeting with Children: A Child Centred Approach for family mediation.  The program has now been expanded for application by parenting coordinators, and judges.   In 2020 Jon was a co-author of The Voice of the Child and Parenting Coordination with Lorri Yasenik and Linda Fieldstone (Family Court Review July 2020).