Seminars and Workshops

Divorce Center presentation on January 27, 2011, in Quincy. 

Laurie Israel will be one of the presenters at a seminar sponsored by The Divorce Center on January 27.  Her topic will be financial issues in connection with divorce.

Montana Mediation Association (MtMA) invites Laurie Israel to present on Marital Mediation.    Laurie Israel will be in Helena, Montana, presenting an all-day workshop on marital mediation for mediators on April 30, 2011.  On April 29, she will present a short introductory presentation on the topic.

 

 

First 2-day workshop on Marital Mediation given in March, 2010.

After presenting one-day and shorter marital mediation workshops, Laurie Israel and John Fiske, a Cambridge mediator/lawyer realized that a two-day workshop was needed to get practitioners started in this important and helpful area of mediation.  Their training held on March 5-6, 2010,  was a great success, with much material presented, and extraordinary and capable participants.   For a look at the 2-day workshop schedule, see  Laurie’s website www.mediationtostaymarried.com  Laurie’s powerpoints aimed at new marital mediation practicitioners and potential clients (and referral sources) elicited much comment and discussion.  The particular issues of psychotherapists and counselors functioning as mediators was explored. 

Laurie and John are pioneers in the emerging area of marital mediation. Both have presented in Massachusetts and in conferences in the U.S. on the topic.

 

Financial Bootcamp for Divorce Mediators Presentation.

Laurie Israel recently gave a 3 hour workshop at the symposium of the Massachusetts Council on Family Mediation Family Mediation Institute in Wellesley, MA on November 13, 2009 entitled “Financial Bootcamp for Divorce Mediators”. Susan Miller, CPA was the go-presenter. In 2008, Laurie presented “Mediating through Alimony Minefields” at the Institute. She is a frequent writer for the MCFM Family Mediation Quarterly, most recently in the Winter, 2009 issue, with her article “Times They Are A’ Changin’, or Are They? Alimony in a Changing Landscape”.