The Ontario Based:
Introduction to Divorce Coaching Program
Unlock new career opportunities with our Ontario-based training program, "How to Be a Divorce Coach." Led by experienced working professionals in the industry, our practical and focused approach equips you with essential skills to guide clients through he complexities of divorce. Whether you're looking to start a new career or enhance your expertise as a family lawyer or mediator, our program provides valuable tools to broaden your professional horizons and make meaningful difference.
Some of Our Topics Include:
Key coaching skills and principles
Identifying and supporting clients needs
Assisting with Parenting and Co-Parenting
Understanding aspects of financial coaching
Goals, approaches, and benefits of coaching
Ethics and Professionalism
This 21 hour online course teaches not only the fundamentals of divorce coaching but provides valuable learning for parenting coordinators
(PC), mediators or other professionals working with people contemplating separation, experiencing separation or post separation.
Divorce coaches work within the collaborative process, mediation and litigation. Coaches can work with one party, both parties and with self-represented and represented clients.
While coaching borrows many skills from mediation and PC work, it is very different. Divorce coaches are not neutrals, they dig deeper and provide support in different ways which is the reason we created this program. Attendees can use this training to fulfill continuing education requirements in different practice areas, start their divorce coaching journey or complete the suggested requirements of practicing as a divorce coach.
This program includes training around knowing your client, normal responses to separation and divorce, drivers of conflict, personality and mental health, trauma and grief and neurodiversity. It includes training around co-parenting including how address gatekeeping and resist/refuse dynamics. It includes additional screening training for financial abuse, coercive control and capacity. It includes training around how to frame financial discussions and help clients identify their financial goals while understanding the future impact of their decisions. It includes training around accountability, goal setting, action planning and powerful questioning.
We also talk about ethics, boundaries, communicating with other professionals, obstacles, and required training for divorce coaches. We have set Standards of Practice and require attendees to commit to them in their practice.
This training is for:
Mediators who want to learn how to use their knowledge to expand their services into coaching.
Parenting Coordinators who want to learn how to perform the education, conflict management and communication aspects of PC without a court order, arbitration award or separation agreement.
Collaborative family law professionals who want to learn how a coach or how to better support their clients through this process.
Family law lawyers who want to learn how to better support clients through non-legal issues through the use of coaching.
Real estate and financial professionals who want to learn how to better support clients experiencing separation or divorce.
| Coaching Principals, boundaries, differentiating, intake, agreements, ethical guidelines and standards of practice | 5 hours | Includes environments coaches work in, coaching 101, differences from other professions, benefits of coaching |
| Know your client, screening, financial identifying needs, establishing rapport and trust, developing goals | 3.5 hours | Includes comprehensive intake, curated resources, capacity and financial screening, grief, anxiety disorders, depression and capacity. |
| Drivers of conflict, parenting and co-parenting, resist-refuse dynamics and gatekeeping | 3.5 hours | Includes the impact of separation on parenting, stress, personality disorders, mental health, trauma, grief and neurodiversity. |
| Separating emotions from finances, financial screening, identifying financial goals, future impact of financial decisions and reality checking. | 3.5 hours | Includes framing financials, understanding disclosure, and preventing or addressing economic abuse. |
| Empathy, validation, goal setting, powerful questioning, managing emotions and stress, as well as coaching obstacles | 3.5 hours | Includes how to provide non-judgemental feedback, assertive communication skills, supporting acceptance and action planning. |
| Coping strategies, self-care and wellness, compassion fatigue, and resilience. | 2 hours |
About Us
Jennifer Donison
Jennifer Donison is a Divorce Specialist. She is a trained Therapist, Accredited Family Mediator, Parenting Coordinator, Co-Facilitates the group therapy program, "The Next Chapter" and Divorce Coach.
Julie Gill
Julie Gill is a separation coach, certified specialist in family separation finances, accredited family mediator, as well as an advanced certified elder mediator.
Dr. Kim Harris
Kim (Dr. Harris) is a clinical and forensic psychologist providing assessments and treatment to children, adolescents, adults, and families inside and outside of the legal system.
Register Today to Start your Journey into Coaching!
April/May 2025
Our upcoming 5 day ONLINE program scheduled for:
Tuesday, April 22nd
Time: 9am - 5pm
(full hour for lunch)
Monday, April 28th
Time: 9am - 1pm
Tuesday, April 29th
Time: 9am - 1pm
Monday, May 5th
Time: 9am - 1pm
Tuesday, May 6th
Time: 9am - 1pm
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Divorce Coach Institute of Ontario