Bridging Parental Conflict® is a certified, research-supported online divorce education class that helps parents recognize the negative impact conflict has on their children’s healthy development and teaches skills to support the long-term well-being of family relationships.
Classes to Fit Your Needs
Taught by experts in the field, Bridging Parental Conflict is offered in two formats: synchronous (or live instruction) and asynchronous (or video-based instruction). Information and content in each version are the same. A certificate of completion is provided for proof of attendance. See class summaries below for more information and registration.
LIVE, ONLINE CLASSES
Bridging Parental Conflict “Synchronous” Format is taught live by experts in the field who interact with participants presenting material and answering questions. Benefits to a “synchronous” or live class include:
- Live, interactive instruction
- Opportunities to ask experts questions
- Hear questions and concerns of parents in the same situation
VIDEO-BASED, E-LEARNING
Bridging Parental Conflict “Asynchronous” Format is taught by the same experts in a video-based E-learning format. Benefits to the “asynchronous” format include:
- Begin now, or anytime that is convenient
- Complete the program on your time
- Privacy easily maintained
- Pause and repeat program content to review important information
Bridging Parental Conflict is designed to assist parents in managing themselves in the conflict, developing parental leadership in co-parenting, and lessening the stress their children feel in the family system. Bridging Parental Conflict is for parents who would like to learn to disengage from the conflict, and especially for parents whose children are struggling. The class is also helpful for other adults who experience the parents’ conflict or are involved in some way, for example stepparents, grandparents, and legal guardians.
Bridging Parental Conflict addresses:
- Children in the middle of parental conflict
- The effects of conflict on the family system
- How families become stuck in conflict
- Challenges children face living in a two-home family system
- Building and maintaining parental leadership in co-parenting
Techniques used in class:
- Group instruction
- Instructor role plays
- Question and answer
- After class Q&A
This program utilizes a safe and directive teaching approach to guide parents through positive, engaging experiences. Parents are given the necessary tools to begin changing the current co-parental relationship, and improved parenting in two-home families.
Class instructors bring years of experience in co-parenting instruction and coaching, family therapy, marriage counseling, child and adolescent therapy, and parent-child reunification.
Parents are not required to attend the same date.