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This twelve session co-parenting course is designed to help your clients to be the best parents they can be under the circumstances they are in.

It can be helpful to any parent, but it specifically covers issues for parents going through a separation or divorce, and it will especially help them manage or avoid high conflict issues.

The course was originally developed by Bill Eddy, the president of the High Conflict Institute and the developer of the New Ways for Families method in America.

The course has been used by Family Court systems as well as counsellors, mediators, lawyers, and families out of court. It is based on Bill's twelve years of experience as a child and family counsellor and twenty-one years of experience as a family lawyer.

The team at Interact Support in Australia have reviewed the course, updated the content to be relevant to Australians and the Australian Family Law Act 1975 in collaboration with Mediation Institute who host this online learning program for Interact Support.

In providing clients with this course we want them to have the same information that professionals have and the benefit of what has been learned from other parents' mistakes and successes.

Course Cost

The cost of the course is $198 per parent who enrolls. If your client is experiencing hardship you can provide them with a Scholarship Request form or complete a Scholarship Request Form on their behalf.

We are able to offer a 100% scholarship (free) although people are more likely to complete their studies if they pay something towards the course.

Download - Scholarship Form - New Ways for Families fields.pdf

Course Structure

The course is self-paced allowing the parent to move through the modules at their own pace.

They have six months to complete the course and come back to review it although it should only take 12 hours to complete.

Course Journal

The Course Journal is supplied in Microsoft Word or PDF format so that the parent can enter their comments into the document using a computer or print it and write into it.

The journal allows the parent to keep their thoughts and reflections together as they progress through the program and review their previous reflections. This provides them with a permanent copy of their course responses.

There are three types of questions in the course:

Self-reflection questions - they encourage clients to think about what they have done and how you have managed in the past. They are for their own benefit and they do not have to provide these answers in the coursework
Life Application questions - life application questions are about what they can do in the future with the information they are learning. They are required to complete these questions in order to finish the course and receive a certificate of completion. We encourage them to record their answers in their journal and also to paste or type them into the course. They will be prompted when to copy and paste or type in their Life Application question responses.
Quizzes - there are self-marking quizzes in the course that they will come across from time to time. These are completed online in the course. There is no need to enter them in your journal.

Download the Journal Here

New Ways Journal v2.1 with form fields-1.pdf

How to navigate the course.

The course is set out like a book.

The Modules are the chapters.

In this example for Module 1: Coping with stress (Managed Emotions) you can see:

the pages e.g The Four Big Skills,
the Sub-Headings e.g Coping with stress. They are just for organisation they don't contain content
the self-reflection activities e.g Self-Reflection: How do you usually cope with stress? you respond to these in your journal which you should have just downloaded a moment ago
the life application activities e.g Life Application: How do you express your feelings? you respond to these in your journal AND in the course.
the Quiz Questions - there isn't an example in the image above but you will come across them from time to time and complete the answers online.

Click on modules to view the whole course overview or click on this link to go to the first page - The Four Big Skills

Professional Review - New Ways for Families