Dear Family Courts
By The Katallasso Group
Dear Family CourtsFeb 21, 2022
Restoring Home is coming to educate and support parents before, during, and after court.
Using restorative circles in schools!
Going for the Jugular
How to get the perfect court order for your family.
Supporting Sexually Exploited Youth through a Restorative System Response
Mediation is an opportunity to behave like adults! CleanSlate Mediation
Defining your vision for justice and setting it into motion.
Outrageous Hospitality in Mediation? Stop the sterile environments!
Mediators can influence the environment for chronically conflicted individuals by disarming their angst with a few cool techniques at the start of the mediation. Try this on for yourself and see what happens!
Legal Counsel in Mediation: Techniques to safe-guard party self-determination.
Stopping the adversarial tones in mediation through this helpful technique. This will honor everyone's lens but ultimately safeguard the mediation environment to allow for parties to exercise their free will.
Exercising free will in mediation. It shouldn't feel like an extension of the courtroom in a private setting.
Social work meets family mediation!
Shelly Garrison-McCoy, founding member of Passionate for a Purpose, shares how her social work experience and personal journey bring solid support into her mediation practices with hurting families.
https://passionateforapurpose.online/
https://www.thekatallassogroup.com/directory
Seasoned RN brings her conflict resolution skills to hurting parents.
Erika Lee is a veteran when it comes to pediatric critical care RN. Why and how did she make the leap into family mediation? Find out here as she brings her incredible bedside mannerism into her new practice of mediation with families.
https://www.holisticparentingmediation.com/
https://www.thekatallassogroup.com/directory
Next Gen Leadership Styles in Nonprofit & Youth Work
A Minnesota based nonprofit called Quincy House offers a restorative approach to their work with you. Listen to Program Director, Kaitlyn O'Connor, as she fills us in on how she's envisioning youth work in the days ahead!
https://www.quincyhouse.org/
Starting conversations around intimate partner violence.
Meet Hannah Fordice! The moxie Founder of House of Faith & Freedom. Hannah shares insight on how she's taking a restorative approach to discuss intimate partner violence with church leaders to provide safe havens for victims. Her new book - Ready Refuge is also available on her website.
https://www.houseoffaithandfreedom.org/
Strategically Challenging the Traditional Adversarial Tones.
www.jaimekowilson.com
Directory of Mediators: www.thekatallassogroup.com/directory
Reimagining pastoral care.
Directory of Mediators: www.thekatallassogroup.com/directory
Transforming Pain into Purpose: Celina Valadez's Story
Celina shares her struggles and success as a single mom of 20+ years despite the issues in family court. She shares of her own transformation of turning pain into purpose as she launches a California based mediation practice with her friend Shelly. Celina now offers a peaceful route of conflict resolution as she guides moms like her towards hope.
Passionate for Purpose: www.passionateforapurpose.online
The Katallasso Group Directory of Mediators: www.thekatallassogroup.com/directory
"Burning it to the ground" is against the grain for this family lawyer, Delmar Flynn.
Jen and Lisa interview Delmar Flynn. Delmar is a Mexican-Argentine immigrant family lawyer and transformative family mediator in Edina, Minnesota. Delmar recently took transformative family mediation training. Listen to her story, her advocacy for children, and why she's chosen TFM for serving families. Learn more about Delmar at:
www.fiddlerosband.com or www.thekatallassogroup.com
Pro Se, WHAT?!
Jen's illuminating the "pro-family" court posture of Minnesota and how you can benefit from the court's recommended approach to handling marital dissolution at a fraction of the cost. Links referenced in this episode:
MN ADR homepage: Minnesota Judicial Branch - ADR | Mediation (mncourts.gov)
MN Courts Self-Help Instructions and Forms for Petition for Divorce with Children: Minnesota Judicial Branch - GetForms (mncourts.gov)
The responsibility of the Church in family lawsuits.
Today is your moment, church, to get trained.
50% off ALL of our trainings!
www.thekatallassogroup.com
"That's all I can stands, I can't stands no more!" (Popeye)
It's time, friends. If you've been watching TV or listening to the radio....it's time.
Join our Open House: https://www.thekatallassogroup.com/event-details/connected-kids-initiative-open-house-2
Revolutionizing Family Justice for All Families!
Join us for the conversation: https://www.thekatallassogroup.com/register
Get the guide: https://www.thekatallassogroup.com/resources
What's your satisfaction level with family law and mediation?
Jen and Lisa ask those practicing family law or mediation about their level of satisfaction and what their clients level of satisfaction is. They offer ideas and ways to improve satisfaction for all.
Family Law & Alternative Dispute Resolution Processes
https://www.thekatallassogroup.com/
Lifestyles: What blended family and marital success can look like!
A special interview with Lisa Welter and Heather. Heather shares the personal difficulties all blended families face and how she began bringing peaceful resolution into the heart of the matter. An inspiration for all of us!
Try a Circle with your spouse/significant other:
Select a Talking Piece that is meaningful for you both
Respect the Talking Piece
Round 1: Share what makes you happy about our relationship.
Round 2: Share what makes you sad about our relationship.
Round 3: Where can we go from here?
Lifestyles: What generational tendencies did I inherit?
Take the Peace Assessment: thekatallassogroup.com/assessement
Do a Circle with your girlfriend or significant other:
Grab a talking piece. Respect the talking piece.
Round 1: What did you inherit from the generation that raised you?
Round 2: Looking at your results of the assessment, what's an area that's really standing out to you to address when it comes to generational tendencies?
How to check your self-awareness
TAKE THE ASSESSMENT
Trying a Circle:
Grab a talking piece.
Respect the talking piece.
Round 1: What area of relationship are you most strong in right now?
Round 2: What area needs a little attention? Is that contributing to your sense of frustration?
Lifestyles: Let's Be Honest with Ourselves First
We're kicking off a Lifestyles series! How can we add restorative practices into our important relationships at home, in marriage, with extended family, our kids...we have to address "us first". Let's have an honest conversation with ourselves and how vulnerability fits.
Trying Circle:
Grab a talking piece (meaningful object)
Respect the talking piece
Round 1: Share a time when you were stretched out of your comfort zone and it didn't work out well.
Round 2: Share a time when you were stretched out of your comfort zone and it was life-giving.
How did that impact your willingness to be vulnerable?
Restorative Lifestyles for Peaceful Living
Jen & Lisa are launching a new series called Lifestyles to equip women in the skill of successfully managing conflict where ever she bumps into it. We'll teach you the 3 simple steps of circles in as many scenarios as possible with outlines you can take and use! We'll kick this series off Sept 13 with The Honeymoon Phase. If you are in the first few years of marriage or looking to get married - this is for you or for your friends in this season of life.
Want to ask us to create a circle for a situation you've been unable to resolve? Send us an email with relevant details about the circumstance. We'll include it in our Lifestyles series and also send you an outline to try. Email us at thekatallassogroup@gmail.com
Overcoming the relational impact of abuse.
Am I a fraud?
We understand the strange internal whisper that tells you that you're a fraud or maybe it's all the unresolved issues in your own life holding you back. We "get" it and join Jen as she unpacks this common struggle.
Relationship-focused child welfare strategies
*For Women Only*
Dream & Think Big!
We've captured a live training conversation to share with our listeners. Dream with us and if you love what you are hearing, please join us Friday, July 23 11am-1pm CST for Think Big! (it's free and join the session you love - check out the times on the website). We also invite you to invest in yourself and get trained! Allow us to partner with you as you Think Big! to change the world for families.
FREE EVENTS HERE: https://www.thekatallassogroup.com/calendar
Gen Z women will be the world changers we need.
Got a Gen Z young woman in your home or are you one?
Don't miss this episode!
Check out Think Big! on July 23. 11am-1pm
Calendar invite: www.thekatallassogroup.com
Calling Women Out!
We really are the untapped powerhouse for society's good. If you've ever asked yourself "Why did _________ happen to me? What was the point?" Check this short episode out and share with a girlfriend. We hope it unlocks a passion to go pursue and live out!
Go see what we're up to and what is possible for you. Give us a call or email if you want to connect and process further.
https://www.thekatallassogroup.com/
thekatallassogroup@gmail.com
Creating space for kids to process transitions
Toxic Relationships & Building an Immune Response
We live in a highly anxious society and we offer practical insight on how parents can provide a non-anxious presence to their children. Whether you are untangling from a toxic relationship or not - this might be a wise word for you.
Check out our Moxie Challenge and join in 4th Tuesdays 7pm CST each month.
Toxic Relationships & Finding Happiness
Great news friends! We are now training anyone in family transformative mediation - and it's certified.
Check out the details and join us for the September class!
Toxic Relationships & Accountability
Lisa Welter & Jen Konieczny the leadership distinctions of the family courts and transformative mediation as it relates to toxic relationships and the accountability needed.
My story wasn't acknowledged.
Did you file an affidavit or motion in the courts only to have it overlooked, misinterpreted, or twisted in a direction you never anticipated? Been there, done that - it hurts a lot! Let's talk about why this happens and where your story can be heard, understood, and validated so you can move on. Try out our Moxie Challenge.
What it takes to change the game.
Season 2 is coming May 24! Transformative Mediation & Leadership Series Intro
13. Strengthen your family relationships with Circles
12. Grief hits all of us and Circles can help through transitions.
11. How to establish and facilitate a Circle.
10. Practical tips for conflict circles at home. Special Guest: Kay Pranis
9. Use your voice and talent to change America’s reality.
8. When communities chose to fight FOR each other, rather than against one another.