Date & time: 16 October 2025, 1pm to 2pm AEDT
Pre-mediation divorce coaching is crucial for helping your clients move from chaos to clarity as they navigate the emotional and practical challenges of family resolution. This session is designed for mediators, family lawyers, and dispute resolution professionals who want to integrate coaching principles into their practice, enhance client engagement and improve the quality of mediation outcomes.
At the end of this program, you will discover how divorce coaching can:
Facilitated by: Anne-Marie Cade, Divorce Coach & Family Mediator, DivorceRight and Adjunct Lecturer, College of Law
At the end of this live webinar, you will earn 1 CPD point.
From Chaos to Clarity: Preparing Clients for Family Mediation.
This webinar explores the critical role of pre-mediation divorce coaching in helping clients navigate both the emotional and practical challenges of family dispute resolution.
By attending this webinar, you will discover how divorce coaching can:
This live webinar is ideal for mediators, family lawyers, and dispute resolution professionals who want to integrate coaching principles into their practice, enhancing client engagement and improving the quality of mediation outcomes.
This webinar is produced in VIC and features a NSW based practitioner. This webinar is available to practitioners from all jurisdictions.
If you intend to claim CPD units for this educational activity, please note that CPD activities are not accredited by the Law Society of NSW or any other equivalent local authority, with the exception of Western Australia. If you hold a practising certificate in a state or territory other than Western Australia and this educational activity extends your knowledge and skills in areas that are relevant to your practice needs or professional development, then you should claim one (1) "unit” for each hour of attendance, refreshment breaks not included. The annual requirement is ten (10) CPD units each year from 1 April to 31 March. Some practitioners, such as accredited specialists, are required to complete more than ten (10) units each CPD year.
Practitioners holding WA practising certificates are eligible to earn CPD points for this course. For instructions to earn CPD points, please click here.
The time listed for this course is Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT). Please take note of any time differences if you are registering from QLD, WA, SA, NT or from outside Australia.
This course complies with the mandatory requirements of Substanive Law (0.5 point) and Professional Skills (0.5 point)
Anne-Marie Cade
Divorce Coach & Family Mediator, DivorceRight .
Anne-Marie Cade is a family lawyer who is also an experienced Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner, Nationally Accredited Mediator as well as a Parenting Coordinator and Certified Divorce Coach.
Anne-Marie is the founder and CEO of DivorceRight, a boutique mediation and divorce coaching practice. She is passionate about the work she does as an Alternative Dispute Resolution professional to help her clients reach a peaceful resolution. She provides mediation services as well as coaching and training on topics such as constructive conflict resolution, effective communication, divorce coaching, negotiation, resilience, wellbeing, and parenting coordination. In her coaching and training she provides valuable insights and strategic advice on building conflict intelligence, constructive conflict resolution, conflict management and navigating difficult conversations.
She was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to conduct research internationally in “Best Practice in Parenting Co-ordination” with a view to informing the implementation of the practice in Australia. She has been recognised for her innovative work, receiving the LexisNexis and Janders Dean Legal Innovation Award in 2016. She was also recognised as winner of the Thought Leader of the Year at the Women in Law Awards in 2017. In 2023, she won Australian Mediator of the Year at the Australasian Law Awards. More recently in 2024, she won the following awards at the Australian ADR Awards - Conflict Coach of the Year, ADR Project of the Year and ADR Innovation of the Year. In 2024 she also received the Resolution Institute Certificate Award for Service to dispute resolution.
Anne-Marie has a Masters in Family Dispute Resolution and Negotiation. She is also an Adjunct Lecturer at the College of Law in Victoria for their Practical Legal Training course.
Please be aware that this webinar organised by the College of Law may be recorded for use on our websites, marketing materials and publications. By attending and participating in a College of Law Continuing Professional Development course, you consent to the College of Law photographing or recording and using your image and likeness and/or voice.
Kathryn Kearley’s handout is outstanding. More comprehensive than expected.
Past Attendee
Kathryn was a great presenter – interesting and engaging. The materials are excellent.
Past Attendee
For quite a complex area of law, the seminar & the presenter was able to cover a good comprehensive range of topics in a short period of time. She was attentive to questions and managed to address them.
Past Attendee
Kathryn was very passionate and knowledgeable, I learned a lot!
Past Attendee
Kathryn demonstrated extensive knowledge and experience in the subject matter. I found the webinar interesting and well presented.
Past Attendee