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A 4- to 6-hour seminar designed to help parents face the challenges of coparenting while protecting their children from harmful conflict and developing a cooperative, child-focused relationship.
Coparenting can present unique challenges for families, but it’s often the children who pay the highest price. Crossroads of Coparenting: A 5-Step Seminar to Shield Children from Harm will help parents identify the behaviors that can harm their children, then learn how to change those behaviors for good. Parents will come away with a powerful toolset for handling conflict, communicating effectively, and promoting a positive, nurturing environment for their children.
The Crossroads of Coparenting seminar is derived from the evidence-based program Cooperative Coparenting through Separation or Divorce and shares scenes from the same video.
To offer this course virtually, order the Streaming option.
A 5-step Plan to Shield Children from Harmful Conflict
In just one session (4-6 hours), parents will learn how to implement the 5 prevention steps:
- Step 1: Keep your child out of the middle.
- Step 2: Allow your child to love both parents.
- Step 3: Work on your own recovery.
- Step 4: Develop new communication skills.
- Step 5: Create a positive new relationship as coparents.
How the seminar works:
The Crossroads seminar is a leader-facilitated coparenting education program that can be used with large or small groups, or even one-on-one. It is designed to be facilitated in a single, 4-hour session, with the option of extending to 6 hours through additional activities. The course incorporates 18 minutes of video embedded in PowerPoint (32 slides), group discussion, activities, reading from the companion Parent’s Guide, and other skill–development methods. Based on the more extensive Cooperative Coparenting program (also available from Active Parenting), Crossroads’ shorter format makes it ideal for court systems to use as a mandated course for coparents undergoing divorce, separation, or custody disputes. The course material applies to all coparents, regardless of their marital or relationship status.
The step-by-step Leader’s Guide (96 pages) lets you know when to play video, show slides, stop for discussion, and how to run activities—making it easy to lead a class.
The comprehensive Parent’s Guide (72 pages) presents essential information, examples, and exercises to reinforce the concepts covered in the seminar and serves as a valuable resource long after the class is over.
The program includes downloadable handouts and a certificate of completion that can be personalized for each seminar participant.
Other Program Materials:
 | Crossroads of Coparenting Leader’s Guide SKU: 3502 | $49.95 | Learn More | ||
 | Crossroads of Coparenting Parent’s Guide SKU: 3501 | $12.95 – $14.95 | Learn More | Purchase Options | |
 | Live webinar – Crossroads of Coparenting LTW- March-18 SKU: 3901A | $189.00 | Learn More | Purchase Options |
Testimonials
“Crossroads is clearly a wake-up call for divorcing parents who may be unknowingly harming their children. This guide does not beat around the bush. In a direct yet sensitive manner, Crossroads provides parents with the skills and insight to prevent divorce abuse. It is about time we had a divorcing seminar that focuses on prevention!”
“As a parent and a survivor of a high-conflict divorce, I found the information in Crossroads to be very helpful. Despite my best intentions, I had been engaging in behavior that hurt those who I love the most: my children. Crossroads points out the traps that well-meaning parents can fall into and gives you practical advice on how to make changes that will leave you and your children happier. Your children are worth the effort of reading and heeding this book.”
“I was really surprised at how many ways I had contributed to putting my children in the middle! Crossroads gave me some important insight into the impact of my own behaviors on my children. Parenting is really difficult especially when you are distracted by your own pain. Thankfully Crossroads has helped me to eliminate most of these behaviors and my children are the beneficiaries!”
“...packed with wise insights and practical tips for establishing a cooperative co-parenting relationship with your child’s other parent. Following the helpful, sensitive and supportive advice in this book will ensure the well-being of your children throughout the divorce process and on into the rest of their lives.”
“The authors…take your hand through the journey of coparenting by mapping the way, offering tools and directions on how to get there, and providing skills training for the trip. Their chapters are like mile-markers; for each one you reach, you’re closer to your destination of healthier parenting and a healthier you.
…Some books talk about coparenting; this one shows you how.”
