Restorative Trainings
Restorative Legal Practice for High Conflict Separations
Meet Our Instructors
Lisa Teryl is a senior lawyer at Teryl Scott Lawyers Inc., specializing in family law and restorative justice. She brings extensive expertise in family law, human rights law, and conflict resolution. Drawing from her experience, Lisa designed Teryl Scott’s highly successful flat-fee divorce mediation programs to support families through challenging transitions. Recognizing that some divorces require more focused communication strategies, she collaborated with Tod to create the Safe-Parting Program.
Before founding her practice, Lisa served as senior legal counsel for the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission from 2009 to 2015, where she applied a restorative approach to legal matters. In recognition of her contributions, she was honored at the Schulich School of Law’s Extraordinary Alumnae Lunch at Dalhousie University.
Lisa is the sister of Tod Augusta Scott, and together, they developed the concept of Legal Communication Services for Divorce. Their combined experiences allowed them to enhance their individual services, offering more comprehensive support to their clients.
Tod Augusta Scott is an internationally recognized expert in gender-based violence, restorative practices, trauma, and narrative therapy. With over 25 years of experience as the Executive Director and lead therapist of a community-based organization, Tod has shared his expertise across Hong Kong, Singapore, Norway, England, the United States, and every province in Canada.
He has also taught at Dalhousie University’s Department of Social Work and remains a frequent guest speaker. Additionally, Tod co-founded the Canadian Domestic Violence Conference, contributing to advancements in the field through education and advocacy.
Training: The Safe Parting Approach for Restorative Legal Practices
This training provides therapists and counselors with the skills and knowledge to support clients through a unique process of separation and divorce, combining neutral legal facilitation with ongoing therapeutic support. Participants will learn how to effectively collaborate with legal facilitators and work with individual clients to address personal challenges that may obstruct the timely creation of separation agreements.
Key learning objectives include:
- Understanding the role of neutral legal facilitators in the separation process.
- Developing therapeutic strategies to help clients work through emotional and psychological barriers.
- Enhancing communication and conflict-resolution skills to to facilitate more efficient and safe separation agreement development.
- Coordinating with other professionals to foster a client-centered, holistic separation experience.
This training is ideal for therapists and counselors seeking to expand their practice by incorporating collaborative, restorative approaches to separation and divorce. Participants will leave with practical tools to better support clients through this emotionally challenging life transition.
Benefits of The Safe Parting Approach
- Creates fair and reasonable separation agreements
- Prevents abuse between the partners in the process of making a separation agreement
- Prevents clients from engaging in lawfare and financial abuse towards their ex-partner through the court system
- Creates a financial incentive to be fair and reasonable
- Assists people in identifying their values – relational and financial
- Creates a process where clients want to provide grace to the other party
- Addresses the unhelpful ideas that stem from gender-based violence and trauma that impairs people’s ability to create fair and reasonable agreements
- Ensures that lawyers do not inadvertently contribute to increasing conflict between the ex-partners
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