Divorce Coach Training

Julie Gill is proud to be a co-founder of the first Ontario based Divorce Coaching program with Jennifer Donison and Dr. Kim Harris.

We offer this divorce coaching program through Breakforward Divorce Coach Institute (Breakforward.org)

This intensive 70 hour online course is live and interactive. It teaches not only the fundamentals of divorce coaching but provides valuable learning for parenting coordinators(PC), mediators or other professionals working with people contemplating separation, experiencing separation or post separation.

Divorce coaches work within the collaborative process, mediation and litigation. Coaches can work with one party, both parties and with self-represented and represented clients.

While coaching borrows many skills from mediation and PC work, it is very different. Divorce coaches are not neutrals, they dig deeper and provide support in different ways which is the reason we created this program. Attendees can use this training to fulfill continuing education requirements in different practice areas, start their divorce coaching journey or complete the suggested requirements of practicing as a divorce coach.

This program includes training around knowing your client, normal responses to separation and divorce, drivers of conflict, personality and mental health, trauma and grief and neurodiversity. It includes training around co-parenting including how address gatekeeping and resist/refuse dynamics. It includes additional screening training for financial abuse, coercive control and capacity. It includes training around how to frame financial discussions and help clients identify their financial goals while understanding the future impact of their decisions. It includes training around accountability, goal setting, action planning and powerful questioning.

We also talk about ethics, boundaries, communicating with other professionals, obstacles, and required training for divorce coaches. We have set Standards of Practice and require attendees to commit to them in their practice.

This training is for:

• Mediators who want to learn how to use their knowledge to expand their services into coaching.
• Parenting Coordinators who want to learn how to perform the education, conflict management and communication aspects of PC without a court order, arbitration award or separation agreement.
• Collaborative family law professionals who want to learn how a coach or how to better support their clients through this process.
• Family law lawyers who want to learn how to better support clients through non-legal issues through the use of coaching.
• Real estate and financial professionals who want to learn how to better support clients experiencing separation or divorce.

Our next program is scheduled to start in February 2026. For dates or to register go to breakforward.org. For more information please reach out to Jennifer Donison at jennifer@mychildrenandme.com.