Co-Parenting Facilitation brings co-parents together to understand how to navigate your Co-Parenting relationship from a healthy and productive place. Our shared goal is to move families from a place of disconnect to a collaborative, productive Co-Parenting relationship that benefits your children and guarantees them a healthy future.
How it works:
Clients come to us through a variety of channels—attorney referrals, online searches, Friend of the Court recommendations, signed Consent Orders (also called Stipulated Orders) mandating Co-Parenting Facilitation, even suggestions from friends and family.
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First, Jordana Wolfson meets separately with each parent. This is an opportunity to hear your whole history, from both perspectives. Together, we’ll delve into your relationship, your parents’ relationships, your support network, your sibling relationships, and how you relate to relatives and friends. We learn everything about you individually and in the relationship that brought you to this point. To understand where, how and why things went wrong, we must understand both parties really well! Plus, we want to build a solid foundation of trust to successfully work together toward a better Co-Parenting relationship.
Then we look at your relationship. How did you meet? What was the timeline? Where did the relationship disintegrate? Who initiated the divorce? How did the divorce process unfold? So much of how you interact today comes from what happened during the relationship.
Now, you’re ready to sit together in the same room!
- We’ll discuss your vision for your children.
- We’ll explore your vision for your Co-Parenting relationship.
- You’ll learn about Co-Parenting—what works and what doesn’t.
- We’ll discuss the potential for long-term emotional damage that comes from high conflict, what it means to have polarized or chameleon children, and how to navigate Co-Parenting from infancy through the teen years and beyond.
- We’ll help you learn to coordinate advocacy efforts in school, with medical teams, education support service networks, and extra-curricular staff members, on your child’s behalf.
And finally, we will create ways to keep you on track and guide parenting decisions.
Co-Parenting Facilitation can include creating a Parenting Time Agreement if you are in the midst of a divorce or separation to structure time with your children. If parents are already separated or divorced, they may also utilize Co-Parenting Facilitation to modify their current Parenting Time Agreement if both parties are willing.
Most people don’t realize they have options and choices when it comes to Parenting Time! We get as specific as possible so there is no confusion once the divorce is final, and the family starts living according to the Parenting Time Agreement.
Many factors influence the details of a Parenting Time Agreement, including:
- The hours each parent works
- How your family celebrates holidays
- Milestones & special days
- Birthdays
- How schedules & needs change in summer compared with the school year