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Selecting a speaker
Your annual meeting and sponsored continuing education opportunities reflect on your organization. The speaker's ability to engage participants, to recognize and respond to their needs, to entertain and to provide something new and useful not only benefits your organization, but the children and families that your membership serves.
Dr. Garber does all of this. He will work with your organization's planning committee to create a training that brings participants up-to-date, keeps them interested, refuels their compassion and sharpens their skills.
Dr. Garber brings a unique blend of expertise in child and family development, psychotherapies and family law to bear on every training. This perspective opens participants' eyes and broadens their views on children, families and their needs.
- Review Dr. Garber's c.v. here
- Watch or listen to some of Dr. Garber's recent presentations
- Review sample training topics here
Sample trainings
The titles listed below are provided as examples, only. Each is a full-day (6-8 hour) training that Dr. Garber recently conducted. Use these as a starting place to discuss possible topics with your planning committee and with Dr. Garber directly. Please do not read this as a menu inclusive of all possibilities.
Any training can be modified for length, expanding or contracting the depth of presentation, the use of case study materials and the opportunities for discussion with participants accordingly. Presentations can be as brief as 60 minutes or as in-depth as spanning two back-to-back days.
Click on a title of interest to learn more, then return to this page to read further.
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CASE OF RESIST/REFUSE DYNAMICS
CREATING BULLET-PROOF PARENTING PLANS
TRANSITIONAL OBJECTS: ASSESSING AND FACILITATING CHILDREN'S FELT SECURITY IN THE CONTEXT OF FAMILY CONFLICT
Built on Dr. Garber's 2020 Family Court Review article, this presentation invites professionals to understand the polarized child in the context of a comprehensive ecological model. Thirteen non-mutually exclusive dynamics are discussed, each of which can and often does participate in a child's contact resistance.
Structure diminishes anxiety.
Anxiety fuels conflict.
Investing the time now in creating a highly structured parenting plan will save litigants and the courts valuable resources through the remainder of the child's minority. Here's how...
Dr. Garber's pioneering use of transitional objects to help children better manage the stresses of family transition has changed the field. This training gives family law professionals both a new set of tools with which to understand and serve children's needs and a chance to look inward at their own sources of security.
KEEPING KIDS
OUT OF THE MIDDLE:
ASSESSING AND INTERVENING WITH HIGH CONFLICT FAMILIES
CHILD DEVELOPMENT
FOR FAMILY LAW PROFESSIONALS
"HOW DO YOU GET REFUELED?"
ASSESSING AND SERVING CHILDREN'S EMOTIONAL NEEDS IN THE MIDST OF HIGH CONFLICT
Triangulation.
Polarization.
Enmeshment.
Infantilization.
Adultification.
Parentification.
Alienation.
There is no DSM of family dynamics.
This training introduces family law professionals to the identification and remediation of these dysfunctional dynamics.
Its not enough to have
once been a child yourself.
This presentation provides family law professionals with an empirical basis upon which to understand and assess concepts like "the mature minor" and the application of these concepts to practical questions including in camera interview and the child's self-determination.
They may be legally divorced.
Now they need to get emotionally divorced.
Understanding how parents get their emotional fuel tanks filled is critical to assuring that children' emotional tanks are filled. This presentation builds on attachment theory to provide family law professionals with a very practical means of serving children's needs. Professional self-care is emphasized as a corollary and model to litigants.
Costs and conditions
- Dr. Garber will request a stipend for provision of each training opportunity in addition to full remuneration of travel, room and board.
- Costs vary as a function of preparation time, presentation time, travel time and expenses and each organization's resources.
- Dr. Garber will work with your organization to make costs reasonable.
- Costs can sometimes be depleted by incorporating group book purchases.
Please reach Dr. Garber directly to discuss your training needs, topics, schedules and associated costs
Travel
- Dr. Garber will drive within a three- to four-hour radius of his office in Nashua, New Hampshire except in extreme weather.
- Dr. Garber prefers to fly from Manchester, New Hampshire (MHT). When connections and flight times are prohibitive, Dr. Garber will fly from Boston Logan (BOS).
Intensive Peer Mentoring
Dr. Garber provides an alternative to conventional large group continuing education programs for family law professionals interested in fine-tuning child-centered skills in one or more specific areas of practice.
Intensive Peer Mentoring is a small group (usually three professionals) three day empirically grounded, child-centered, case-oriented consultative service. For details, please see the sample Service Agreement
This intensive, advanced training includes:
- Grounding in relevant ethics, guidelines and standards of practice by jurisdiction and guild.
- Survey of the relevant literature
- Review and constructive critique of (sanitized) sample reports
- Review of relevant assessment and intervention instruments
- "Devil's advocate" argument for and against current practices
- Role play enactments of relevant deposition and testimony
Intensive Peer Mentoring is a form of consultation. It does not constitute supervision. Dr. Garber cannot accept liability for participants' professional conduct.
Intensive Peer Mentoring does not presently qualify for continuing education credits. Dr. Garber will take reasonable steps to support participant efforts to acquire relevant credits on a case-by-case basis.
Learn more about Intensive Peer Mentoring here
Reach Dr. Garber directly to discuss these opportunities
Details
Experience has proven that the effort to anticipate the minutiae of each training helps to avoid frustrating delays and catastrophic failures. While some contingencies cannot be avoided (e.g., cancelled flights, electrical failures mid-presentation), others can. With this in mind, the following details are respectfully requested:
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