By attending this webinar, you will learn how to:

• Recognise how trauma can affect communication, decision-making and participation in legal processes.
• Apply trauma-informed communication and process design strategies to support engagement and procedural fairness.
• Identify practical approaches to managing safety, trust and client support within legal and dispute resolution settings.
• Balance trauma-informed practice with professional obligations, neutrality and effective decision-making.

Anne-Marie Cade
Divorce Coach, Parenting Coordinator and FDRP, DivorceRight

Anne-Marie Cade is a family lawyer who is also an experienced Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner, Nationally Accredited Mediator as well as a Parenting Coordinator and Certified Divorce Coach.

Anne-Marie is the founder and CEO of DivorceRight, a boutique mediation and divorce coaching practice. She is passionate about the work she does as an Alternative Dispute Resolution professional to help her clients reach a peaceful resolution. She provides mediation services as well as coaching and training on topics such as constructive conflict resolution, effective communication, divorce coaching, negotiation, resilience, wellbeing, and parenting coordination. In her coaching and training she provides valuable insights and strategic advice on building conflict intelligence, constructive conflict resolution, conflict management and navigating difficult conversations.

She was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to conduct research internationally in “Best Practice in Parenting Co-ordination” with a view to informing the implementation of the practice in Australia. She has been recognised for her innovative work, receiving the LexisNexis and Janders Dean Legal Innovation Award in 2016. She was also recognised as winner of the Thought Leader of the Year at the Women in Law Awards in 2017. In 2023 she won Australian Mediator of the Year at the Australasian Law Awards. More recently in 2024 she won the following awards at the Australian ADR Awards - Conflict Coach of the Year, ADR Project of the Year and ADR Innovation of the Year. In 2024 she also received the Resolution Institute Certificate Award for Service to dispute resolution

Anne-Marie has a Masters in Family Dispute Resolution and Negotiation. She is also an Adjunct Lecturer at the College of Law in Victoria for their Practical Legal Training course.  

• Lawyers and legal practitioners across all practice areas
• Mediators, conciliators and dispute resolution professionals
• Family dispute resolution practitioners
• In-house counsel and workplace investigators
• Tribunal members, decision-makers and complaints handlers
• Community legal centre, legal aid and government practitioners
• Professionals seeking to improve client engagement and participation in high-conflict or sensitive matters

This webinar is produced in NSW and features a VIC-based practitioner. It is available to all practitioners nationally.  

The time listed for this course is Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST). Please take note of any time differences if you are registering from QLD, WA, SA, NT or from outside Australia.

The course complies with the mandatory requirements of Professional Skills (2 points).

If you intend to claim CPD units for this educational activity, please note that CPD activities are not accredited by the Law Society of NSW or any other equivalent local authority, with the exception of Western Australia. If you hold a practising certificate in a state or territory other than Western Australia and this educational activity extends your knowledge and skills in areas that are relevant to your practice needs or professional development, then you should claim one (1) "unit” for each hour of attendance, refreshment breaks not included. The annual requirement is ten (10) CPD units each year from 1 April to 31 March. Some practitioners, such as accredited specialists, are required to complete more than ten (10) units each CPD year.

Practitioners holding WA practising certificates are eligible to earn CPD points for this course. For instructions to earn CPD points, please click here.  

Please be aware that this webinar organised by the College of Law may be recorded for use on our websites, marketing materials and publications. By attending and participating in a College of Law Continuing Professional Development course, you consent to the College of Law photographing or recording and using your image and likeness and/or voice.