The International Centre for Children and Family Law

06/04/2026

Enrolments for Meeting With Children are open until 14 June.

If you work with children in family law or child protection and have been thinking about this course, there's still time to register for the current cohort. The program is self-paced to start, so you can join now and work through the early modules in your own time.

Register here: https://iccfl.training/events/meeting-with-children-a-child-centred-approach-562/

05/31/2026

Upcoming Courses at ICCFL

Two ICCFL programs are starting this week. If you have been considering either of these, enrolments are still open.

🟢 Meeting With Children: A Child-Centred Approach
A foundational program for practitioners working with children in family law and child welfare contexts. Blended learning: self-paced online content, live Zoom tutorials, and in-person practice days in Ashfield, Sydney or Canmore, Alberta.
Starts 2 June 2026.
https://iccfl.training/events/meeting-with-children-a-child-centred-approach-562/

🔵 Meeting With Parents
For practitioners who have already completed Meeting With Children. This online program focuses on preparing parents and delivering child feedback in ways that are safe, ethical, and developmentally informed.

Starts 1 June 2026.

https://iccfl.training/events/meeting-with-parents-id-26-05/

DateJun 01 2026Ongoing... TimeStart Date9:00 am Course Fee $975.00 Meeting with ParentsMeeting With Parents (ID 26.05)Course OverviewTotal Course Hours15Live Tutorial Hours5Live Tutorials and Practice SessionsSessionDateTimeLocationModeMWP 26.05Live Tutorial 106/01/2026 8:30 am (Sydney time)OnlineOn...

05/30/2026

Q: If I'm an experienced professional, why can't I just use my intuition when working with children?

A: It's a fair question. But in high-stakes environments like family law and child protection, improvisation is a risk we can't afford.

When we improvise, we risk leading the child to fit an adult agenda. A structured, manualised approach ensures the professional follows the child's lead, not the other way around. It also ensures that a child's voice is brought forward only when the system around them is safe enough to receive it.

Structure doesn't limit your empathy. It gives it a safe place to work.

05/27/2026

FAQs: How much time do I really need?

It is one of the most common questions we get about the Meeting With Children program. Here is the honest answer.

The course is 32 hours across three months. The self-paced portion works out to a handful of hours per week. That might look like one focused session on a Tuesday morning, two shorter blocks across the week, or small chunks fitted around your caseload.

The structure is intentional. It is designed to build capability steadily, not pull you away from your work.

Add in the live tutorials and two in-person practice days, and you have a program that is serious without being impossible.

The next cohort begins 2 June 2026. Enrol now: https://iccfl.training/events/meeting-with-children-a-child-centred-approach-562/

05/25/2026

Most practitioners want to get this right. The question is whether the approach they're using actually creates the conditions for children to communicate safely.

Verbal interviews alone rarely do.

Swipe to see what child-centred practice looks like when it starts from where children actually are.

05/20/2026

One of the things practitioners tell us they didn't expect: how much the in-person component changes things.

The Meeting With Children program begins online. A live orientation on 2 June, then self-paced learning and live tutorials with Jon Graham and Dr Lorri Yasenik via Zoom. Flexible, structured, and designed to fit around your work.

Then in August, you come together in person. Two full days of hands-on practice with other practitioners. For those based in Canada, that happens at Spring Creek in Canmore, Alberta.

It is a genuinely beautiful place to do serious professional work.

The next cohort begins 2 June 2026. Enrol now: https://iccfl.training/events/meeting-with-children-a-child-centred-approach-562/

05/20/2026

The practitioners in these photos come from across family law and child welfare. Mediators, lawyers, parenting coordinators, child protection workers, mental health practitioners. Different roles, the same commitment to bringing children's voices forward safely, authentically, and with proper structure behind them.

This is what that looks like in practice. People learning together, working with materials, building skills they will carry into complex cases.

Children have the right to be supported by properly trained professionals. The practitioners in these photos have chosen to take that seriously.

Find out more: https://iccfl.training/

05/20/2026

Jon Graham and Dr Lorri Yasenik are presenting at the AFCC 63rd Annual Conference in Seattle this May.

Their session: A Decision-Making Model for Including Children in Parenting Coordination.

In high-conflict parenting coordination work, knowing whether and when to bring a child's voice forward is one of the most complex clinical decisions a practitioner can make. This session introduces a structured approach to that decision, built around an expanded version of the Child-Centred Continuum Model.

Attendees will explore how to assess the value, weight, and timing of child inclusion for each family, how to navigate varied presentations of parents when planning for inclusion, and how to ensure feedback to parents and decision-makers is delivered safely and appropriately.

Participants will leave with a practical decision-making tool they can integrate directly into their parenting coordination practice.

📍 AFCC 63rd Annual Conference, Seattle
📅 27 to 30 May 2026

Register now for the conference: https://www.afccnet.org/63rdannual/

05/15/2026

Today is the International Day of Families.

For many children, family is not a stable backdrop. It is a system in flux, shaped by separation, conflict, and the decisions of adults around them.

Article 9 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child recognises a child's right to maintain relationships with both parents, even when families separate. That right doesn't enforce itself. It depends entirely on the professionals involved having the skills to navigate it well.

As Jon Graham puts it: "Our work is not about relationship breakdown. It is about the re-organisaiton of the family system. It's about ensuring that everyone especially children don't get lost in the process."

This is what ICCFL's training is built around.

05/11/2026

NOW ENROLLING | Meeting With Children: A Child-Centred Approach begins 2 June.

This 32-hour blended program is designed for practitioners working with children in family law and child protection contexts. You'll build structured, evidence-based skills through self-paced learning, live tutorials with Jon Graham and Dr Lorri Yasenik, and in-person practice sessions in Sydney or Canmore.

CPD-recognised. Internationally delivered. Practical skills you can use straight away.

Enrol now: https://iccfl.training/events/meeting-with-children-a-child-centred-approach-562/