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2021.03.05 Applying Donna Hicks Dignity Model to our Collaborative Practice
Friday, March 05, 2021, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
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NYACP Presents a Virtual Zoom Training

Applying Donna Hicks Dignity Model to our Collaborative Practice

Friday, March 5, 2021
12:00 - 1:30PM

Presented by
Andrea Hirshman, Esq., Joy Rosenthal, Esq. and Teresa Calabrese, Esq.

Understanding the underlying dignity concerns of grievances can make an enormous difference in resolving conflict. Based on the research of Dr. Donna Hicks (Harvard University), this presentation introduces her Dignity Model. We will examine how to lead with dignity, draw out the best in people and apply the Dignity Model to our work. Participants will learn:

• The essential elements of dignity
• How violating dignity creates conflict
• How honoring dignity resolves conflict
• Ways to honor dignity and avoid traps that risk it

Together we will examine how to apply the Dignity Model to our work

Continuing Education Credits will be provided:  1.5 CLE credits


Program Registration

Members: Free 
Non-Members: $49.00

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Upon completing the registration form, you will receive the Zoom log-in information for the meeting in a confirmation email.

Speaker Bios

Teresa Calabrese, Esq.
Teresa Calabrese is a mediator and collaborative lawyer concentrating her practice on serving LGBTQ people and families. Teresa assists individuals, couples and families in creating agreements relating to relationship formation, family building, separation and divorce. Teresa also handles second parent adoption matters and provides basic estate planning services.  Teresa has presented continuing education programs for the CUNY School of Law Community Legal Resource Network, the Family and Divorce Mediation Council of Greater New York, the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, New York Association of Collaborative Professionals, and the New York State Council on Divorce Mediation.  Teresa is a founding member of the Community Legal Resource Network and the LGBTQI Family Professionals of NYC. She is a Co-Chair of the LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York Committee on Family and Matrimonial Law and a member of the Family and Divorce Mediation Council of Greater New York, the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, and the New York State Council on Divorce Mediation.  Teresa is grateful to Andrea Hirshman and Joy Rosenthal for our journey together in exploring Donna Hicks’ Dignity Model, our conversations about integrating the model into our mediation and collaborative process practices and our mutual goal of sharing information about the model with our communities.

Andrea Hirshman, Esq.
Andrea began her legal career in the family law section of Legal Services in Brooklyn and went on from there to handle matrimonial matters in a small boutique law firm. After seeing how litigating divorce tore families apart, Andrea left litigation and founded Hirshman Collaborative Law and Mediation in 2007. She offers divorce mediation, collaborative divorce and negotiated divorce as alternative processes to litigation. The core of Andrea’s practice is recognizing that the greatest common denominator of all people is their desire to be treated as if they matter - at all times.  When working with Andrea,  clients feel heard, understood, and  know they matter. They are able to have difficult conversations under Andrea’s guidance and forge a constructive path forward  together toward resolution of their issues.  Andrea is an active member of the close-knit professional community of mediators and collaborative attorneys in the Greater NY area. She has served on the boards of numerous organizations and is an active member in the NY Association of Collaborative Professionals, FDMCGNY, the NYS Council of Divorce Mediation and the National Association of Divorce Professionals.  She is also a member of the International Association of Collaborative Professionals, the NYS Women’s Bar, NYC Bar Association, and the Association of Conflict Resolution.  She is on the Supreme Court Roster of Mediators for Kings County and NY County, and on the roster of mediators for the NYC Family Courts as well. Andrea  is dedicated to and finds great satisfaction in navigating clients to resolution of their conflicts.  For more  information about Andrea, go to her website at andreahirshman.com.

Joy S. Rosenthal, Esq.
Peacemaker. Negotiator. Lawyer.  Joy S. Rosenthal, Esq. founded Rosenthal Law & Mediation in 2006 to help New York City’s families cope with transitions through divorce and family mediation; and by providing legal services including collaborative divorce, and adoption. She also currently serves as a Trustee and 17A Guardian in the New York City Surrogates’ Courts, and as an adjunct professor of family law at the City University of New York School of Law.  Before opening her own practice, Joy spent ten years representing children, youth and parents in New York City’s Family Courts involved in child protective, custody, visitation and adoption cases, as well as in delinquency and PINS cases through her work with the Legal Aid Society’s Juvenile Rights Practice and as a fellow at NYU School of Law’s Family Defense Clinic.  Joy has extensive mediation, negotiation, trial and appellate experience. She has trained colleagues and students in all aspects of family law.  Joy S. Rosenthal, Esq. graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, receiving a BA in Women’s Studies. She obtained her law degree from the City University of New York School of Law. She is a former president of the Family & Divorce Mediation Council of Greater New York, and served on its board from 2007-2014. She is also the president of One Breath Rising, Inc.  Joy’s vision is to live in a world where people know how to voice their feelings and perspectives, and to treat each other with dignity. Joy’s goals are to help families transition peaceably and honorably and to inspire her students to do the same. Joy’s values are to honor the dignity and self-worth in each of her clients and her students.