Learning to co-parent involves being coached towards specific objectives and concrete strategies that will help parents develop an essential new "working" relationship with a former spouse or partner, as co-parents, with a shared goal -- the well-being of their children.

Parents must become sensitized to the behaviours which cause and maintain stress in their children. By acquiring the necessary skills, parents can cushion their children from the negative effects of divorce and develop alternative ways of relating, both with their co-parent and with their children.

It is our philosophy that, although divorce is a painful event for most children, it does not have to be a destructive one. Despite their own distress, parents have it in their power to protect their children from feeling isolated or from being caught in the middle of their parents divorce. The way to do this is to develop the practice of co-parenting.