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6 Week Course: November 9, 2026
Coaching Parents Through Conflict
Reducing Escalation, Strengthening Parenting Plans, and Keeping Children at the Center
Coaching Parents Through Conflict
Reducing Escalation, Strengthening Parenting Plans, and Keeping Children at the Center
Parents often worry about how divorce will affect their children. Ongoing parental conflict can make that adjustment even harder. This professional development course helps divorce coaches deepen their work with individual parents—building skills to reduce escalation, navigate parenting decisions, and keep children’s needs at the center, even when the other parent is not participating.
A parenting plan can establish a schedule. It cannot, by itself, change the conflict parents bring to it.
When unresolved hurt, fear, and entrenched positions drive parenting decisions, even routine exchanges can become recurring disputes. Divorce coaches have an opportunity to work with individual parents before these patterns become established—and to help clients reconsider patterns that are already keeping them stuck.
This six-week live professional development course from Divorce Coaches Academy® explores how coaches can help clients navigate parental conflict, prepare for parenting-plan decisions, and manage the ongoing challenges of parenting after divorce. Drawing on Tracy Callahan’s experience in divorce coaching, mediation, and parenting coordination, the course connects an understanding of conflict dynamics with practical application.
Through case examples, discussion, and applied exercises, participants will explore how to:
Recognize escalation patterns, parenting triggers, and the impact of parental conflict on children.
Help clients examine entrenched positions and move toward child-centered decisions.
Explore parenting-plan details that can become sources of conflict, including transitions, holidays, communication, information sharing, and decision-making.
Prepare clients to discuss their priorities and practical concerns with attorneys and mediators.
Support clearer communication, effective boundaries, and more deliberate responses to ongoing disagreements.
Identify meaningful changes an individual parent can make, even when the other parent is not participating.
Designed for divorce coaches and related family dispute resolution professionals, this course emphasizes the coach’s role in helping parents make thoughtful, practical decisions within their professional scope.
Schedule: Mondays, November 9–December 14, 2026
Time: 1:00–2:30 p.m. Eastern
Format: Six live online classes totaling nine instructional hours
This is a professional development course. It does not confer certification or an additional professional credential. Students who successfully complete the training will receive a certificate of completion and earn 15 CEU's.
Coaching Parents Through Conflict Instructor
Mediator, ADRDC, DCA Founder and Master Educator Tracy Callahan
Tracy Callahan, MA, ADRDC is a Supreme Court Certified Family Mediator, Court Appointed Parenting Coordinator for Florida’s 15th, 17th and 19th Judicial Circuits, and alternative dispute resolution professional specializing in family conflict, separation, co-parenting, and complex interpersonal decision-making. For more than 17 years, she has worked with individuals and families navigating transition and conflict through mediation, education, and structured resolution processes designed to promote durable agreements and improve long-term communication outcomes.
As Founder of Mediating-Matters, LLC, Tracy provides family mediation, marital mediation, parenting plan development, parenting coordination, co-parenting mediation, and conflict resolution services throughout Florida and New York, while also supporting clients nationally and internationally as a certified professional ADR divorce coach. Her work emphasizes self-determination, process integrity, informed participation, and practical strategies that help parties engage more effectively in difficult conversations and negotiations.
Tracy is also Co-Founder of Divorce Coaches Academy® (DCA®), where she leads curriculum development, professional instruction, and educational initiatives focused on advancing competency-based training in divorce coaching as an individual form of conflict management and alternative dispute resolution. Through this work, she has contributed to the development of standards-informed approaches to supporting individuals experiencing family transition and has trained professionals internationally in conflict engagement, ethical practice, and client-centered communication.
Tracy is a trainer, author, and podcast host committed to advancing education and professional standards within the dispute resolution field. She regularly develops and delivers training on conflict management, family transition, ethics, and alternative dispute resolution and has contributed to professional dialogue through speaking engagements and published work. Tracy is co-host of the Divorce Coaches Academy® Podcast and is recognized for her leadership in supporting professionals who work with individuals navigating complex family transitions. She holds both a Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts from New York University and maintains advanced training in family mediation, divorce mediation, parenting coordination, and relationship dynamics.
Tracy’s professional philosophy is grounded in the belief that conflict, when approached intentionally and effectively, can create opportunities for clarity, improved communication, and meaningful resolution.