•Private practice (1986 – present)

●Cofounder / Owner of Colorado Team Mediation (2006 - present)

•Director of the Arapahoe District Court Mediation Division for Domestic Relations (1993 - 1995)

•Contract mediator for the Colorado Judicial Department's Office of Dispute Resolution (1987 - 1995)

•Mediator/paralegal at the Mediation*Arbitration Center at the University of Denver College of Law (1988)

•Co-chair of the Mediation/Domestic Violence Task Force (1988-89)

•20 years' experience as a paralegal/legal secretary
 

Education/Training

•2nd Rocky Mountain ADR Retreat, January 2007

●1st Rocky Mountain ADR Retreat and Symposium, January 2006

•40 hour basic mediation training role play coach in the January 2006 training conducted by the Colorado Bar Association and Continuing Legal Education

•Advanced Mediation Training with Gary J. Friedman of the Center for Mediation in Law March 2005
 

•Level II Collaborative Law Training, Nancy Cameron, LLB, Susan Gamache, Ph.D, Doreen Gardner Brown, RPHEC, CFP (October 2004)

•Non-Violent Communication Workshop with Marshall Rosenberg (April 2004)

•Level 1 Collaborative Law Training by Pauline Tesler (November 2001)

•Advanced Divorce Mediation (1991)

•40 hour divorce and child custody mediation training  by CDR Associates, Boulder, Colorado (March 1986)

• attended Madison University, Canal Zone College and Arizona State University

Professional Memberships, Publication and Presentations

●Presenter on Energetic Boundaries, Sacred Space and Accessing the Guides Within at 2nd Rocky Mountain Retreat "Transforming the Conflict Practitioner," January 2007

●Presenter on collaborative skills at practice group meetings for the Rocky Mountain Collaborative Law Professionals practice group, 2001 to present.

•Presenter on “Recognizing Who You Bring To The Table – The Professional’s Conflict Comfort Zone,” Bench and Bar Family Law Institute, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, August 2004
 

•Presenter on “The Paradigm Shift – Enhancing Collaborative Skills – Learning from Ourselves,” to the Pike’s Peak Collaborative Law Professionals meeting, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 2004
 

•Keynote speaker and panel member at the 15th Annual Attorney Mediator Dialogue, FAMILY LAW: THE FUTURE IS NOW, April 16, 2004, sponsored by the Colorado Council of Mediators, Family Law Section of the Colorado Bar Association and the Metropolitan Denver Interdisciplinary Committee

•Presenter on Collaborative Skills, “The Paradigm Shift: Unlearning Counterproductive Habits” (1 CLE credit), March 17, 2004, Members Meeting of the Colorado Collaborative Law Professionals

Member, Association of Conflict Resolution (ACR) (2007)

Member, Mediators Without Borders (2007)

•Professional Mediator, CCMO.  Past member of Board of Directors (1990-91; 2004), Secretary and editor of CCMO Monthly newsletter.

•Co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Collaborative Law Professionals (RMCLP at www.rmclp.com) in December 2001, an active and growing group of independently practicing collaborative lawyers, mediators, mental health professionals and financial experts

•Consultant Member of Colorado Collaborative Law Professionals (CCLP at www.cclawp.org).  Past member of Board of Directors (2004-05) and editor of newsletter (2004-2007).

•Presenter – Mediators at the Well, a one-day workshop for mediators in Denver, Colorado (1995)

•Presenter – 40 hour Basic Mediation Training, Carbondale, Colorado (1994)
•Solo mediator in a Live Mediation Demonstration, CCMO Spring Meeting, Denver, CO (1995)

•Presenter on Mediation, Colorado Trial Lawyers Conference, Denver, CO (1995)

•Presenter on Active Listening and Reality Testing, CCMO Fall Conference, Denver, CO (1992)

•Presenter on Introduction to School-Based Mediation for Teachers and Staff at Baker Middle School, Denver, CO (1992)

•Presenter on Building a Mediation Practice, CCMO Spring Meeting, Denver, CO (1992)

•Presenter for Imaginal Education Workshop with the Institute of Cultural Affairs, Denver, CO (1992)

•Article published in Trial Talk, Colorado Trial Lawyers Magazine, Vol. 41, Issue 2 on “How You and Your Client Can Make the Best Use of Mediation”

•Practitioner Member, Academy of Family Mediators (1988-1995)

•Public education forums at Bridges Divorce Support Group; National Association of Social Workers, Colorado Chapter; Stepfamilies of America; Lincoln Elementary School PTSA; Colorado Department of Highways.