Protecting Your Children: How to Make High-Conflict Co-Parenting Work Best for You and Your Children; with guests Diane Dierks and Rick Voyles

We know that co-parenting in and of itself is challenging, but what about co-parenting with someone who is high conflict? This week we have two incredibly knowledgeable guests in all things co-parenting. Diane Dierks and Rick Voyles join Michelle Dempsey-Multack to educate listeners on what they can do when they find themselves co-parenting with someone who is high conflict. They dig deep into: The top co-parenting dilemmas Protecting your children Their feelings on "grey rocking" a high-conflict co-parent Having flexible communication to better help your children AND MUCH MORE Diane Dierks is a licensed marriage and family therapist, as well as the executive director of the Center for Navigating Family Change (www.CNFC.org), a non-profit that provides court-ordered parenting education and co-parenting services to the state of Georgia. She has been a parenting coordinator and reunification therapist for many years and provides consultation and expert witness services in high-conflict custody matters. She resides in St. Simons Island, Georgia with her husband and their three-legged Lab mix and one-eyed Yorkie. She has two grown children and two grandchildren. Rick Voyles is CEO of the Center for Dispute Solutions, as well as a certified business coach, an anger management specialist, and a professional mediator. Rick travels internationally, training and developing federal mediators in their agency ADR programs. He is a published author, business coach and entrepreneur. He has developed online Mediation Training including over 17 video presentations. He has also produced a TV program, “Conflict Mediation and You” where he discusses topics in conflict management, as well as mediation techniques. Rick is a subject matter expert in the area of Divorce, Co-Parenting, Negotiation, Cross-cultural Communication and Conflict Resolution. He frequently teaches court-ordered co-parenting seminars and is a trained parenting coordinator. He lives in Atlanta with his wife, Janet.  What do you do when the other parent won