Being
a collaborative lawyer means being in a place of continuous learning. You can
be sure than any professional listed on the BC Collaborative Roster Society
website www.bccollaborativerostersociety.com is committed to constant ongoing training. I totally enjoy all the learning. Recently, for instance, I learned that memory
is completely unreliable – that we change and recreate memories every time we
think them. You can read an article
about this in Discover Magazine by Kathleen McGowan. All these important bits of information
outside the conventional practice of law have changed the way I think about how
to help my clients. For instance, about
10 years ago, I learned that rejection can dramatically reduce a person’s IQ
and their ability to reason analytically, while increasing their
aggression. This piece of information
changed the way I behave when serving a client who is feeling rejected. I have
learned how to better provide legal services through learning how to
collaborate with other professionals. I
love learning this way, with others, collaboratively.
