Welcome to Cooperative Solutions

 
A better way to resolve conflict and reach Cooperative Solutions!

Dr. Barbara Landau, President of Cooperative Solutions, is a Psychologist, Lawyer, Mediator & Trainer. In 2004, Dr. Landau received the Long Term Achievement Award (FAMMA) from Family Mediation Canada. In 2003, she received the "Distinguished Mediator Award" from the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR). In 2002, The "Award For Excellence in Dispute Resolution" was given to her by the Ontario Bar Association (OBA). The lifetime title of "Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association", was awarded for outstanding contribution to clinical psychology.

She has offered conflict resolution, and mediation workshops in several countries, as well as family arbitration and collaborative practice courses, to lawyers, mental health professionals, teachers, students, human resources specialists, and others. Many of these courses are offered through the University of Waterloo, Conrad Grebel University College.

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We've re-designed our site to better serve you. A fresh and more convenient interface.

We've also designed a new Training Website. This new site highlights all our course training programs and allows you to easily review and register online.

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Family Mediation, Arbitration and Collaborative Practice Handbook, 5th Edition

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Caught in the Middle - Parenting Through Divorce - A TVO Your Voice Special

Watch Barbara Landau in this informative Interactive Interview - May 28th, 2007


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In Debt Do You Part

Divorce can leave you emotionally shattered – and financially crippled. Increasingly, unhappy couples are staying together because they can’t find a way to break up without going broke

Written By Christopher Shulgan - in a recent issue of Chatelaine Magazine


...Barbara Landau started working in the field of family law more than three decades ago as a psychologist, then went on to earn a master's degree in law from Toronto's Osgoode Hall Law School and practise as a family lawyer. Today, she's most passionate about her work as a divorce mediator, an independent third party who helps couples negotiate a separation agreement without relying too much on the use of expensive lawyers. It's mediation, she says, that leads to the least arduous, most efficient divorces. "I'm finding a lot of couples who come in who don't want to pay to become enemies," says Landau. "Mediation increases trust and decreases animosity."
 
 
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Divorce Magazine provides individuals and families who are going through the transition of separation and divorce with helpful information, support, and guidance.