Negotiating for Family Offices

We combine negotiation expertise with insights from family therapy to help our clients identify their “family dance”

Get to grips with negotiating within the family system

In this 3-day Intensive training, Jody Scheier, MSW, LICSW, BCD, and Max Bevilacqua combine their expertise in family systems and negotiation to present frameworks for understanding the overlaps in our personal and professional life and to provide a safe space to explore the difficult conversations you’re facing in your family(-run organization).

  • Difficult Conversations : How to Discuss What Matters Most By Sheila Heen, Doug Stone, and Bruce Patton

    The Family Crucible: The Intense Experience of Family Therapy By August Napier Ph.D with Carl Whitaker M.D.

    Opening Up : The Parenting Journey By Anne Peretz

  • 5:00pm – 6:00pm

    • Welcome , logistics, and opening exercise

    6:00pm – 7:30pm

    • Role of Secrets and family structures

    7:30pm – 8:30pm

    • August: Osage County (Participants encouraged to eat dinner during movie)

    8:30pm – 9:00pm

    • Debrief

  • 10:00am – 10:30am

    • Review Day 1

    10:30am – 11:00am

    • Overview and Day 2 Objectives

    11:00am – 11:30am

    • Opening Exercise

    11:30am – 1:30pm

    • Invisible loyalties, internal senses of justice, multi-directional partiality, and relational dysfunction

    • Narrative Therapy: Separating the person from the problem

    1:30pm – 2:30pm

    • Difficult Conversations, Ladder of Inference, and the “Shifts”

    2:30pm – 3:30pm

    • Walk the Line

    3:30pm – 4:30pm

    • The Generational Cascade and The Notebook

    4:30pm – 5:00pm

    • Debrief

  • 10:00am – 10:30am

    • Welcome back, questions and thoughts for the day

    10:30am – 11:00am

    • Virginia Satir Film

    11:00am – 12:00pm

    • Genogram

    12:00pm – 1:30pm

    • Stakeholder Mapping

    1:30pm – 4:00pm

    • IPS

    4:00pm – 5:00pm

    • Debrief and Wrap- Up

Program Overview

Your Facilitators

Jody Scheier, MSW, LICSW, BCD

Jody Scheier has served on the faculty of the Family Studies program at Wheelock College, the Gerontology Summer Institute at Boston University, the Family Institute of Cambridge where she also co-led the Action Methods and Video Feedback Interest group, and as a senior consultant to The Family Center in Somerville, MA.

She is a teaching consultant at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, a senior Supervisor at The Parenting Journey in Somerville, MA.,and is a Senior Lecturer/ adjunct faculty at Lesley University’s Graduate School, Division of Counseling and Psychology.

She offers training workshops in family therapy and the use and application of action methods; psychodrama, role-play, and role-reversal in clinical interviews, conflict resolution, consultation, and negotiation. She is one of the original developers of the Interpersonal Skills Exercise for the Negotiation Project at Harvard Law School.

Max Bevilacqua, MALD

Maxwell E. Bevilacqua is the Founder and Principal of Mindful Negotiating, a global negotiation advisory and training company focused on family, environmental, labor, international and military law.

Read more about Max here