Collaborative Family Law Group host Guildford SOS divorce road show
July 7, 2010 by Suzy
Host’s: spokesman and Chartered Financial Planner Ian Taylor is a member of the Collaborative Family Law Group based on the Surrey Hampshire border, which plans to work with the Starting Over Show to create a unique local resource for people living or working in Surrey & Hampshire – legal & financial surgeries, relationship & parenting guidance, holistic healing and even start up business opportunities.
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SOS Surrey Hampshire Border is an empowering resource for people going through divorce and family break up, offering free legal, financial and relationship advice, parenting coaches, holistic healers – all in one convenient place to drop in and experience on a Thursday evening.
The first host of the SOS Surrey/Hampshire border Road Show venture is the Collaborative Family Law Group, a group of forward thinking family lawyers and financial planners committed to helping separating couples resolve their difficulties in a dignified manner. Their aim is to offer an alternative to the traditional contested method through the courts.
The group includes 9 family lawyers, all of whom are collaboratively trained and 2 financial planners who are accredited by Resolution as divorce specialists. The lawyers are all members of Resolution and trained in alternative methods of dispute resolution, whilst the financial planners do extensive work with divorcing couples, looking at the financial impact of divorce and pension splitting. Where appropriate they can also provide lifetime cashflow modelling for either party either before or after the settlement process.
Ian Taylor, a spokesman for the group, said it was exciting to be the first group in the UK to directly host a local SOS Roadshow event: “I think the SOS Roadshow is an excellent idea, both to promote our services and those of other high quality professionals in the area. More importantly, it raises awareness of the positive benefits of dealing with relationship breakdown in an adult, non confrontational, way. The benefits of this approach for separating couples, and particularly for their children, are huge.”
Find out more about collaborative law here……
Find out more about the Collaborative Family Law Group here……
Holiday Inn Guildford: venue for surrey/hants sos road show
July 1, 2010 by Suzy
Holiday Inn Guildford GU2 7XZ
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How to Find Us
London Heathrow( LHR)
- Distance: 25.0 MI/40.23 KM SOUTH WEST to Hotel
- On M25 take exit for A3 Guildford, on the A3 follow signs and take exit for Cathedral/ University. Take 3rd left on first roundabout and the 2nd left on the 2nd roundabout. Hotel is located at the end of the drive
Gatwick( LGW)
- Distance: 38.0 MI/61.16 KM NORTH WEST to Hotel
- Take M25 towards Gatwick Airport. On M25 take exit for A3 Guildford, on the A3 follow signs and take exit for Cathedral/ University. Take 3rd left on first roundabout and the 2nd left on the 2nd roundabout. Hotel is located at the end of the drive
- Station Name: Guildford
- Distance: 1.5 MI/2.41 KM SOUTH WEST to Hotel
- Taxi Charge (one way): £ 7.00 GBP
- Exit the station, and follow signpots to the Univeristy of Surrey / Royal Surrey Hosipital. As you approach the first roundabout take the first exit, you then approach the second roundabout, where you take the 2nd Exit, we are just off the roundabout
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- Underground Station Name: London Waterloo
- Distance: 25.0 MI/40.23 KM SOUTH EAST to Hotel
- Taxi Charge (one way): £ 5.00 GBP
Holiday Inn Guildford GU2 7XZ
exhibitor list: surrey/hants border divorce road show
July 1, 2010 by Suzy
Summary of exhibitors below – full version with pictures in the Visitors Pack her here…..
The list of our experts and holistic support for starting over from divorce, redundancy and other life changes, at SOS 22 September 2011:
Mediation: RHW Solicitors: Mediator Samantha Jago
Legal: Gordon Dadds: Collaborative lawyer Naim Qureshi
Legal: Collaborative Family Law Group: Hosts of the Surrey/Hants SOS Road Show
Legal: W.Davies: Wills/probate/trusts
Legal: Lee Newell BardellsLLP: Redundancy & Unfair Dismissal
Finance: Church’s Financial Planning: financial planning, pensions and divorce specialists
Finance: Davenport Financial Management: pensions, financial planning and mediation
Finance: Jason Peace of Eurodebt Financial Services: Providing debt management solutions to people in financial distress
Finance: E-Accountants: Kim Teh FCA business tax & accounting advice
Coaching: Soul Conneczions: coaching specializing in relationship breakdown
Coaching: Rhiannon Ford Divorce Coaching: practical & emotional support through divorce/separation
Coaching: Achievers Coaching: Annie Winfield is a Survivor Coach
Counselling: Jennifer Hooper: Family Crisis & Wellbeing Therapist MBACP
Counselling: Jenny Edwards: Sexual & relationship therapist
Parenting: Too Clever For Counselling and Still Need Help?: NLP based masterclass for mothers.
Parenting: My Offspring: online diary & tools to reduce post divorce conflict
Parenting: BeStepWise: professional support for step-families
Wellbeing: Scott Collier Photography
Wellbeing: Fresh Eyes Consulting: skills for talking when talking gets tough
Wellbeing: The Mystic Housewife: spiritual psychotherapy
Wellbeing: Magnus the Masseur: African Rhythms Massage combined with truthful conversation
Wellbeing: Chandananda Yoga: De-stress Yoga techniques
Wellbeing: Cory Cook Professional Organiser: Organising solutions for big life changes
Wellbeing: Farnham Fitness & Wellbeing Centre: Much more than just a gym
Business opportunities: Paul Way: Utility Warehouse - helping people save money on bills and creating an income for themselves
Charities: Surrey Law Centre: Specialist legal advice for those eligible for legal aid
Charities: South West Surrey Domestic Abuse Outreach Service: Support for people suffering from any type of domestic abuse (Outreach Service 01483 577392, Woman’s Aid 0808 2000247)
financial, legal powwows & divorce mediation advice
June 30, 2010 by Suzy
This event is now over but email suzy@startingovershow.co.uk if you would like to be informed when the next events are planned.
FINANCIAL
Financial advice from Ian Taylor of Davenport Financial and Paul Cobley of Church’s Financial Planning. More information here…..
LEGAL – FAMILY LAW
Free legal collaborative family law powwow : Gordon Dadds: Collaborative lawyer Naim Qureshi
MEDIATION
Free Mediation powwow with RHW Solicitors: Mediator Samantha Jago
DIVORCE COACHING
Free 1-1 wellbeing/coaching powwow with Rhiannon Ford Divorce Coaching: practical & emotional support through divorce/separation. More information here….
LIFE COACHING
Free 1-1 wellbeing/coaching powwow with Marina Pearson of Soul Conneczions. Coaching specializing in relationship breakdowns.
SURVIVOR COACHING
Free 1-1 survivor coaching powwow with Annie Winfield of Achievers Coaching: move your professional and personal life forwards. More information here……
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Information & Inspiration from our exhibitors
Our hosts: the Collaborative Family Law Group
useful links
June 29, 2010 by Suzy
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SOS Village resource website – share your story
Supporting Children through divorce: NSPCC resource list
One Space single parent support
Visitors Pack
June 28, 2010 by Suzy
Who do I speak to first? Download a guide to who can help you at each stage of starting over at SOS: Starting Over from divorce or redundancy? Who do I talk to first? Sept 2011
Our talk:
Speaker: Paul Cobley – Church’s Financial Planning
Financial Planning on Divorce
Paul will provide a brief introduction to Financial Planning, how it differs from Financial Advice and how it can often provide a solution to the needs of people going though divorce. It is often the emotional needs that need healing, with the financial needs being secondary. Fear, anger, worry, denial and of course loss. These are emotions that will resonate with many people who have suffered family breakdown. Paul will address in a short 25 minute talk how Financial Planning, and not Financial Advice, can deal with these issues.
Interactive talk:
Lisa White of Too clever for counselling but still need help?
“Logical Levels of Change”
Think of a situation in your life that you would like to handle better in the future. Or maybe there is a particular person who is a problem to you… this can include someone from your past who you no longer see, but who continues to bother you in some way.
After a brief explanation of how the “Logical Levels of Change” model works, I will guide you through an exercise which, potentially will transform the way you see and feel about the old problem situation or person.
Legal & Mediation:
Collaborative Family Law Group
Hosts of the Surrey/Hants SOS Road Show
Naim Qureshi Collaborative Family Law:
Family breakdown is one of the most stressful events many people go through in the course of their lives. We can advise and guide you through the process, helping you to concentrate on rebuilding your life and, particularly where children are involved, on maintaining family relationships without unnecessary damage and acrimony.
Divorce Mediation: Samantha Jago of RHW Solicitors
Samantha is an accredited family law specialist with both the Law Society and Resolution, and she is also a qualified family law mediator with rhw solicitors.
W.Davies: Wills/probate/trusts
A well regarded regional law firm based in Woking for over 100 years.
Lee Newell BardellsLLP: Redundancy & Unfair Dismissal
Are you facing problems at work – have you been unfairly treated by your employer (including your colleagues) or have you been unfairly dismissed and need to explore your options? Talk to an expert employment law practitioner and accredited mediator and find out what you can do to redress the balance or obtain a remedy to your complaint.
Lee advises clients on a wide range of employment matters including dismissal, redundancy, TUPE (when employment transfers to another employer) and discrimination. As well as being an accredited Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Mediator, Lee holds a Bar Council Licence with the Bar Council of England and Wales and has also represented clients in the ET and EAT.
Lee has the benefit of seeing both sides of the coin and as well as acting for individuals, he also acts for client organisations in both the public and private sector and during 20010/11 was retained to advise a joint department of the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
Financial:
Financial advice from Ian Taylor of Davenport Financial and Paul Cobley of Church’s Financial Planning.
Book a free financial powwow and speak in confidence to an experienced financial planner, who can help to demystify money-matters, and guide you towards a future where you are fully in control of your finances.
We can help you to prioritise your expenditure and to budget sensibly. We can also arrange longer meetings to help with more complex issues such as pension sharing, school fees and tax planning.
The service we offer which people often find the most useful, is helping you to create a long term financial plan; modelling the lifestyle you want against the assets and income you have, in order to create a sustainable structure and to help you to achieve long term financial security.
When you book your free powwow, we will provide you with the code for two free tickets to the SOS Road Show.
Jason Peace of Eurodebt Financial Services: Providing debt management solutions to people in financial distress
Eurodebt are a licenced and registered debt management service who have been in business over 16 years. Eurodebt are currently assisting over 2,500 individuals with serious debt problems. Our long term goal is to help you become debt free. Eurodebt will always act in your best interests and help put you back in control of your finances.
E-Accountants: Kim Teh FCA business tax & accounting advice
With many years of experience in the accounting industry, E-Accountants (one of the leading Accounting firms in Surrey, UK) offers accounting, taxation, payroll, and bookkeeping to customers throughout the local area. Founded in 1994, the firm is a member of ICAEW and has their mark of practice assurance. Our service is designed to be cost effective, helping clients to increase their revenue, reduce costs, increase their profits.
We offer valuable advice for people starting in business or starting over in business.
Wellbeing & Inspiration:
Marina Pearson assists individuals in overcoming relationship breakdowns and the heartache of divorce and breakups.
Working with my clients I see this every time. I see that they come with anger or hurt but by the end they are able to see the blessing and the gifts of the situation and how the person they once saw as their enemy they now see as their friend and supporter.
The truth is we usually don’t see how situations that we label bad can help us in that moment or even in the long run. How many times have you confronted a situation that in the moment it was happening you thought it was the worst thing that you could go through? Maybe years later you now realize that without that experience it would not make you the person you are today?
FREE RELATIONSHIP POWWOWS
Achievers Coaching: Annie Winfield is a Survivor Coach
Following a life changing event, sometimes we need help sorting our thoughts and direction. I will enable you to identify what you really want personally or professionally and then support and guide you while you achieve your goals. I will keep you focused and on track and will help you overcome any challenges and obstacles in your way.
Rhiannon Ford Divorce Coaching: practical & emotional support through divorce/separation
Rhianon Ford Divorce Coaching provides step by step support for people going through divorce or separation. A qualified solicitor, Rhiannon has valuable insight into the legal process, providing her with a clear understanding of the emotional difficulties facing her clients. She can also help on a practical level, translating legal jargon, completing legal forms and giving guidance to prepare for court and mediation.
Rianna Avis shows you how to deal with ‘difficult conversations’.
Riana works with people going through divorce and situations synonymous with ‘difficult conversations’ where discussions are often derailed by conflict and strong emotions. She teaches strategies and skills so you can better manage your emotions, stay more balanced, keep focused and feel more in control. Armed with these tools, it becomes easier to have these discussions, stay in discussion and work through the issues so you can get unstuck and move on.
Counselling:
Jennifer Hooper: Family Crisis & Wellbeing Therapist MBACP
Mind and mind-body therapies, for domestic violence, divorce and separation with a counsellor and specialist therapist-coach. Feel freer and much happier now with a human experience just for you with Jennifer of Jennifer Hooper Enterprise. Her Energy Organics business focusses on a holistic-psychology by means of organic food supplement and other products as a complete solution to Wellbeing.
Jenny Edwards: Sexual & relationship therapist
I have been working as a Sexual and Relationship Therapist with couples and individuals for more than 20 yrs. I write about issues that couples face and I also lecture and I am involved in teaching medical students about sexual issues. Couples seek me out when either one or both of them feels the relationship is no longer working for them or there is a crisis in their lives which they are not coping with. In 2009 (the last year for which figures are available), there were 113.949 divorces in the UK. I firmly believe that many of these could have been prevented if the help of a professional such as myself had been sought early on. When a relationship breakdown is inevitable then I offer a safe place for either on or both of the partners to share their distress and to help them to learn from their experience to give them a better chance of not repeating it in the future.
My main practice is at the Cardinal Clinic in Windsor but I also see people in Beckenham in Kent. I am an accredited Member of the College of Sexual and Relationship therapy, an accredited member of the British Association of Psychotherapy and Counselling, and a member of the British Infertility Counselling Association. I am also a qualified Family Mediator and a member of the Family Mediators Asociation.
Parenting:
Too Clever For Counselling and Still Need Help?: NLP based masterclass for mothers.
An NLP based personal development service, showing people how to improve the quality of their thinking, their behaviour and their lives. Private One to One sessions as well as the revolutionary ‘Masterclass for Mothers’, an intensive programme offering support and help for mothers wanting to raise the bar on their parenting, relationships and their lives.
BeStepWise: professional support for step-families
Be StepWise brings wisdom to step-parenting. We are a team of qualified, experienced, step-parenting professionals; here to enable you to realise your family’s potential and experience all the good things that step-family life can bring. Many step-families experience difficulties, frustrations and challenges. Be StepWise through one-to-one and group workshops help you make your family rewarding, fun and special.
Online diary & tools to reduce post divorce conflict
Wellbeing:
Cory Cook Professional Organiser: Organising solutions for big life changes
Navigating through a major life change – such as divorce, redundancy or a move – is incredibly stressful. Our physical surroundings can bring us down and represent our upheaval. Cory will guide you through an intelligent, hands-on process of organising your living or working space. Clear out the old and start afresh!
Specialties include: homes, home office, paper management, time management, de-cluttering, wardrobes.
Photography: Scott Collier Photography
Photographing families in their new forms. Positive images ideal for online networking, business profiles and just having fun.
The Mystic Housewife: Spiritual psychotherapy.
Traditional psychotherapy combined with spiritual psychic knowledge bringing an added level of insight. Offering a confidential, caring level of service of counselling and therapy, bringing you clarity, comfort and hope.
Magnus the Masseur: African Rhythms Massage combined with truthful conversation
“My name is Magnus Woyingi-Kuro Agugu, which means The Great Power of Gods Love.
My aim is to lay my healing hands on as many people as possible and to inspire and set people free to follow their spirits. I wish to heal people through touch, smiles, hugs, massage, dancing, words, laughter and using every medium available to get my message across.
I am an extraordinary British-born African healer, who combines African Rhythms Massage with
truthful conversation.
My treatments work on physical, psychological, cellular and soulular levels, thus impacting every area of a persons life.
A treatment will leave you nourished, nurtured, re-vitalised and back in touch with the joy of life, a peaceful heart and an optimistic outlook.
One Massage,
Many Possibilities
Business Opportunities:
Paul Way: Utility Warehouse - helping people save money on bills and creating an income for themselves
I help individuals create an income from helping themselves and others save money on household bills and general shopping. This can be part time or full time, with full training and support, to fit in with your lifestyle.
Charities:
The Surrey Law Centre is a registered charity employing qualified solicitors dedicated to providing specialist legal advice and representation to the community of Surrey who are either eligible for legal aid or unable to afford the services of a traditional ‘for profit’ solicitor in the County of Surrey.
South West Surrey Domestic Abuse Outreach Service: Support for people suffering from any type of domestic abuse
Providing support and services for those living with and/or fleeing from domestic violence. Helping survivors re-build their lives through support, advice and education. Services also extend to the children who have witnessed or suffered abuse themselves.
Health:
Farnham Fitness & Wellbeing Centre: Much more than just a gym
Welcome to Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing, an innovative approach to your health and fitness.
If you’ve belonged to a traditional health club before, you probably feel a bit underwhelmed by the general level of facilities and service once you’ve signed up.
But we’re not interested in just getting you to sign up and then ignoring you. Our aim is to improve your wellbeing for the long-term by helping you to actively take control of your health. And we do this by offering a combination of fitness facilities, health services and expert staff that you’ll find hard to beat.
Michelle Chand runs Chandananda Yoga in Guildford. She believes passionately in the transformative power
of yoga as a vehicle for self- development and transformation.
Her belief is that “…you don’t have to be fit, thin, young, flexible, vegetarian, celibate or particularly clean living to benefit from a yoga practice…”
Michelle endeavours to make yoga fun and accessible to everyone no matter what age, build or level of fitness. At the SOS show she will be giving informal talks on the possibilities that yoga could hold as a tool to help move through turbulence in life, to gain strength both physically and psychologically, and to become flexible not only in body, but in the ability to roll with the changes that life brings.
There will be opportunities to try simple yoga techniques including movement, breathwork and positive visualisation, or just to put your feet up in a nice calm space, and you are welcome to just pop along and join in, no special equipment or clothing required, just an open mind.
Michelle can be contacted via her website www.chandanandayoga.co.uk for details about classes, corporate work and individual tuition.
Eagle Radio
May 5, 2010 by Suzy
Statement from Paul Marcus the MD of Eagle Radio:-
`As Surrey and Hampshire`s local radio station, Eagle Radio is supportive of any new initiatives that make a real difference to our listeners. We support the starting over show as it is run with integrity, style and is genuinely relevant to people finding themselves in this situation’
