Video Resources
Featured videos for practitioners.
The following list of videos are linked for your convenience to the entire archive of videos we at Heartland Family Mediators recommend for your viewing. The videos have been produced by our friends at UpToParents.org and all are available on YouTube. The videos have been listed generally in order of highest interest to parents to lowest as determined by total views. Many of the videos will include a brief synopsis, others will not as we believe their title speaks for itself.
Complete Video Archive
There are more than 25 videos linked to the Heartland Family Mediators site. All of them are available to you for viewing courtesy of UpToParents.org. You are free to refer the videos to any parents either at UpToParents.org or by using the links on this site.
A Motion in Opposition to A Response in Reply
Attorney’s Influence on Mediation Success
3 Thoughts That Lead To Failure
3 Thoughts That Lead To Failure This video explores what parents can give up on in divorce when as parents they would never give up.
The Relationship Wheel
Grandparents Can Help
Na, Na, Na, Boo, Boo
Summarizes the unfortunate and petty things parents say and do which keeps them from making progress.
Who do These Judges Think They Are?
3 Commonly Effective Judicial Decisions
Rely On Your Legal Rights – Or Should You?
Rely On Your Legal Rights - Or Should You? Explores how you have a right to destroy any hope of having a normal family relationship in the future or... get what it is that you want.
Beware of Custody Evaluations
Some Common Effects of Unnecessary Family Litigation
Some Common Effects of Unnecessary Family Litigation – Addresses how an opportunity to focus on the needs of your family is at best impeded and at worst destroyed by the nature of litigated divorce
Dangerous Subjectivity In Divorce
Winning By Being A Friend To The Relationship
Constructive Separations Using NoDivorceToday.org
The Humane Separation
America’s Favorite Form of Child Abuse
America’s Favorite Form of Child Abuse Addresses the serious damage inflicted on children and relationships with others when parents run down the co-parent.
12 Thoughts of Children in Conflict
Finish Your Grieving
A Daughter Speaks Out
8 Hidden Keys No One Has Told You About
Family Professionals Highest Responsibility
Good outcomes for the people involved is the heart of the matter. Period!
Bonnie and Ross
This video shows two parents post-divorce offering their perspectives on how a non-litigated method has led to peace for them in their lives and the lives of their child. Particular heartfelt observations by both parents will offer to the most fearful of parents that...
What exactly is Joint Legal Custody?
This video is helpful to couples seeking to understand this critical opportunity to co-parent. The explanation is of a general legal nature and it describes the relationship. It is very helpful to couples going through a divorce as it gives them knowledge which helps...
Divorce and the very young child
Summarizes the potential impact of divorce on the most defenseless and fragile of children.
Divorce and Older Children
Summarizes the potential impact of divorce on older children who frequently are seen to be “through that”. Maybe so, maybe not.
9 Myths that fool almost everyone
This video explores 9 misconceptions virtually all couples have regarding the divorce process. For the most part, if these misconceptions are acted upon as being true, extreme damage can be inflicted on the children and the parents themselves. These misconceptions are...
3 Sisters Invisible Pain
Direct and frank comments regarding the perceptions of three sisters who experienced the pain of divorce and how arrangements post-divorce added pain.
The Child Safety Zone
This video explains the significance of allowing children a safety zone where they will not be exposed to destructive and damaging negative parental communications/behavior.
The Person the Child Will Blame
Explains the complex and challenging feelings/thoughts of children as they process their imagined roles in family conflict and their belief that they are responsible for their parent’s problems.
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