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Join Carolyn Jacobs, founder of Keep Slowing, for a small-group, IN-PERSON workshop offering structured support in considering your challenges, fears, and possibilities connected to separation and divorce. We will break overwhelming questions into more manageable pieces, give shape to emerging possibilities, and identify strategies for forward movement.
Saturday, June 27, 2026
Workshop: 10:00 am–1:00 pm
Boxed Lunch Provided – stay to chat or take to go: 1:00–1:30 pm
In-Person in Venice, California
Limited to 10 participants
Fee: $250
Schedule
9:45–10:00 am: Check-In
Please arrive at 9:45 to check in and settle into our space.
10:00–10:15 am: Welcome and Introductions
We will begin with an orientation to the workshop and a short introduction exercise.
10:15–11:30 am, Part One: Through Challenge
In the first segment, you will be supported in identifying one meaningful challenge or fear connected to divorce. We will explore how to break related overwhelming questions and concerns into more manageable pieces. The segment will conclude with strategies for forward movement.
11:30–11:45 am: Snack and Reset Break
11:45 am–1:00 pm, Part Two: Toward Opportunity
In the second segment, you will consider a meaningful opportunity divorce might create. We will explore emerging possibilities and ways to give them shape. We will complete the segment with strategies for forward movement.
1:00–1:30 pm: Boxed Lunch (stay to chat or take to go)
The structured workshop will conclude at 1:00 pm. Participants are welcome to stay and enjoy a boxed lunch together until 1:30 pm, or take their lunch to go.
Better Machines, Better People, Better Connection?: A Conversation with Dr. Vivienne Ming
60 Minutes, via Zoom, Wednesday, September 16, 2026: 1 pm PT / 3 pm CT / 4 pm ET
On September 16, Carolyn Jacobs, founder of Keep Slowing, LLC, will host brilliant and wry neuroscientist, inventor, and author Dr. Vivienne Ming for a session of Conversations that Contribute, a series aimed at expansive dialogue and actionable ideas for how adults can support young people in communication and conflict.
This session of CTC will explore the unique human capacities for perspective-taking, curiosity, and intellectual humility that Dr. Ming identifies as the linchpin of a human-AI hybrid intelligence. These very same qualities are also central to Keep Slowing’s focus on human connection, constructive dialogue, and collaborative forms of dispute resolution. We will consider the shared meaning across these ideas for parents, educators, and other adults with the opportunity to help young people build the human capacities that support better machines, better people, and better connection.
About Dr. Ming
Dr. Vivienne Ming explores maximizing human capacity as a theoretical neuroscientist, delusional inventor, and demented author, most recently of Robot-Proof: When Machines Have All The Answers, Build Better People. She co-founded Possibility Science, applying machine learning and hybrid intelligence to science and innovation itself. She also founded The Human Trust, an independent nonprofit data trust developing a benchmark for the impact of AI on human development. Dr. Ming sits on numerous boards, including neurotech startup Optoceutics, UC Berkeley’s Neurotech Collider Lab, UC San Diego’s Cognitive Science Department, and the Kennedy Human Rights Center. She is an honorary professor at University College London’s Global Business School for Health.
Registration is $10 per attendee, and Ally in Divorce will donate 100% of the proceeds to Kids Managing Conflict (KMC). Carolyn Jacobs serves on KMC’s Board of Directors.
This program is for:
• Parents
• ADR Professionals
• Educators
• Mental Health Professionals
• Parenting Professionals
• Youth Program Staff
• Anyone hoping to support children in building relational skills
Emerging Adults, Conflict, and Connection: A Conversation with Dr. Niobe Way
60 Minutes, via Zoom, Tuesday, June 23: 1 pm PT / 3 pm CT / 4 pm ET
On June 23, Carolyn Jacobs, founder of Keep Slowing, LLC, will host renowned developmental psychologist, researcher, and author Dr. Niobe Way for the June session of Conversations that Contribute, a series that aims at expansive dialogue and actionable ideas for how adults can support young people in communication and conflict.
As we enter summer, parents, educators, employers, and other adults connected to emerging adults are drawn into a meaningful relational transition that can bring both challenge and opportunity. Young adults may be leaving home, returning from post-high-school programs and education, or otherwise shifting in their relationship to family life and independence. Dr. Niobe Way, a distinguished professor who has spent nearly 40 years studying adolescent development and human connection, will join me for a conversation exploring how we might understand emerging adults’ developing independence and the communication capacities that support connection and productive conflict.
About Dr. Way
Dr. Niobe Way is a leading developmental psychologist whose pioneering research on adolescent social and emotional development reveals how cultural ideologies shape human connection in the U.S. and China. Through initiatives like the Project for the Advancement of our Common Humanity (PACH), the Listening with Curiosity Project, and the Science of Human Connection Lab, she works to counter the “crisis of connection” by cultivating relational intelligence in schools and communities. An award-winning author and influential public scholar, her work has transformed understandings of boys’ friendships, inspired major media, and informed national psychology guidelines.
Registration is $10 per attendee, and Keep Slowing will donate 100% of the proceeds to ODC, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that nurtures artists, youth, and the Bay Area creative community.
This program is for:
• Parents
• ADR Professionals
• Educators
• Mental Health Professionals
• Parenting Professionals
• Youth Program Staff
• Anyone hoping to support children in building relational skills
Fostering Civil Discourse Among Youth: A Conversation with Dr. Michael Saini
60 Minutes, On Zoom, Wednesday, April 15: 1 pm PT / 3 pm CT / 4 pm ET
On April 15, Carolyn Jacobs, founder of Ally in Divorce, will host a virtual benefit to support Kids Managing Conflict, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that strengthens and funds peer mediation programs in K–12 schools. Carolyn will sit down with distinguished scholar, educator, and family law practitioner Dr. Michael Saini for a conversation on the importance of fostering civil discourse concepts and skills among youth.
Children and youth are coming of age in a world marked by polarization, rapid judgment, and shrinking spaces for thoughtful disagreement. Teaching civil discourse is no longer just about manners or classroom rules. It is about helping young people learn how to express values, listen with curiosity, disagree without harm, and remain in relationship across differences. This conversation explores how children and youth learn the norms of disagreement through families, schools, peers, institutions, and digital spaces. It examines the tension between speaking up and staying open, and between accountability and dialogue.
About Dr. Saini
Michael Saini, Ph.D., MSW, RSW is a Full Professor and holds the endowed Factor-Inwentash Chair in Law and Social Work at the University of Toronto’s Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work. He is Co-Director of the Combined J.D./M.S.W. Program with the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. Dr. Saini has authored over 200 publications, including peer-reviewed articles, books, and government reports, and regularly presents internationally on family law, separation and divorce, child protection, parenting plan decision-making, and children’s rights. He is the Past-President of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC), President of Family Mediation Canada, and an Associate Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers.
Registration is $10 per attendee, and Ally in Divorce will donate 100% of the proceeds to Kids Managing Conflict (KMC). Carolyn Jacobs serves on KMC’s Board of Directors.
This program is for:
• Parents
• ADR Professionals
• Educators
• Mental Health Professionals
• Parenting Professionals
• Youth Program Staff
• Anyone hoping to support children in building relational skills
Supporting Youth in Expressing Sexuality & Gender: A Conversation with PJ Brescia
60 Minutes, On Zoom, Wednesday, February 18: 1 pm PT / 3 pm CT / 4 pm ET
On February 18, Carolyn Jacobs, founder of Ally in Divorce, will host a virtual benefit to support Kids Managing Conflict, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that strengthens and funds peer mediation programs in K–12 schools. Carolyn will sit down with PJ Brescia (they/them), an Out100 2025 honoree and the founder of BabyGay™, a media platform and 501(c)(3) nonprofit amplifying queer voices through storytelling, advocacy, and togetherness. PJ hosts The BabyGay™ Podcast, which celebrates coming out stories, humanizes the queer experience, highlights queer history, and offers resources for living authentically. They also serve as President of the LA Queer Coalition, uniting community leaders to uplift and advance LGBTQIA+ rights, and as a Board Member of the NLGJA Los Angeles Chapter, supporting LGBTQIA+ journalists.
This conversation considers how young people navigate sharing about their sexuality and gender and how adults can support them thoughtfully when meaning, safety, and understanding are still taking shape. Drawing on PJ Brescia’s work in listening to and honoring coming-out stories, this conversation will explore the internal and external dynamics young people contend with as they decide whether, when, and how to share. We will consider how support-minded adults can listen and respond in ways that foster safety, agency, and trust.
Registration is $10 per attendee, and Ally in Divorce will donate 100% of the proceeds to Kids Managing Conflict (KMC). Carolyn Jacobs serves on KMC’s Board of Directors.
This program is for:
• Parents
• ADR Professionals
• Educators
• Mental Health Professionals
• Parenting Professionals
• Youth Program Staff
• Anyone hoping to support children in building relational skills
Seeing Conflict Through a Child’s Lens: A Conversation with Dr. Marygrace Berberian
60 Minutes, On Zoom, Wednesday, December 3, 2025
12 pm PT / 2 pm CT / 3 pm ET
Join a conversation that contributes! On Wednesday, December 3, Carolyn Jacobs, founder of Ally in Divorce, will host a virtual benefit to support Kids Managing Conflict, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that strengthens and funds peer mediation programs in K–12 schools. Carolyn will sit down with Dr. Marygrace Berberian, Director of the Graduate Art Therapy Program at New York University, and a board-certified art therapist and clinical social worker with 30 years of experience in community-based mental health for children and families.
This conversation considers how children understand, express, and navigate interpersonal conflict. We’ll aim to offer ideas for parents, educators, and other supporting adults to better recognize and encourage productive conflict communication for children with their peers.
Drawing on Dr. Berberian’s extensive work with families and schools, we will explore children's expressions, obstacles, and opportunities in peer interpersonal conflict. We’ll also discuss what adults might overlook in these situations and how they can best support children in expressing and resolving conflict in ways that engage empathy and build skills for a lifetime of difficult conversations.
Registration is $10 per attendee, and Ally in Divorce will donate 100% of the proceeds to Kids Managing Conflict. Carolyn Jacobs serves on KMC’s Board of Directors.
This program is for:
• Parents
• ADR Professionals
• Educators
• Mental Health Professionals
• Parenting Professionals
• Youth Program Staff
• Anyone hoping to support children in building relational skills
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