What you would be delivering

A ten-week divorce recovery workshop, built on the method Dr. Bruce Fisher created in 1975 and refined over fifty years. Same nineteen Rebuilding Blocks as the seminar, same sequence — delivered to a small group instead of a large one.

That difference changes the work more than it sounds. In a room of forty, people can sit at the back and take it in. In a small group there is nowhere to hide, and nobody gets to be anonymous. Students go deeper, they go faster, and they pay more for it.

It also asks more of you. A large seminar rewards a good presenter. A small workshop rewards a facilitator who can read a room of eight people, notice who has gone quiet, and know what to do about it.

The format

• Ten weekly sessions across ten weeks
• Small group — materially fewer students than a seminar
• Delivered in person or online
• Higher fee per student than the seminar format
• One-to-one coaching available to students who want more support

What the training includes

Everything is included at this tier. Nothing is sold separately.

The time with Nick is the part to weigh

Nick Meima has spent twenty years seeing clients in private practice and has delivered more of these programs than anyone in the organisation. He also holds formal training in group facilitation, which most clinicians do not.

You can learn the curriculum from a manual. You cannot learn what to do when week three goes sideways from a manual.

That is what the session with Nick is for. Bring the questions the materials will not answer.

Seminar or workshop?

Two formats, two licences, two different kinds of practice. Some facilitators run both.

See the seminar facilitator path →

Who you would be serving

You do not have to guess. We publish adjustment data from more than five thousand people entering divorce recovery.

Fisher Divorce Adjustment Scale assessments, 2023–2026. See the Divorce Recovery Index.

This is not a young-couples market. Your students will mostly be people in long marriages that ended without their choosing, still in the middle of the process.

Does the program work?

We measure it, and we publish the result including its limits.

Among students with a verified before-and-after assessment, adjustment improved by a median of 84 points on the 500-point Fisher scale over roughly twelve weeks. People who took the same assessment twice without doing a program improved by 14 points — and a third of them scored lower than they had the first time.

The typical student moved from the 49th percentile to the 84th.

That matters commercially as well as clinically. You will be delivering something with published outcome data behind it, in a market where almost nobody else has any. Full figures and limitations are on the evidence.

Territory

Certified facilitators receive exclusive rights to deliver the workshop in their area. You become the divorce recovery program for that region — the one therapists refer to, the one attorneys mention, the one people hear about from a friend.

How areas are sized

By population, not by map. An area has to contain enough divorcing people to fill your classes without you competing against a neighbouring facilitator for the same students.

That means the geography varies enormously. New York City could support a couple of dozen facilitators without any of them running short of students. Fort Collins, Colorado supports one. Both are fair territories, because both give the facilitator the same thing: a market that is theirs.

The point is not how many square miles you get. It is that you are the only one.

In practice the boundary gets drawn in conversation. You tell us where you live and work, and we look at what population that covers, what is already allocated nearby, and what would give you a viable practice. Some areas are already taken. Confirming yours is available is part of the application conversation.

Who we accept

Our free training is open to anyone. Facilitator licensing is not.

You will be the face of this program in your community, and a poorly run class damages the method's reputation as well as your own. The workshop format is the more demanding of the two, so we look closely at group experience as well as credentials. At minimum we look for:

• An ICF-accredited coaching credential, or
• Certified Divorce Coach certification

Licensed mental health professionals are strongly encouraged to apply.