Adele D'Ari

Adele started a small business as a clinical psychologist 30 years ago in Arlington, Virginia after clinical training in Boston and Burlington, Vermont. Her initial professional training as a systems therapist fit perfectly with her current work as a psychologist/coach/ mediator in the field of collaborative divorce. She is an experienced trainer in the area of family systems and collaborative divorce. Her training in alternative dispute resolution and social justice has provided her with expertise and skills to work with a wide range of problems that face our world today.
Joining the Collaborative Divorce community was like a start-up business as she worked together alongside attorneys and financial professionals to create a vision, then a product and to market collaborative divorce. She was one of the founding members of the Collaborative Practice Training Institute, President of the Virginia Collaborative Professional Organization, Co-President of the Collaborative Practice of Northern Virginia, and founding member of the Collaborative Practice Center of Washington DC. This work has become her passion.
Besides learning from living life, her educational background includes a; BA from the University of Vermont, EdM from Temple University, and EdD from Northeastern University.
She recently moved to Boulder to be closer to family and to spend more time outdoors. Growing up in Europe and the Middle East was the beginning of her life-long interest in travel.
Her work in the political arena started in 2017 when she helped to create a grassroots political organization called 31st Street. She is still part of the leadership and it grown to 1500 members and raised 3.5 million dollars in 2020.

My advice to students...

• First know who you are and be who you are as you move through life.
• Do what you love. It will guide you on a successful path.
• Education provides knowledge and skills but life provides you the experience to apply it and make it your own.
• Be flexible and push yourself to adapt to a totally new way of thinking.
• Try new experiences and see what fits.
• Be open to new challenges, be a problem solver, be comfortable with uncertainty, try new things, and ask for help.
• Take risks