Poidah, if it were true that doing a silly course that you don't necessarily need would get you access to your kids faster, I'd probably recommend it. But I don't see any way it would have helped in my case. My ex was not interested in hearing that I was "reformed". She wanted me out of her life and out of our kids' lives. She even said so in a Family Report. She said if she had it her way, our kids would have nothing to do with me until they were old enough to make their own decision to see me. In the real world, that's probably teenage years or adulthood. They're 18 months and 4 years old currently. So you can see what a self-centred piece of work I'm dealing with here. In my case, family court was the only way to take the power out of her hands (at least a little bit), and I'm finally starting to make headway 2 years later. I had to go through supervision for 9 months, and my ability to work full time suffered, but I'm finally getting to a point where I have a normal relationship with my children again. I still want 50/50 and I know realistically that's a long way off (both in their ages, and the ability of my ex and I to communicate and put the children's interests first). But that's where I'd like to get to, eventually.