Aims, Mission Statement and Beliefs

to help families in dispute find and make use of high quality family mediation services;
to provide a home, a community and a voice for professional family mediators from all backgrounds, working within an interdisciplinary and flexible model of family mediation;
to support and educate mediators, especially our members, in their provision of professional and sensitive assistance to families in dispute, ensuring that children’s voices are heard;
to lead the family mediation profession nationally.

to gain recognition for family mediation as a distinct and independent profession;
to promote family mediation as the first step in resolving family disputes;
to implement the regulation of the family mediation profession and to promote best practice;
to engage our members in an active and supportive community of family mediators.

to help people in England and Wales to find FMA mediators who work to recognised standards;
to educate the public and other professionals about mediation, and to promote the values and practice of mediation;
to provide consultancy and affordable training to family mediators, our fellow family justice and other professionals;
to continue to develop a robust and flexible interdisciplinary model of family mediation that adapts to meet the needs of families in dispute;
to help family mediators provide sensitive and professional assistance to families in dispute;
to continue to develop standards for and to support our members in their provision of professional family mediation services.

everyone should be given the best opportunity possible to find out about resolving their immediate and extended family disputes in a co-operative way;
mediators must be able to provide a variety of services to meet ever more complex and entrenched family legal disputes, and must have a commitment to ensuring that the voice of the child is heard;
mediation often works best in partnership with lawyers and other professionals, especially in difficult cases;
mediation is a creative process, involving not only legal knowledge and expertise but also a commitment to co-operation and collaboration;
mediation gives priority to inclusivity and respecting difference, and a family mediation organisation should do the same;
family and other forms of mediation are part of a growing worldwide movement to resolve conflicts in a co-operative way.