Trainer: Beverley Sayers

Become a PPC: Family Mediators Association Training in London

Elevate your professional practice with the Family Mediators Association’s (FMA) Professional Practice Consultant (PPC) Foundation Training Course, taking place in person on 12th & 13th October 2026 in London.

Designed for experienced family mediators, this comprehensive training equips you to take on the pivotal role of PPC, supporting and supervising fellow mediators in their development and practice.

Delivered by Beverley Sayers, an experienced mediator and PPC with a passion for supervision, this two-day course delivers essential skills, insights, and tools to confidently step into the PPC role.

This two-day Intensive Training course combines lectures, role plays, case discussions, and assessments and is designed to challenge and stimulate your thinking. You will gain a thorough understanding of the skills and knowledge required to meet the FMC’s current standards. Successfully meting all the requirements of the course, including the post course work leads to certification as a Professional Practice Consultant (PPC).

This course will equip you with the knowledge and skills to excel as a PPC, covering key areas such as:

•   Develop an understanding of Supervision Theory and Practice

•   The role and responsibilities of the PPC, both in relation to general practice and in relation to accreditation, reaccreditation, and complaints

•   The PPC’s role in sharing knowledge: Learn how to effectively disseminate information to mediators.

•   Balancing supporting aspects of the role with the need to maintain professional standards and public protection

•   Resources and support for undertaking the role

•   Approaches and practicalities for professional practice consultancy

•   Contracting and insurance

•   Implications of the FMC Code of Practice, professional competence standards, and complaints procedure in relation to the PPC role

•   Understanding and applying the FMC PPC Code of Practice and guidance

•   Developing mediator competence: Support mediators in honing their skills and growing their professional confidence.

•   Monitoring practice standards: Ensure mediators maintain high professional standards in their work.

•   Encouraging best practices: Identify, support, and promote excellence within the family mediation field.

•   Complaints: Understand and help guide and support mediators to navigate complaints effectively.

•   Potential conflicts within the PPC role and matters that the PPC cannot take responsibility for

•   Audit compliance and LAA requirements: Stay up to date with essential regulations and ensure mediators meet audit and funding requirements.

•   Ongoing professional requirements as a PPC.

•   Shaping the future of the profession: Play a vital role in enhancing the growth and development of family mediation.

The FMC Manual – Professional Standards and Self-Regulatory Framework August 2025 v1.6 describes in Part 4 the ‘Common requirements for Professional Practice Consultancy’. These require as a minimum that course participants who are potential PPCs:

•   hold FMCA status

•   have been practising continuously as a family mediator for at least three years

•   have current membership of an FMC MO

•   are supported by their own PPC in training as a PPC (a copy of their letter of support must be emailed to info@thefma.co.uk prior to the start of the course)

Potential PPC’s must therefore confirm in their application for the PPC Foundation course that they meet these FMC requirements. You will be required to submit documentary evidence of meeting these requirements before you can be confirmed as having successfully completed the PPC Foundation Course.