ANNUAL CONFERENCE – IMAGINE…..

Our online conference in September – “A Gender Agenda” – was fantastically well attended and received. We will be continuing our theme of Embracing Diversity In Mediation throughout the next six months, culminating in the 2025 conference.

Following the great success of our first fully residential conference at Northampton in September 2023, we now return to the in-person two-day format to build on the opportunities it provides for strengthening the FMA Community. We have also shifted the main conference away from the busy conference and training season in September/ October.

Over these two days, we invite you to Imagine the Expanding Diversity of Humanity, Human Relationships, and of Family Mediation Practice. We encourage you to use your imaginations both to understand better the challenges faced by the families and individuals we serve, and to develop the offering we provide to those families.

Day One – “All You Need Is…” – is our day for awareness, through expert presentations and lively plenary discussion. You’ll be invited to join an innovative finance workshop –“Can’t Buy Me Love.”

Day Two – “We Can Work It Out” – is our day for reflecting on practice and developing together, through experiential discussion and specialised workshops. The workshop topics will, as always, reflect different aspects of re-accreditation and portfolio CPD.

The two days of learning will be punctuated by a Hard Day’s Night of fun, including dinner, a costumed cabaret, and either or both a silent disco or live band.

IMAGINE ALSO….

A series of free online workshops to continue the conversations we begun at the 2024 online conference – there will be four workshops between February and June on aspects of diversity:

• A conversation about gender perspectives with Nurit Zubery
• A conversation about trans lived experience with Alex Drummond
• A conversation about Diversity of Mediation Practice and the Integrated Approach with Neil Robinson and Philippa Johnson
• A conversation about children in mediation with Dr Angharad Rudkin

More information and registration: A Series Of Free Online Conversations – The Family Mediators Association

Prices for the conference have been held from 2023, and our Early Bird rate runs until 28.02.2025. You’ll also see below that if you are still working towards accreditation there is a much lower set of fees; we really welcome newer mediators and YFMA members to join us. As ever, there is a substantial reduction for FMA members, so now is the time to join FMA if you aren’t already with us!

The Adelphi Hotel has an extraordinary history and is an ideal location to meet together in the North West. We think you’ll love it as a conference venue! We look forward to seeing you there!