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Following the great success of our first fully residential conference at Northampton in September 2023, your Conference Committee is keen to build on the opportunities it provided for strengthening the FMA Community. We also want to ensure that conferences are accessible to as many members as possible over a two-three year period, and to shift the main conference away from the busy conference and training season in September/ October.
As we explained in our email of 1 February, our 2024 conference will be a one-day on-line conference, incorporating a short AGM, on Wednesday 25 September. We would love to see as many of you as possible, so please save the date. An advantage of an on-line conference, aside from accessibility, is that it offers the opportunity to incorporate speakers from further afield, both live and pre-recorded. On this one occasion, the price for members is being subsidised by FMA so that the price should not be off-putting for anyone.
Our theme is “exploring a gender agenda,” and it is the start of a conversation around diversity, inclusivity, community and sustainability that will take place across different platforms and training events, culminating in our 2025 conference, residential in-person, on 14-15 May 2025.
The John Cornwell presentation will be delivered by Nurit Zubery, Family Dispute Provider and Academic in New Zealand, on how different gender behaviours present in mediation. There will also be presentations and on-line workshops on gender and abuse, an introduction to conversations about transgender participants in mediation, and on transgender issues and young people.
The day will last from 9.45 – 4.30, with breaks and opportunities for work in groups, and plenty of additional material to watch in advance of or following the conference.
We look forward to seeing you there!
FMA Conferences
FMA’s annual conference has always been popular (with non-members too); usually a 2-day event in September, either in Central London or around the regions. Attendees comment on the quality of the training/speakers and the chance to chat with other mediators and family professionals.
When the Covid pandemic came, FMA was quick to react. Our conference was moved online, meaning that members missed none of these benefits. We have also worked with hybrid facilities, we returned to a full in person September 2023. We will be doing a 1-day online annual conference in 2024.
Your feedback continues to shape how and where we deliver our headline conferences and events. The Conference Committee is working on next year’s offerings, which we believe has something for everyone. Watch this space…
FMA AGM
It is each member’s responsibility to attend this important meeting. It is not an extensive time commitment, and we try and make it more interesting with a guest speaker or additional training. But there is a danger that, if everyone assumes someone else will attend, vital business of the FMA may not be conducted. So please do put the date in your diary and we look forward to catching up with you then.
FMA operates as a company and, like any company, we need an AGM. We deal with the annual reports and financial statements and elect new board members to continue the good work. If you would be interested in joining the board (or serving on one of the committees without election to the board) you can take that forward here.
