As promised, we will be continuing our theme of Embracing Diversity In Mediation throughout the next few months, culminating in the 2025 conference. This Spring provides you with the opportunity to attend up to four free 90 minute online workshops which develop the themes from last year’s conference with our very well-received speakers, taking forward the dialogues around diversity that were begun then and will continue into this year’s conference in June. They offer you and the speakers a better chance to engage with each other in dialogue.
Our Guests in Conversation include:
A Conversation with Nurit Zubery
Tuesday 4 March 2025 from 7pm to 8.30pm
Nurit gave the John Cornwell lecture on in September 2024. She will expand on the themes around gender perspectives in mediation and how better to engage with fathers.
Register using the link below:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ocZpLkPNT4SCDV4zga8fuQ
Nurit Zubery
Nurit is a mediator and researcher and an accredited Family Dispute Resolution Provider based in Auckland New Zealand. She completed a Master of Laws at the Auckland University Law School, specialising in mediation, with her Master’s thesis based on a qualitative research project examining how fathers experience family mediation. The study equipped her with a deep understanding of the dynamics of family mediation and how to best address the needs of both mothers and fathers, as well as protect the well-being of children. Nurit regularly presents on this topic to various organisations worldwide.
A Conversation with Alex Drummond
Friday 28 March 2025 from 12pm to 1.30pm
Alex spoke with us last September about the lived experience of trans people and families and welcomes the opportunity to develop the conversation further.
Register using the link below:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/gyrQcuWiQs-069lu-zYzpg
Alex Drummond
Alex Drummond is a mental health professional with clinical and research interests in gender identity and conditions of neurodivergence. In this workshop she will be drawing on both clinical and personal experiences of being transgender (and ADHD) and what that means for individuals and families. In recent months trans identities have become something of a political football, and there is much mis-information and media rhetoric that adversely impacts families and individuals on this sensitive subject. This is another chance to hear from a grounded, balanced and personal lived experience perspective and the aim is to demystify the topic. Importantly - and highly relevant to professionals working in the
field of marital/family breakdown - Alex will also briefly discuss the intersection of autistic and ADHD identities (which occur in much higher prevalence in the trans community) offering some clues that can
give important insight when working with trans families
A Conversation with Neil Robinson and Philippa Johnson
Tuesday 8 April 2025 from 11.30am to 1pm
A Conversation with Neil Robinson and Philippa Johnson, moderated by Claire Webb
Diversity of Mediation Practice and the Integrated Approach – where has it got to? Why is it important? Is it worth going on a course?
Register using the link below:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/FuVW550tRViQFpWBAXB4zQ
Neil Robinson
Neil Robinson is a mediator, trainer and PPC working with Family Mediation Centre Staffordshire and others. He sits as a Mental Health Tribunal Judge and is a Visiting Professor at The University of Staffordshire. Neil has an abiding interest in the interrelationship between mediation, peacebuilding, song and sustainability. Having published a series of 17 “Conversation Pieces” with Family Law in 2019-2022, to encourage deeper thinking and dialogue, he is now enjoying developing and training on the Integrated Approach with Philippa. Though “semi-retired,” he is delighted to be still part of the mediation and FMA community.
Philippa Johnson
Philippa Johnson is a family mediator and law reporter. Having trained as a barrister, after studying history at Oxford University, she worked in legal publishing for many years and still provides various clients with legal updates, identifying and explaining recent developments in family case law. Her working life now primarily involves working directly with families and with family mediators. In 2012 she co-founded Turner & Johnson Mediation with Sheila Turner, which is a co-mediation service based in London with a strong focus on child-inclusive mediation. She is a member of the FMA Board and former Chair of FMA (currently Secretary). She trains new mediators for FMA on the Foundation course, is a PPC and a CIM mediator. She was one of two editorial consultants for the family mediation ‘bible’ Lisa Parkinson’s Family Mediation (4th edition) and also acted as the editorial consultant on Lisa’s more recent book on child-inclusive mediation, Conversations with Young People in Family Mediation.
A Conversation with Dr Angharad Rudkin and others
Tuesday 13 May 2025 from 11.30am to 1pm
A Conversation with Dr Angharad Rudkin and others – Angharad spoke to us last September about how children experience family separation, with a focus on gender, and welcomes the opportunity to have a broader conversation about the way in which children experience family separation.
Register using the link below:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/H_Tr7Q7DSZ-2LYu3E_jZkA
Dr Angharad Rudkin
Dr Angharad Rudkin is a Clinical Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. Angharad designed and facilitates the popular What About Henry? course for family law professionals, now in its 6th season. She has co-authored parenting books and children’s books and is the Consultant Editor for the divorce guide ““101 questions answered about separating with children” (Bath Publishing; 2020). With children’s author Ruth Fitzgerald, Angharad wrote “The Split Survival Kit” (Wren & Rook 2022), a book for children going through parental separation. Angharad is an Agony Aunt for the Metro relationship column and regularly appears on TV and radio as an expert on child and family issues, including divorce.
Claire Webb
Claire Webb has worked in family law since 1990. In 2007 she co-founded Mediation Now, which went on to secure funding from the DWP Innovation Fund on a number of occasions for the delivery of pioneering projects aimed at helping separated parents work together for the benefit of their children. Claire is also a Collaborative Lawyer, a specialist in Child Inclusive Mediation (CIM), and a trained civil mediator; she offers both an integrated approach to family mediation and co-mediation. She is a qualified arbitrator in children and finances cases and a qualified parenting coordinator. She is a mentor to other mediators as their PPC and is a 1-2-1 peer mentor for Resolution. Claire sat as the mediator member of the Family Justice Council until 2024 and is a member of the Local Family Justice Board. Claire is now also a member of the FMA Board. Claire also sits on the Family Mediation Council’s training panel and accreditation panel and is a member of the FMSB working group promoting mediation. She also sits on the Resolution Children’s Panel. Currently, Claire is working closely with four local authorities to pilot when and how mediation works best for kinship carers and works with Hampshire County Council to deliver their strengthening parental relationship through mediation.
