Building Capacity: IAF Oceania Conference Melbourne March 2012
The IAF is an international organisation with members from around the world spread across 5 geographic regions.
You can pick and chose from 25 different workshops of 2 or 3 hours duration led by facilitators from 7 different countries. You can join in the Global Facilitation Marathon which starts before the conference and finishes on the final day.
Plus there re 6 pre-conference workshops on offer (1 or 1.5 days). This is your opportunity for more in-depth learning from highly respected local and international facilitators.
Transformative Mediation: Core Principles and Practice
The Seminar will be conducted by the founding father of transformative mediation and co-author of the book "The Promise of Mediation: Responding to Conflict Through Empowerment and Recognition" and "The Promise of Mediation: The Transformative Approach to Conflict", which represents the ground literature work concerning transformative mediation, and honored guest speaker at The First International Congress of Transformative Mediation in Ljubljana, Joseph P. Folger.
Emerging dynamics in mediation—new thinking, new practices, new relationships.
The board of the National Mediation Conference invites you to participate in Australia's premier conference on dispute resolution. The 11th National Mediation Conference will be held from 10 to 13 September 2012 at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, New South Wales.
The working theme of the conference is: Emerging dynamics in mediation—new thinking, new practices, new relationships. The proposed conference program will be carried across four streams: culture, community, commerce and competence; with a broad range of topics including, but not limited to:
Family dispute resolution
Commercial and legal
Aged and special needs
Sport and recreation
Industrial and workplace
Cultural diversity
The environment
Indigenous and community mediation
Accreditation and training.
The conference aims to present a program which is innovative, stimulating, thought-provoking and entertaining by offering networking and learning opportunities to new and experienced mediators and dispute managers.
