Event Type : Conferences

Practicing Alone and Practicing Together: Let’s Do More in 2024

As mediators, we are often swimming solo, pitching our process in a vacuum, seemingly alone. However, there is a world of activity in the matrimonial mediation space – in our neighborhoods, in NYS, throughout the US, and globally. When alone, we may find ourselves reinventing the wheel. When in dialogue with others doing this work, the mediation movement becomes truly powerful and our practices flourish.

Interactive Sessions for the Fall Symposium will include:
-Innovation in Mediation: A Peek Across the Pond and Into the Future
-Building Your Team
-Everyone Needs a Prenup!
-To Draft or Not to Draft: That is the Question

After more than a decade, NAFCM, in partnership with The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution and in collaboration with ACR, will host a one day conference on Tuesday, October 3rd, with a reception the evening of October 2nd.

This gathering will occur on the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Peace and Conflict Resolution in Arlington, Virginia. For now, please hold the date. More information will be following after the new year.

Please join us for the 2023 Virginia Mediation Network Fall Conference: Come Grow With Us, which will be in-person on Oct. 6-7 at the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, GMU Arlington Campus, and virtual from Oct. 9-13.  We are offering a diverse and exciting array of presentations, including a Keynote from  Jacqueline N. Font-Guzmán, co-author with Bernard S. Mayer, of The Neutrality Trap: Disrupting and Connecting for Social Change. 

Come and get your CMEs for recertification and enjoy networking with your peers!

An exploration of love, compassion, mercy, freedom and justice as pathways to peace.

The Symposium will be a day for peacemakers to explore connections between spirituality and peacemaking. Peacemakers from the Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim faiths, who are working as mediators, scholars, ministers, and healers, will speak about their faith-based approach to peacemaking and engage in interfaith discussions on belonging, connection, forgiveness, and reconciliation.

Peacemakers will include: Ken Cloke, Donald Proby, Estelle Frankel, Rhonda Magee, Eric Wilson, John Abd Al-Qadir Davies, Isa Gucciardi, Nura Laird, Anne Bachle Fifer, Terry Neiman, Mahabba Young, Jennifer Wilhoit, and Laura Benghal.

MBBI is thrilled to be hosting our 10th International Peace Congress in Nairobi, Kenya, and the first to be located in Africa, November 13-17, 2023. The theme is Identity, Belonging, and Migration, designed to address some of the significant impacts on individuals, families, communities, and countries around the globe as a result of climate change, social unrest, political shifts, and many other influences.

This will be a Congress for learning new things, broadening perspectives, and stepping into taking action as an international peacebuilder, negotiator, and supporter. Speakers will invite questions, considerations, and actions: How do we define identity? What does it mean to belong? How does migration impact social structures?

Join us in Nairobi, Kenya, for engaging speakers, transformative dialogues, and interactive sessions that will focus on charting the next decade of collaborative best practices in peacebuilding. To extend the week, we will have a peacebuilder certificate training before the Congress, a gala dinner to end the Congress, and an excursion following the Congress to explore the beauty and brilliance of Kenya.