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By reflecting on what we've learnt through the conference and our intentions and experience as family mediators, explore how we give power to parties in family mediation.

The session will address the New Zealand and Australian family mediation environment, and the practice of individual mediators. It will consider whether it is, or might be, desirable to encourage party centrism or empowerment in the family context.

Because many family mediators consider party centrism desirable, participants will be encouraged to look at how mediators enhance it. The group will look at ways to identify the language of disempowerment.

It would be helpful if participants arrived prepared to discuss their motivation in family mediation intervention. If empowerment is a goal for them, what has worked well in the past, and how could they foster it in future family mediations?

The intention is to have a working, experiential session which also attempts to draw together some of the earlier family session themes.

Podcast: Listen to Anet talk about this session pre-kon gres (12 mins) >>