The MII Annual Conference 2019 "The Professional Mediator: Developing your practice and continuing professional acumen" will take place in the Ormonde Hotel, Ormonde St. Kilkenny on Friday 11th October and Saturday 12th October.
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Car Parking: Tickets for all day delegates and overnight delegates will be included free of charge for the Ormonde Q Park. Tickets must be validated at hotel front desk.
This schedule will be updated as additional details become available.
MII Annual Conference 2019
The Ormonde Hotel, Kilkenny
11th and 12th October 2019
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Friday 11th October |
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9.00 |
Registration / Tea/Coffee |
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9.30 |
MII Annual General Meeting |
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10.00 |
Welcome address - Dr Olive Braiden Conference Opening - Minister Josepha Madigan, T.D, Minister for Arts and Culture President’s Address – Margaret Considine - Mission, Vision, Strategic Focus |
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10.20 |
Constance Cassidy: How to grow a specialist practice Constance Cassidy will speak to her personal journey of building a niche professional practice, of feeding the hunger to follow her passion and grow a sustainable practice – in addition to how to harness the resilience to not run when the road to success got tough. Constance Cassidy S.C. is the mother of seven children and is a practising lawyer. She specialises in licensing law and has been involved in all of the significant licensing cases in Ireland within the last 30 years read more.
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11.00 |
Tea/Coffee break |
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11.30 |
Maria Arpa: Selling Mediation When someone asks you to think ‘outside of the box’, surely we need a new box? If we are to make a living at mediating then we need to think more broadly about the service we are providing and match that to the people who are buying. Internationally renowned expert Maria Arpa brings her unique skills in peaceful solutions and a corporate history in running a marketing and advertising consultancy to challenge us as mediators to think more broadly and design our mediation service proposition that is attractive and relevant to an evolving marketplace. Having commanded single appearance fees of 25k Maria is well worth listening to if you want to think of your value proposition, engage your buying audience and providing a service you are proud of - your mediation practice. |
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12.45 |
Lunch break |
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14.00 |
Karen Erwin - How to write a great Mediation Agreement More than ever being equipped with agreement writing skills is imperative, Karen Erwin, past president of The MII and highly experienced mediator takes us through the art and mastery of good agreement writing. During this session you will learn practical tips and guidelines on how to draft a detailed Mediation Settlement to deal with the issues agreed by the Parties: what clauses to put into the agreement to comply with the Mediation Act 2017; what clauses to insert into the agreement to protect the mediation process and the Mediator; what some of the pitfalls are and how to avoid them. |
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14.45 |
Workshops – 1st session Building your mediation practice by Building your Brand - presented by Tracy O'Brien |
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Deepening the Dialogue: An introduction to The Dialogue Road Map (DRM) - presented by Maria Arpa |
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The 7 Hats of Neutrality - presented by Tony Kearney |
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Mandatory vs Voluntary Mediation - presented by Kevin Browne |
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16.00 |
Tea/Coffee break |
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16.30 |
Listening session. The Professional Mediator Conference is our annual congress where we get together to share our practice as mediators, open our minds to new ideas and tools and to connect with peers and friends. We started this in 2018, and the outputs are now the MII’s 12 strategic priorities for 2019-2022. We continue our listening session this year by asking you as our members to address two of the fundamental questions facing our profession. How can we better promote mediation in Ireland? Should the MII be actively securing work for mediators in Ireland and if so how? |
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17.30 |
Kevin Browne: Planning the Dublin 2020 International Summit: Bringing the world to Ireland |
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All day |
Running all day long in parallel to the conference agenda will be three mediation hubs – family, research and business, This is a relaxed forum for all conference attendees to pop in, sit and have a chat, make an appointment and discuss topics of interest in these areas, such as voice of the child in mediation, insights from latest research, how to write a book, get supports for your business, websites, grants etc. |
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19.30 |
Pre dinner drinks reception |
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20.00 |
Dinner 20.15 – 20.35 Pre dinner speaker - The Honorable Justice Henry Abbott Music and dancing. |
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Saturday 12th October |
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9.30 |
Registration |
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10.00 |
Plenary session: Panel Discussion chaired by President Margaret Considine on topics of interest to MII Members with the Hon. Mr. Justice Henry Abbott, Karen Erwin, Maria Arpa and Kevin Brown. |
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11.00 |
Tea/Coffee break |
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11.15 |
Workshops – 2nd session Nonverbal communication in Mediation - presented by Roger McGrath |
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The Family Mediation Service unplugged: a look under the bonnet at its Skills, Techniques and Process, with some of Europe's most experienced Family Mediators' presentation - presented by Fiona McAuslan |
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Peer Mediation: Education and the provision of ADR skills to the next generation presented by Alec Coakley |
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Do you have a Mentor in your life? - presented by Claire Kearney |
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12.30 |
MII Sector updates and President’s closing address |
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13.00 |
Close |
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The MII invites proposals to present workshops, training sessions or research at our Annual Conference on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th October 2019 at the Ormonde Hotel, Kilkenny.
The key objectives of the annual conference are to offer mediators high quality continuing professional development, provide access to evolving and cutting edge theory and practice so as to maintain and increase the quality and professionalism of mediation.
Our theme this year is: The Professional Mediator: Developing Your Practice And Continuing Professional Acumen.
Closing date is Friday June 21st.
Details and application form
The MII accredits mediation training courses which meet set training standards. The following training programmes have been recognised as MII approved training programmes.
The purpose of CPD is to ensure that Mediators keep their knowledge and skills up to date for the benefit of users of their service and for their own personal and professional development.
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