APFM Webinars
APFM webinars are offered live as a benefit to APFM members. Others may pay a fee to attend a live webinar.
To register for an upcoming webinar, click on the webinar of interest below to be taken to the registration page.
If you have an idea for a future APFM webinar, please submit your proposal using the form on this page.
Upcoming Webinars and Online Courses
To learn more about a webinar or course, or to register, click on the item of interest below.
APFM Webinar – Beyond Protocols: The Art and Science of Interdisciplinary Family Mediation
This 90-minute presentation is scheduled for September 27, 2023, and will discuss common patterns of team dysfunction, and explore ways to recognize, redress, and learn from them.
APFM Webinar – Reflective Practice & the Structured Reflective Instrument for Improving 3rd-Party Interventions
This 90-minute presentation is scheduled for November 16, 2023, and will discuss the significance of attending to implicit goals and issues in addition to explicit ones, in conflict interventions and the essential role of Reflective Practice in building excellence in practice.
APFM Webinar – Bringing Unconscious or Inner Thinking into the Mediation Process to Create Understanding Between Parties
This 90-minute presentation is scheduled for December 6, 2023, and will deliver a brief overview of The S Questions Model developed in Gerry O’Sullivan’s book: ‘The Mediator’s Toolkit: Formulating and Asking Questions for Successful Outcomes. She will then focus on one of the methods of questions that can lead to a paradigm shift in the thinking of parties, in particular, the ‘Journey of Inference Questions’ which explore a person’s journey from their observations and interpretations through to their resulting and linked actions/reactions.
Past Webinars for APFM members: Log in Required
Our goal is to make prior APFM webinars available to members to view online any time. Webinar recordings are available at no additional cost to APFM members logged into the website. APFM members may either:
- Log in here and then return to this page to choose a recorded webinar; or
- Click on the “LOG IN” link below the webinar you’d like to view. When you login, you should be returned automatically to the page where you can view the webinar you’ve selected.
Once logged in, you can view as many recorded webinars as you like.
Past Webinars for the Public
If you are not an APFM member but would like to see one or more of our recorded webinars, please visit our Vimeo channel at https://vimeo.com/apfmnet, where you will find many of the recordings. You may rent the recordings for a fee.
List of Available Recordings (click to expand)
APFM Town Hall 2023: Mediator Mindset
APFM’s 2023 Town Hall was held Thursday, August 31, at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET.
APFM Webinar: International Roundtable of Mediation Presidents and Leaders
This 120-minute webinar was recorded May 3, 2023.
APFM Webinar: Family Mediation and Autism Spectrum Disorder
This 90-minute presentation was recorded on April 19, 2023, and addresses issues which often arise during mediation sessions and settlement discussions, and how mediators may constructively help parents discuss and settle such issues.
APFM Webinar: Premarital Mediation
This 90-minute presentation was held March 22, 2023, and will discuss mediation process, strategies and examples that will help both educate the couple as well as create a fundamental basis for relationship success in handling their assets, finances, and other decisions during their marriage.
APFM Webinar: How To Attract More Clients By Speaking on Virtual Stages
This 90-minute webinar is scheduled for December 7, 2022. It will teach you the simplest and fastest method to speak online that will allow you to connect with your audience and bring in new clients.
APFM Webinar: International Roundtable of Mediation Presidents and Leaders
This 120-minute webinar was recorded November 2, 2022.
Propose a Webinar
Do you have an idea for a webinar of interest to the professional family mediation community? Maybe you will be our next presenter! Please submit your proposal below and our training committee will respond in short order. Thank you!
Proposals will not be reviewed until they are complete. If any additional or supplemental materials including handouts are not ready to be included in this form, please email them to [email protected] as soon as they become available.