Relationship Training For Professionals Working With Families
Family-led decision making & mediation
Support families to make decisions together through structured, child-focused conversations. Our training and resources help practitioners facilitate collaborative discussions, strengthen family and care giver relationships, reduce conflict, and empower families to develop sustainable solutions that keep children at the centre of decision-making.
Amity Training and Resources
We have carefully created a comprehensive suite of resources and associated training to suit everyone working with families, adults and children. Our training is delivered by experts either face-to-face, virtually or via our digital learning platform. Some of our self-help resources require no training.
Family-Led Decision Making
Family-Led Decision Making is Amity’s practical, strengths-based approach to helping families take an active role in making decisions and finding solutions that work for them. The training equips practitioners with the skills to manage difficult conversations, bring different perspectives together and support families to identify their strengths, resources and wider networks. The full-day, in person course includes a range of practical tools and resources that practitioners can use directly with families to encourage meaningful participation, reduce conflict and develop realistic, family-owned plans.
Spotlight Session: Mediation Skills for Practitioners
This practical training introduces simple mediation-informed skills that help professionals guide discussions more safely and constructively. Participants will learn how to reduce defensiveness, reframe blame and keep the child’s needs central without taking sides. The session focuses on small language and practical changes that make a big difference in real interactions with parents, carers and young people. It supports practitioners to slow down escalating situations and create conditions for problem-solving. The training builds confidence in everyday practice. Attendees will leave with phrases, techniques, strategies and tools they can use immediately. The aim is to help conversations move forward so families can reach workable agreements and better outcomes for children.