Thursday 14 March | 16:30 - 19:00
Our award-winning family law team is a pioneer at the forefront of many emerging areas of law. Now, we’re proud to invite you to join the regional launch event for the Centre for Individual and Family Identity (CIFI).
This event will be your opportunity to learn about CIFI and discuss current opportunities and challenges within law related to donor conception and surrogacy.
Whether you’re a lawyer, mental health professional, social worker, teacher, ART specialist, medical practitioner or academic — all are welcome and we hope to see you there.
An introduction to CIFI
CIFI is a non-profit, innovative, interdisciplinary and recently established clinical psychology-led service founded by Dr Sharon Pettle — a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Family Psychotherapist, as well as an expert witness and trainer.
CIFI is a specialist provider of:
- Therapeutic services informed by systemic family therapy approaches, which offer consultations by experienced clinicians to anyone impacted by identity issues in the field of donor-conceived families and surrogacy.
- Groups and workshops for families who have chosen to be open about the origins of their children or want to explore what this might mean for them.
- Interdisciplinary training and consultation for professionals and others to increase awareness, understanding and sensitivity towards all those involved in building families in this way — whether in health settings, schools, social care or the tertiary sector — both in the UK and internationally.
We're delighted to lend our support to CIFI as a valuable community resource that could benefit many of our clients with families built by donor conception, ART or surrogacy.
Event details
At CIFI’s regional launch event for Manchester and the North West, you can expect plenty of time for informal discussions and networking with fellow interested professionals.
This will take place in our Manchester office on Thursday 14 March, with the agenda as follows:
- 16:30 — Arrival and registration
- 17:00 — Introduction to CIFI, short presentations and Q&A
- 17:30 — Networking, drinks and canapes
- 19:00 — Close
Don’t miss this valuable opportunity to network with other professionals who deal with family identity and fertility issues across a range of disciplines.
If you would like to come along, please register via the form on the right of this screen.
For any questions, please contact events@brabners.com.
This is a joint event between Brabners and the Centre for Individual and Family Identity. By signing up to this event, you consent to your name, organisation and email address being shared with both parties for the purpose of this event.