UNITY Conference 2026

Building on the success of the UNITY2024 and UNITY 2025, such has been the demand that UNITY2026 will now take places over 3 days.

It is of course possible to attent any ONE, any TWO or all THREE days, as they can be booked seperately!

This years event will again provide a space to meet with colleagues from around the world, listen to and engage in presentations and workshops, get involved in conversations and discussions, and generally get a chance to revisit the core of Relational Practice in the contexts of both learnings from the past and contemporary developments and understanding.

Conference Focus

As with each previous UNITY, the primary focus will be on supporting and working with children, youth and families, especially by using relational practices.

Delegates are invited from Social Care, Social Work, Education, therapy teams and indeed, anyone working (or living) with children and youth in out-of-home care or who are in crisis.

In addition to practice topics, the conferece theme will examine 'Leadership in relational contexts', whilst also maintaining presentations that talk to relational practice more generally.

Relational Leadership requires sustained commitment. Building teams, developing morale, addressing workforce turnover, mentoring through example, and safeguarding relational values are ongoing and intentional tasks will be explored. As we become more experienced as practitioners and leaders, it is ever more apparent that there is a growing responsibility to ensure that hard-earned relational learning is:

• Preserved
• Remembered
• Adapted
• Reimagined
• Carried forward by emerging generations.

UNITY 2026 seeks to explore how we remain rooted in relational practice while rising into relational leadership.

Included in the registration fee:

• Access to plenaries & workshops
• Lunch each day
• Refreshments
• Materials
• Free book/s
• Free attendance gift

Presenters are attending from 10 countries, including USA, Canada, Australia, Hungary, South Africa, and Austria. These will be delivered by:

• Anne Martin,
• · Audrey Moore
• · Blair Semerak
• · Breanna Bruns
• · Christine Gaitens
• · Christine Pope
• · Coenraad de Beer
• · Coura Niang
• · Danah A. Williams,
• · David Power
• · Debra A Cockerton
• · Delia Noel
• · Dr Natasha Mahony
• · Dr Rochelle Sharpe Lohrasbe
• · Dr. Ashleigh Best
• · Dr. Emmie Henderson-Dekort
• · Dr. Heather Modlin
• · Dr. Howard Bath
• · Dr. Jenny McGrath
• · Dr. John Paul Fitzpatrick
• · Dr. Kelly Shaw
• · Dr. Kiaras Gharabaghi
• · Dr. Michelle Briegel
• · Dr. Niall Loftus
• · Dr. Stacy Kelsey
• · Emmanuel Ordu
• · Dr Eva Ihasz
• · Timea Teterják
• · Fiona Duncan
• · Florence Jansen
• · Harrison Dax Nash
• · Heather Sago
• · Jody Rhodes
• · Karen Mighty
• · Kari Sissons
• · L. Marie Damgaard
• · Lesley Goodyear
• · Lorcan Gleeson
• · Lynette Garcia-Johnson
• · Marian Connell
• · Michelle Holbrook
• · Michelle Watson
• · Monica Pauls
• · Simon Hogan
• · Soraya French
• · Stephanie McQuillan
• · Varoshini Nadesan
• · Wendy Gee

The full programme is available here: www.unityconference.org

==============================================Accommodation is booked separately to the conference registration and is directly with the hotel.

We have a conference B&B hotel rate of:

• €130 Single room per night,
• €150 Twin / Double room per night,
• €195 Triple room per night.

To book accommodation at the conference venue, please visit: https://www.bonningtondublin.com or phone + 353 -1-8373544

1. Click BOOK ONLINE
2. Select dates and click SEARCH
3. Click on CODE and then enter UNITY26
4. Click APPLY