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AAFT ANNUAL CONFERENCE
UNITING EXPERTS IN FAMILY THERAPY
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12th Annual Conference
See you in Singapore
October 20–22, 2027 | Singapore
Internationally Informed, Locally Grounded, Family Focused
Last conference
11th Conference · Seoul
June 24–26, 2026
300+ participants
Next conference
12th Conference · Singapore
October 20–22, 2027
SUSS
The series
A different city each year
Practice, training, and research
Why attend
Practice that travels
Clinical work that holds across cultures and family forms.
Keynotes and workshops
Voices from Asia, Europe, and North America, plus hands-on sessions.
A regional network
Meet colleagues from across Asia and further afield.
Not a one-off event
The conference moves each year so each host region can lead.
About the conference
The Asian Academy of Family Therapy (AAFT) is a charitable, non-profit professional body dedicated to advancing family therapy research, training, and practice across Asia. Headquartered in Hong Kong, it brings together clinicians, educators, and researchers from the region and beyond.
Each year AAFT hosts a conference in a different city to promote the profession and highlight each region’s cultural specialty.
AAFT grew out of the HKU Family Institute (2003). The Academy of Family Therapy was established in 2012 and became the Asian Academy of Family Therapy in 2015. In 2020, with support from The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, AAFT opened Hong Kong’s first dedicated family therapy center at No. 4 Pottinger Street, Central.
12th Annual Conference — Singapore
Internationally Informed, Locally Grounded, Family Focused
October 20–22, 2027 | Singapore
Co-organized by the Asian Academy of Family Therapy, Counselling and Care Centre, and Singapore University of Social Sciences.
Conference date
October 20–22, 2027
Abstract submission
May 30, 2027
Venue
Singapore University of Social Sciences
The 12th Annual Conference of AAFT is coming to Singapore in 2027. This 3-day meeting is a space to learn and exchange approaches that are globally informed and rooted in local contexts, bringing practitioners and researchers across Asia and beyond together around culturally adapted systemic therapies.
More details will be sent at a later date — save the date!
Past conferences
Each year we host an annual conference to be held in different regions. So far, nine conferences have taken place. The following is a record of our previous conferences.
2026 · 11th · Seoul
June 24–26, 2026. More than 300 participants from Asia, Europe, and North America.
2025 · 10th · Okinawa
October 8–11, 2025. Nearly 200 participants from Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Korea, Singapore, the USA, France, Australia, Thailand, Bangladesh, India, and Nepal. More photos
2024 · 9th · Shanghai
October 25–27, 2024. Nearly 1,000 participants. Leadership passed from Takeshi Tamura to Zhao Xudong.
2023 · 8th · Hong Kong
October 27–29, 2023. 306 participants. Theme: Connecting and Reconnecting Families and Family Therapy Communities. Keynotes by Wai-Yung Lee and Maurizio Andolfi.
2021 · 7th · Seoul (virtual)
October 22–24, 2021. Organized with the Korean Association of Family Therapy. 302 participants. Theme: Family Therapy in Dynamic Asia.
2019 · 6th · Batam Island, Indonesia
July 9, 2019. 150 professionals. Theme: Shades of Spirituality and Beyond — Family Therapy Practice in 21st Century Asia.
2018 · 5th · Taipei
October 28, 2018. Over 200 participants. Theme: In Search of Diversified Families. Post-conference workshop by Maurizio Andolfi.
2017 · 4th · Tsukuba, Japan
November 1–4, 2017. More than 140 participants from over 17 countries. Opening keynote by Wai Yung Lee on working with trans-generational families.
2016 · 3rd · Shanghai
October 16, 2016. Almost 650 registered. Presentations on ADHD, bringing family therapy back to psychiatry, and child assessment.
2013 & 2015 · 1st & 2nd · Hong Kong
The first two conferences featured presentations from prominent therapists in Asia and were attended by more than 50 professionals from across the region.
Contact
Asian Academy of Family Therapy
No. 4 Pottinger Street, Central, Hong Kong
Tel. (852) 2859 5300
aaft.annualconference@acafamilytherapy.org