Continuing Education for Current Mediators

Professional Members are required to submit an annually report 10 hours of continuing education completed in the current or prior calendar year.

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Mediation covers such a wide variety of subject areas that it is not feasible to recommend supplemental education/training and experience for each subject area. Some subject areas require understanding of specific practices, knowledge, terminology, and skills to address particular situations. For example, in family disputes, mediators should have an understanding of domestic violence dynamics and skills to determine whether mediation is appropriate and to provide suitable assistance to the parties. It is incumbent on the mediator to determine and achieve the understanding, knowledge, terminology, and skills necessary to mediate competently in any subject area.

Continuing education in mediation could be obtained through workshops, conferences, mentor lectures, books, articles, and other publications, observation of live or video mediations and role plays, interactive feedback (e.g. peer review, feedback from mediator observers), electronic discussion groups and online training.

It is the mediator’s responsibility to seek the most relevant continuing education. Mediators are encouraged to take advantage of a variety of educational opportunities, the focus of which may shift over time. For example, beginning mediators may find it helpful to focus more on process education while more experienced mediators may find it useful to focus on substantive knowledge.

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