40-Hour Basic Mediation Training — Now Enrolling

Interested in becoming a professional mediator or adding mediation skills to your professional background?

The newly updated 40-Hour Basic Mediation Training from Mediation Training Center and Professional Studies is now open for enrollment. This comprehensive online program provides practical, real-world preparation for individuals who want to develop professional mediation, negotiation, communication, and conflict-resolution skills.

Learn More Than Mediation Theory

Mediation is more than helping two people reach an agreement. Professional mediators must know how to manage conflict, communicate effectively, recognize underlying interests, guide productive negotiation, respond to difficult dynamics, and help parties explore realistic solutions while remaining impartial throughout the process.

The 40-Hour Basic Mediation Training takes students through the mediation process from beginning to end while developing the practical skills needed to work with people experiencing real conflict.

Students begin by developing a strong understanding of the mediator's professional role, the mediation process, and the nature of conflict. From there, the training progresses into professional mediator communication, case preparation, intake and screening, opening statements, identifying issues and interests, joint sessions, caucus, negotiation, problem-solving, difficult mediation dynamics, ethics, resolution, and drafting mediated agreements.

The goal is not simply to teach students what mediators do.

It is to help students understand how mediators think.

Throughout a mediation, a mediator must continually evaluate what is happening. Are the parties communicating productively? Is emotion preventing meaningful negotiation? Are stated positions hiding more important underlying interests? Would an open-ended question help? Is it time to reframe, summarize, caucus, reality-test a proposal, or simply allow the parties more time to speak?

Developing that professional judgment is an important part of learning to mediate effectively.

Practical, Real-World Mediator Training

Professional skills develop through application, which is why the program goes beyond reading lessons and memorizing terminology.

The training incorporates real-world scenarios, mediation role-plays, video training, practical exercises, professional mediator language, quizzes, agreement-drafting assignments, professional tools, and instructor check-ins.

Students learn how to prepare and assess mediation cases, conduct professional intake and screening, deliver an effective mediator opening statement, identify positions and underlying interests, develop productive mediation agendas, ask purposeful questions, and manage the flow of a mediation session.

As the training progresses, students work with more advanced situations involving emotion, difficult behavior, power dynamics, impasse, negotiation, and the development of potential solutions.

Negotiation concepts include BATNA, WATNA, ZOPA, option generation, reciprocal negotiation, and advanced bargaining strategies. Students also learn how to evaluate proposed resolutions, clarify the decisions reached by the parties, and draft mediated agreements.

Prepare to Build a Professional Mediation Practice

Learning to conduct mediation is only part of preparing for professional practice.

The training also addresses the practical side of establishing a mediation practice, including professional forms and procedures, case-management considerations, professional fees, referral relationships, networking, working with attorneys and other professionals, marketing, professional visibility, and preparing to accept your first mediation case.

Students complete the program with a Professional Practice Toolkit & Roadmap to Success designed to help bridge the transition from training to practice.

Mediation is generally an independent professional practice. Completing mediation training is not an offer of employment or a guarantee of clients or referrals. Successful mediators develop their practices over time through professional relationships, networking, excellent service, continued learning, and consistent marketing.

Court-connected mediation programs may also establish separate qualifications and eligibility requirements depending upon the jurisdiction and type of case.

Who Can Enroll?

You do not need a college degree, law degree, or previous mediation experience to enroll in the 40-Hour Basic Mediation Training.

The program begins with the foundations of mediation and progressively develops more advanced professional skills, making it appropriate for individuals entering the field as well as established professionals who want to strengthen their negotiation, communication, and dispute-resolution abilities.

The training may be valuable for aspiring mediators, paralegals, law students, attorneys, Realtors, financial professionals, business professionals, human-resource professionals, community leaders, and others whose work involves people, negotiation, decision-making, or conflict.

Flexible Online Training

The 40-Hour Basic Mediation Training is designed to provide professional training with the flexibility of online learning.

Online • Self-Paced • 40 Hours

No Degree Required • No Prior Mediation Experience Required

Students can work through the training online while developing their skills through structured lessons, exercises, scenarios, role-plays, video instruction, quizzes, assignments, and instructor check-ins.

40-Hour Basic Mediation Training — $499

For individuals ready to develop professional mediation skills and learn how the mediation process works in real-world practice, enrollment is now open.

Learn the process. Develop the skills. Think like a mediator.

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