Professional Practice in Mediation

To be eligible for entry onto this unit, you must be trained in interpersonal or commercial mediation, having successfully completed a recognised, externally-accredited training course of a minimum of forty hours duration. You must additionally be undertaking case supervision/consultative support in an explicitly agreed and contracted supervision arrangement.

You will need to have access to mediation cases, involving disputes of the type you are trained to resolve (either commercial, interpersonal, neighbourhood, family relationships, or complaints), and to have the facility to carry these out safely, ethically, and within a properly contracted arrangement.

To get you started, we have a discussion with you about how best to proceed with gathering up and collating your evidence, and then we send you the paperwork that you will need in order to build your portfolio.

We remain available to support and guide you as you write up and reflect on your cases.

Once your written portfolio is completed, we invite you to attend a viva voce examination with our CEO and Founder, Dr Mike Talbot. This can take place online, or you can attend in-person at our Head Office in Derbyshire.

You are assessed on how you present the cases that you have mediated, as well as your ability to identify and reflect on what went well and what could have gone better in your practice.

It is anticipated that you might take anything from one month to several years to accumulate the necessary evidence, depending on the number of mediation cases you are exposed to.