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We train and certify the most skilled conflict resolution, negotiation, and communication mediators.
Become a Peacemaker
You will learn the best methods of creating win-win situations.
Save Relationships
You will prevent ugly legal battles between friends.
Improve your Community
You will contribute to a world with less litigation.
Are you ready to become a world class Mediator?
Learn with Experts
You will learn world class skills and techniques from professionals that will help you become a powerful mediator.
Resources
We will provide all the resources needed to help you learn how to excel during your mediation sessions.
Flexible Learning
All our classes are done remotely with a professional so you can learn in your own space.
State Standards
After the class, you will be recognized by the justice courts of the state where the instructor is located.
What you will Learn
Consulting
We work with organizations to understand and evaluate their present systems for their delivery of services and constructively evolve. Our EVOLVE model takes organizations through a proven sequence of assessing and understanding the current situation, defining desired outcomes, sharing information, gaining support through dialogue, and developing integrative solutions.
Assessing
Our assessments provide specific suggestions for moving forward to address difficult issues. An assessment explains the roots of conflict, understands the various perspectives through deep listening, validates the issues to be addressed, and determines whether there is a reasonable possibility of designing a process to manage conflict, build understanding and resolve disputes.
Process Designing
We work with leaders who want to learn and integrate the wisdom of others through authentic engagement. Team members design and facilitate tailored processes that inform decision making.
- Facilitating mindful strategic planning
- Facilitating public input processes for contentious public issues
- Moderating community advisory groups
- Supporting community engagement efforts
- Facilitating stakeholder negotiations
- Designing conflict response and management systems
Mediation
Mediation is more formal than facilitation. Mediators are impartial third parties who facilitate conversations or decision-making processes. Mediation Center team members specialize in mediating organizational issues where maintaining relationships and working across worldview differences are important to the participants.
Education
We help individuals become more aware of their own (and others') biases that their experiences have reinforced, how they interact with power structures, authority, minority perspectives, economic influences, and realities that are foreign to them.
- Navigating Cultural/Worldview Conflicts: Responding to Bias, Stereotyping and Prejudice
- Strategic Negotiation & Problem-Solving Skills: Working Through Issues When Working Together
- Beyond the Handshake - Building Relationships for the Future
- Mediation Skills
Learn from the Best
We are the recognized leader in the mediation and conflict resolution field. We have practiced for over 40 years, and are partnered with the Dispute Resolution Institute at Mitchell Hamline School of Law. We have a long reputation for excellence in providing direct services and training for professionals.
When you partner with us for your training you will learn to settle disputes, solve problems, manage decisions, enhance relationships, improve communication, negotiate with confidence, navigate workplace challenges, and hone leadership skills.
Our training offers professional accredited ongoing education training for every professional need including: Rule 114 Roster Neutrals, attorneys, LMFTs, and others.
Over 1,000 Mediators have learned with us to achieve their goals
People come to the practice of mediation from all walks of life and professional backgrounds. It's not just lawyers who become mediators. Anyone with an interest in alternative dispute resolution, strong communication skills, and sharp problem-solving abilities can excel in this career.
As a future mediator, you will help people feel heard and understood while providing them space to resolve their conflicts in a way that works best for them. The skills learned in mediation training can also be useful in your own personal and workplace relationships, as well as improving your overall communication skills.
Our Principles:
- Transparancy
- Collaborative Design
- Unanimous Outcomes
- Creating Partnerships
Our Mediation Alumni
These are some of the insights our past students have recieved from our training:
Clergy Member
The learning was rich and exceeded all of my expectations! The training was superb in thoroughness of content, and exploration of styles and techniques through role plays, coaching and feedback.
Attorney
I learned about the mediation process and started to build the skills necessary to become an effective mediator.
Contract Negotiator
This training helped me gain skills that will help me in my current job and potential for future positions. I built on and expanded my contract negotiation skills - exactly what I came for.
Retired Judge
Very satisfied. Oddly, I wish the training was just a tad longer...
Available Courses
Find courses that are best for your profession
What is the Process
Our expert training is all given through this website.
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You will first create a login to this website, sign up and purchase the course of your interest.
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On the scheduled day of the training a live professional will facilitate the discussion and you will join with a group of around 20 participants.
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Each day we will cover a ton of different topics related to mediation and you will acquire top-notch skills and methods to be an effective mediator.
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You will be shown and given links to all the resources we have been cultivating for the past 40 years.
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After participating in the full course you will recieve a certificate that can be printed or referenced by logging back into our website.
Ready to become a world-class Mediator?
We understand what it's like to lose important relationships from legal battles, to watch our community disagree and fight over previous agreements.
We teach Mediation because we want to create a society and community with the tools to peacefully work out disagreements and to help resolve conficts between friends.
When you learn Mediation with our team, you will walk away with world-class methods and principles that will arm you for any disagreement and the confidence to help resolve them.
- You will become a Peacemaker
- You will help Save Relationships
- You will aid in Improving Your Community
Teaching Since
1984Years in Practice
Download our Free: 10 Steps to Conflict Resolution
Still not quite convinced Mediation is for you? We've created a free resource for anyone to download and use in your daily life. Whether you are helping a friend with conflict resolution or need advice yourself, this free resource will help you dip your toe into the world of Mediation and hopefully help you out in the meantime!