Mediation Training Professional Development Program

Mediating is an invaluable skill in any job. From sales negotiations to workplace disputes to legal arbitration, professionals in a wide range of industries face potential conflicts each day. This five-day mediation course helps students navigate themselves or their colleagues through these challenging moments. Using diverse role-play situations, mediation trainers help students move from confrontation to collaboration. Mediators provide the necessary tools for understanding a variety of conflicts from multiple perspectives, ensuring the quickest and most effective path to resolution.

Program Audience

This program is excellent preparation for those who plan to enter the field of dispute resolution, arbitration and mediation. Professionals with a legal background or just an interest in the dispute mediation field are encouraged to enroll. The program will also benefit professionals in supervisory or managerial roles. Human resources professionals, corporate executives, and sales professionals from a variety of industries are just some of the individuals who have benefited from this program in the past.

Learning Goals

Over an intensive five-day program students will:

• Acquire the skills used to assist parties with divergent interests to reach a resolution
• Engage in simulated mediations to develop an understanding of the mediation process
• Work with coaches who have professional conflict mediation experience
• Set performance-based standards for evaluating their own work
• Learn about ethics in the field, opportunities in commercial mediation and arbitration, and how to start building a practice as a mediator

Our training is performance-based. Our coaches use a set of performance standards to evaluate the skills of each trainee and can use those standards to let trainees know what they are doing well, what skills they need to develop further, and how to develop these skills

Certificate Requirements

Students who successfully complete this 40-hour course will be awarded a Certificate of Completion from Northwestern University's School of Continuing Studies. PLEASE NOTE THAT ATTENDANCE FOR THE DURATION OF THE ENTIRE SESSION IS REQUIRED IN ORDER TO EARN CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION CREDIT.

Continuing Education Credits

You may also earn continuing education credits for other jurisdictions.  We will be able to complete any documents you require, but you will need to pay the fees for the credits which may range from free to over $100.  You may wish to review the MCLE website and find your jurisdiction in advance.  If you have any questions, please email or call us at 312-503-1642.

The mediation skills training program is currently approved by AAM Training Committee to fulfill training qualification requirements for initial AAM membership.

For other SCS programs involving mediation, interested students can check out the Summer Institute in Negotiation. They can also obtain a non-credit professional development program certificate in Divorce Mediation, or a for-credit certificate in Dispute Resolution.

Northwestern's training program has been approved by the Presiding Judge of the Law Division of Cook County as satisfying one of the requirements to become a Certified Mediator in Cook County. Please see point 20.08 of proposed Local Rule 20 enacted pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 99.

Registration

Registration for courses is easy and can be completed entirely online. Full payment is due at the time of registration. Please follow this link to make a course selection and register for the course, or courses, that you wish to take.

Northwestern Excellence

• Northwestern University is a preeminent university recognized internationally as a hallmark of academic excellence.
• School of Continuing Studies programs provide students with exceptional opportunities for intellectual, professional and personal growth.
• SCS instructors bring outstanding academic credentials and relevant professional experience to the classroom to create a highly interactive, collaborative, and challenging learning environment.
• SCS students study with peers who have rich, diverse backgrounds and can provide lifelong learning connections.

Locations

Mediation Training courses are offered at 210 S. Clark Street location, conveniently located in Chicago's Loop.

Contact Us

If you would like to speak with someone to get more information about a program or course, give us a call or email us today!

Call: 312-503-0714
Email: pdp@northwestern.edu

Office Hours

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