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Initial Mediation Training Courses & Registration in Additional Categories

Initial Mediation Training Courses

To become a CMC regulated mediator, you must attend and pass a CMC Registered Mediation Training Course.

CMC offers a membership journey for newly trained mediators through to the most experienced. This is reflected in the membership categories of Associate Mediator, Registered Mediator and Fellow. Benefits of CMC membership can be found here: CMC Members Benefits

The following organisations offer CMC Registered training courses which can lead to CMC regulated status (see here for all of the registration requirements).

CMC Registered Training Courses:

Academy of Experts

Academy of Mediators

ADR Group

ADR-ODR International

Align Mediation

Centre for for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR)

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb)

CLA Mediation & Training Ltd – Workplace Course

Crowther Mediation

Essential Mediation Solutions – both Civil & Commercial and Workplace Course

HMRC

Hunt ADR

LexRx Limited

London School of Mediation

Mediator Academy

M & D Associates

Phoenix Dispute Solutions

Pragmatism (UK) Ltd – Workplace Course

ProMediate

Radanks Ltd. UK

Resolution at Work – Workplace Course

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)

Society of Mediators

The TCM Group – Workplace Course

UK Mediation Limited – Workplace Course

University of East London (School of Business & Law)

Registration in Additional Categories

Mediators can register in either Civil/Commercial or Workplace categories, according to their training and experience.

It is possible for a mediator registered in one category to register in the other, if certain conditions are met:

– mediators registered in one category but already experienced in the second category should send in their CVs, if asking to transfer on the basis of work already done; or

– mediators registered in one area and newly trained in the other, can register if they have attended a suitable training course and completed three observations in the new area.

Such applications are sent to two members of the Registration and Standards Committee who will decide if the experience/training was sufficient for the additional registered status to be conferred.

Suitable conversion courses for Civil/Commercial mediators to become Workplace mediators must:

Consist of a minimum of 8 hours’ training, and a minimum of 3 hours pre or post course work/reading/preparation

Set the context of workplace vs civil/commercial mediation e.g. power imbalance, how to deal with confidentiality

Include some role play exercises/feedback

Include training about settlement agreements