Professional Training
Five-Day Civil and Commercial Mediator Training Programme
Forty hours of structured tuition, coached skills practice and role play in civil and commercial mediation, culminating in an assessed mediation and, on successful completion, accreditation by Legatia Law as a Civil and Commercial Mediator.
The Programme
Who it is for
Practising lawyers
Lawyers who wish to develop mediation as an additional professional discipline and acquire the practical skills required to conduct civil and commercial mediations.
Those entering mediation
Those intending to establish mediation as a professional practice and seeking structured training in the principles, process and practical conduct of civil and commercial mediation.
Other professionals
Professionals whose roles involve negotiation, contractual relationships, competing interests or the management of disputes and who wish to develop formal mediation skills.
Entry
What is required
The programme is intensive, practical and participative throughout.
No previous mediation training is required.
Participants are expected to attend the programme in full and to complete the preparatory reading provided in advance. Attendance throughout the five days is necessary in order to proceed to assessment.
Places on each programme are limited to thirty, and are confirmed on payment.
Professional Outcome
On successful completion
Forty hours of structured training, skills practice and assessed performance.
Participants will have completed forty hours of structured tuition, skills practice and coached role play in the conduct of civil and commercial mediation.
The programme is designed to develop the practical skills required to prepare for and conduct a mediation with professional discipline, including opening the process, managing joint and private sessions, identifying and testing the issues in dispute, facilitating negotiation, managing impasse and bringing the process to an effective conclusion.
Each participant will undertake a formal assessment of their own conduct of a mediation before independent assessors, measured against the programme’s published assessment criteria.
Participants who meet the required standard will be accredited by Legatia Law as Civil and Commercial Mediators and will receive a certificate confirming successful completion of the forty-hour programme and the assessment outcome.
For those intending to practise as mediators, the programme provides a rigorous foundation for professional mediation practice. For lawyers and other professionals, it develops a disciplined and transferable dispute-resolution capability for use in negotiations, commercial relationships and contentious situations.
The Principal Trainer
Miriam Bailey-Parkyns
The programme is taught in person throughout by Miriam Bailey-Parkyns, an accredited and registered Civil and Commercial Mediator and a Registered Fellow Member of the Civil Mediation Council, with over a decade of mediation experience and more than four hundred mediations conducted to date.
She also practises as a civil, corporate and commercial lawyer in contentious and non-contentious matters. Additionally, she is commercially aware, having held senior executive positions in several industries.
London
Course dates
Before you book
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Course Enquiries
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