Professional development
Under the Standards, the types of activities accepted include:
- Education and conferences (up to 20 hours)—participating in formal structured activities such a training seminars and workshops (up to 20 hours) or attending conferences (up to 10 hours)
- Structured peer-based reflection (up to 7 hours)—participating in structured peer-based reflection on dispute resolution cases
- Professional supervision or coaching (up to 8 hours)—receiving supervision in relation to practice issues
- Providing professional development (up to 15 hours)—preparing and delivering presentations on dispute resolution or related topics (up to 5 hours) or providing professional supervision, assessment, coaching or mentoring of registered practitioners or trainees, and contributions to leadership in the field (up to 5 hours).
Please note, leading mediators must provide a minimum of 10 hours for this CPD activity - Related professional CPD (up to 5 hours)—CPD completed to maintain professional licensing or accreditation related to your related practice, such as in law, the behavioural or social sciences, or in the professional field in which you mediate, such as building or engineering
- Role playing in dispute resolution training (up to 4 hours)—participating in the Certificate of training, Certificate of assessment or other approved AMDRAS-related training provided by a registered provider
- Representing clients in dispute resolution processes (up to 4 hours)—participating as part of a lawyer-client relationship or as a support person to a party (maximum of 2 hours can be claimed for each separate process)
- Self-directed learning (up to 5 hours)—private study such as reading, listening to or viewing pre-recorded content such as podcasts, or writing articles or books relevant to mediation that are published in recognised journals or by recognised publishers
- Publications and research participation (up to 8 hours)—writing articles or other publication types such as blogs, reports, submissions and the like, or participating in dispute resolution-related research (maximum of 4 hours can be claimed for any one activity)
- Other activities the Mediator Standards Board approves on application by a recognised accreditation provider (up to 5 hours).
Read the Australian mediator and dispute resolution accreditation standards (AMDRAS) (PDF, 1MB) for more information on how to meet the requirements for re-accreditation.