Professional development
Professional development
Under the Standards, the types of activities accepted include:
- participating in education (up to 20 hours)—participating in formal structured activities such as training seminars and workshops (up to 20 hours) or attending conferences (up to 15 hours)
- reflecting on practice (up to 15 hours)—receiving professional supervision or coaching or participating in structured peer-based reflection on mediation cases
- providing professional development (up to 15 hours)—delivering presentations on mediation-related topics, including 2 hours preparation time for each hour delivered, or providing professional supervision, assessment, coaching or mentoring of mediator trainees and mediators
- credit for related CPD (up to 10 hours)—hours of CPD completed to maintain professional licensing or accreditation related to your mediation practice, such as in law or in the behavioural or social sciences or in the professional field in which you mediate, such as building or engineering
- learning from practice (up to 8 hours)—participating in up to four mediations as a client representative or in a formal learning capacity (up to 2 hours per mediation) or role-playing for trainee mediators and candidates for mediator assessment (up to 2 hours per simulation)
- 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
- other activities as may be approved by the Mediator Standards Board on application by an Recognised Mediator Accreditation Body (RMAB) (up to 5 hours).
Read the National Mediator Accreditation Standards for more information on how to meet the requirements for re-accreditation.