The course aims to provide family mediation knowledge and skills for social workers, lawyers, and human service professionals who are interested in understanding the practice of family mediation and equipping themselves to be an accredited family mediator.

The objectives of the course are:

• To help the participants understand the processes of mediation including the pre-mediation assessment and the mediation process
• To help the participants master the skills of mediation such as differentiating between position and interest, option generation and negotiation skills
• To help the participants manipulate the skills of managing the clients' emotions through reframing to create a conducive atmosphere for mediation
• To learn how to apply the tools of negotiation to address power imbalance, deadlock and impasse
• To learn the skills of drafting mediation agreement and to understand the application of matrimonial law in family mediation

Social workers, Lawyers, Human Service Professionals

•  Learn to identify different types of emotional expression
• Learn how to intervene differentially with emotion
• Learn how to access adaptive emotions to produce change
• Learn techniques of three different approaches
• Learn differences and commonalities of the three approaches

Social workers, counsellors, family therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, family doctors, counselling teachers, mental health workers, academics and other related helping professionals (CE & CME points are pending)