Spring 2025
Certified Mediation Training

Accredited by the Mediator’s Institute of Ireland

Course Description

The RoundTable certified mediation training programme, accredited by the Mediator’s Institute of Ireland, offers you the opportunity to train as a mediator. Over the course of three months, you will gain an understanding of conflict, alternative dispute resolution, mediation legislation and the transformative, facilitative and evaluative models of mediation. You will learn the skills and techniques of mediation, explore your style of mediation and apply your learning in simulated mediation situations, culminating in your preparation to go forward for assessment to become a certified mediator with the Mediators Institute Ireland.

What the programme offers?

This blended learning programme (classroom and online) is guided through module based work, providing you with the skills and knowledge to understand the theories, models and areas of mediation, the mediation act, understanding and managing conflict in mediation, the skills of the mediator, the mediation process, and practical experience through role plays for both online and in person mediations. (For details of each module, see curriculum above)

Main Benefits

Gain an understanding of the mediation process;
Learn how to manage conflict and become a qualified mediator;
Learn how to manage conflict in mediation;
Help people resolve their conflicts peacefully;
Assist people in conflict to save time and money by avoiding court and legal processes;
Make a difference to people’s lives.

Dates

This course is a blended learning course with 8 online sessions, delivered through Zoom, and 3 full days of classroom work. Classroom training will take place in a Cork City Venue.

Session: Date:

Time: Delivered:

Session 1. Tuesday 11th March 2025

Session 2. Thursday 13th March 2025

Session 3. Tuesday 25th March. 2025

Session 4. Thursday 27th March. 2025

Session 5. Tuesday 1st April. 2025

Session 6. Thursday 3rd April. 2025

Session 7. Thursday 10th April. 2025

Session 8. Tuesday 15th April. 2025

Session 9. Thursday 17th April. 2025

9.00 a.m. – 1.00 p.m. Online

9.00 a.m. – 5.00 p.m. In-Person Training

Cork City Venue

9.00 a.m. – 1.00 p.m. Online

9.00 a.m. – 5.00 p.m. In-Person Training

Cork City Venue

9.00 a.m. – 1.00 p.m. Online

Session 10. Tuesday 29th April. 2025

Session 11. Thursday 1st May 2025

External Assessment 10th & 11th June 2025

9.00 a.m. – 1.00 p.m. Online

9.00 a.m. – 5.00 p.m. In-Person Training

Cork City Venue

Trainer

Ber Barry-Murray

Ber is an advanced accredited mediator with the Mediators Institute of Ireland, with 20 years experience as an active mediator, having qualified in the Family Mediation Service in 2000.
In addition to her extensive work in mediating with families, she is on the Council of MII, with responsibility for the family sector. She has led the team who developed the template and guidelines on Separation Mediation Settlements;Parenting Mediation Settlements and Child Support Mediation Settlements.

Ber is on the panel of assessors for Advanced Mediators with MII, on the panel of mediators for the Medical Council, and panels for mediation in some of the large universities. She has mediated cases in family separation/divorce, child issues (both direct and indirect work with children), foster and family law cases.

Ber designed the family separating couples mediation training for MII in 2010 and has delivered this programme since that time. She is currently involved in the revision of this course. She brings extensive experience to the training in working with families, and delivers a practical applied programme through case study application.