Spring 2024 – Certified Mediation Training – Accredited by the Mediator’s Institute of Ireland
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.
For registration form please contact: info@roundtable.ie
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.
Course Dates
This course is a blended learning course with 6 online sessions, delivered through Zoom, and
4 full days of classroom work. Classroom training will take place in a Cork City Venue. The
dates are:
| Session: | Date: | Time: | Delivered: |
| Session 1 | Thursday 21st March 2024 | 9.00 a.m. – 1 p.m. | Online |
| Session 2 | Tuesday 26th March 2024 | 9.00 a.m. – 1.p.m | Online |
| Session 3 | Thursday 28th March 2024 | 9.00 a.m. – 1.p.m | Online |
| Session 4 | Tuesday 9th April 2024 | 9.00 a.m. – 1.p.m | Online |
| Session 5 | Thursday 11th April 2024 | Full day: 9.00 – 5.00 p.m | In-Person Training in Cork City Venue. |
| Session 6 | Tuesday 16th April 2024 | 9.00 a.m. – 1.00 p.m | Online |
| Session 7 | Thursday 18th April 2024 | 9.15 a.m. – 5.30 p.m | Online |
| Session 8 | Tuesday 23rd April 2024 | 9.00 a.m. – 1.p.m | Online |
| Session 9 | Thursday 2nd May 2024 | Full day: 9.00 – 5.00 p.m | In-Person Training in Cork City Venue |
Assessment
Assessment occurs during the training days on understanding, participation and evidence through role play of acquired skills. In addition, learners will engage in a continuous cycle of self-observation and self-evaluation. Learners are required to complete a Conflict Assignment (2500 words) .This assignment is evaluated by the trainers and is used to assess participants’ integration of skills and knowledge throughout the training.
To become a certified mediator with the Mediator’s Institute of Ireland, participants must go forward for certification. This certification is a video recorded assessment where the participant demonstrates the core mediation skills through role play of a simulated workplace conflict. For those who wish to be assessed for MII certification, assessments will occur on the 28th and 29th May 2024 (Learners will be required to be available for one of these days. Assessments are undertaken by an independent assessor and will take place through in person / face to face sessions)
Trainer
Ber Barry Murray
Ber is an advanced mediator with the Mediators Institute of Ireland and the International Mediators Institute, with 20 years’ experience working as mediator, having qualified in 2000. She has mediated complex disputes nationally and internationally, assisting those who are party to the mediation in arriving at a resolution. The breadth of mediations undertaken, includes workplace, family, commercial, education, medical, financial, succession and land disputes.
Ber is a member of Council of the Mediators Institute Ireland, and is the family sector representative and on the accreditation committee.
In addition to being a Mediator, she holds a master’s degree in education and a law degree. She has trained mediators since 2004 at certified level; for the family sector and has trained and supervised mediators to become practicing mediators. She delivers a practical applied programme
Module 1: Introduction to Mediation
Module 2: Understanding and Managing Conflict in Mediation
Module 3: The skills of the mediator
Module 4: Mediation Process
Module 5: Role Play Practice
• Self-directed Hours required outside training: minimum 20 hours
• Full attendance required.
Further training is a requirement for members of the MII who wish to practice as separating couples' mediators. Please refer to our Separating Couples Mediation training programme for further details.
