Join Erickson Mediation Institute for our 44-hour divorce mediation training conference featuring lectures, interactive exercises, role-playing, along with question and answer periods each day.
This Midwest training is convenient for people from Minnesota, Iowa, North and South Dakota and Wisconsin, but anyone can attend.

The mediation training is approved by the Association for Conflict Resolution and qualifies participants to apply for the Minnesota Supreme Court Rule 114 roster of mediators. Wiley & Sons published EMI’s Divorce Mediation Training Manual in 2001.

Client-centered model

We teach a client-centered model of mediation. This model is used extensively throughout the mediation field by professional mediators who facilitate a process of resolving conflict and decision-making based on clients’ creativity and their own sense of fairness. It has evolved over the last thirty years dating back to the first divorce and community mediators who began in the early 1970s and has become a highly successful method of mediation with great client satisfaction.

Each training day includes lecture, interactive exercises, role-playing and question and answer periods. Role-plays are both “fish bowl” in which trainers demonstrate mediation, and small group in which participants apply what they are learning in role-play cases based on actual cases mediated by EMI.

Training conducted by nationally-recognized mediators

Steve Erickson and Marilyn McKnight draw on their thirty years of mediation experience to bring you the most up-to-date thinking and strategies to use in the mediation room. Case examples are pertinent to today’s issues in divorce. The training course is practical in nature, teaching mediator skills and interventions necessary to assist clients in reaching successful resolution of their disputes.

Training material provided

As part of the training, you will receive a comprehensive training manual. This manual includes most of the lecture notes, detailed material about new skills, new thinking, new interventions, strategies to avoid impasse, and forms necessary to begin a mediation practice.

Past participants have consistently indicated their continued use of their EMI training manual as the main tool they refer to when mediating their cases.