EMI provides training to become a mediator

Erickson Mediation Institute offers a 44-hour Divorce & Family Mediation Training. The training is November 2 - 6, 2009 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Erickson Mediation Institute offers a 30-hour Core Skills Mediation Training. This training is scheduled for October 20-23, 2009 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

This Midwest training is convenient for people from Minnesota, Iowa, North and South Dakota and Wisconsin, and appropriate for all over the world.

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.

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.

Hands-on training
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.

EMI offers certified training sessions to serve greater MN cities including, Saint Paul, Minneapolis, Bloomington, Richfield, Minnetonka, Apple Valley, Saint Louis Park, Edina, Burnsville, Plymouth, Hopkins, Eagan, Lakeville, Farmington, and Anoka.