This course is for participants who would really like to get trained in mediation, and:

  • be available to attend to five full training days (40 training hourse).

  • are looking to attend a world-class mediation training program.

  • would like to learn from full-tim practitioners rather than from full-time educators.

  • are looking for an excellent program that will equip them with the knowledge and the skills necessary to perform mediation activities.

Imagine if you could...

  • get the necessary know-how and experience of a competent mediator

  • become an international mediator by joining a 5-day course with offline assignments

  • have one-year access to some of the most experienced full-time international mediators and trainers

  • become an ADR Center Accredited Mediator, an IMI Qualified Mediator and use it to build your public professional profile and your mediation practice

    • This course has been built on more than 27 years of day-by-day mediation experience of ADR Center full-time mediators

    - a diverse faculty from all over the world with the ability to understand and work with the cultural parameters of training participants.

    The course is divided into 5 full-day sessions with support for effective preparation and potential post-training opportunities to engage the training faculty - full-time professional mediators - and engage in joint shadowing, coaching, and supervised practice opportunities.


    Further, participants will have one-year of access to the ever-growing virtual library of ADR Center Academy. 

    You’ll learn how to help others manage and resolve civil and commercial disputes as independent mediators so that you can add value and grow your practice.

    By the end of this program, you’ll be able to identify barriers to negotiation, manage resolution of conflicts, design custom-made and facilitate most effective mediation processes for the parties and the dispute in place.

    This course will teach you how to learn to apply the ADR Center’s SOLVE TASKS 5x5 matrix so that you can design and deliver the five phases of mediation - Set up, Open the process, Listen & understand, Validate options and Enable resolution. Please email us ( [email protected] ) for further details.

    Training Agenda

    KNOWLEDGE 25%
    SKILLS 75%

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    PLUS get one-year access to the library of ADR Center Academy with videos, presentations, manuals, articles, etc.



    The biggest incentive for mediation clients is the quality of the mediation services. 


    You will have the unique possibility to access world-class quality of mediation training from your residence through our accessible and comprehensive online learning management system over the course. Then, for another year, the virtual library of ADR Center Academy will be there to support your ongoing development efforts. Please email us for further details.

    Meet our global faculty of experienced full-time mediators!

    The faculty of ADR Center Academy includes highly experienced mediators and trainers mostly from ADR Center Global panel with years of international experience in the field of ADR and a proven track record of successfully mediating complex cross-border disputes as well as designing and delivering training courses all over the world. Our trainers are, in fact, highly skilled professionals of different nationalities with a multicultural professional background and the ability to work alongside people with different cultures. All our trainers fluently speak English in addition to one or more languages in order to design and conduct an international training program. The trainers of ADR Center Academy have a combined experience of training more than 15.000 mediators around the world.

    Lead trainers

    Senior Trainer

    Elena Koltsaki

    Elena Koltsaki is a lawyer-mediator and a Participating Adjunct Professor of Mediation and Negotiations Management at ALBA Graduate Business School of the American College of Greece. She is currently also the lead mediation trainer of the biggest public Mediators’ Training Institute in Greece (Bar of Athens) that provides Accredited Training for Mediators in Greece.

    Senior Trainer

    Constantin-Adi Gavrila

    Adi is a full-time professional mediator with extensive experience since 2002 in supporting individuals, groups, companies, governments and international organizations to resolve a wide variety of disputes, both domestic and international. Adi has trained more than 1000 mediators and has provided consultancy services to beneficiaries and governments from more than 20 countries to design and develop mediation programs.

    He is also an active mediator in the development space, working with the Office of the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (CAO) and Independent Project Accountability Mechanism, the IFC/MIGA (World Bank) and EBRD accountability mechanisms, to facilitate dialogue processes between the bank clients and communities concerned about the environmental and social impacts of bank financed projects.

    Adi is the first president of the Romanian Mediation Centers Union and served as Co-Chair of the Independent Standards Commission convened by the International Mediation Institute (IMI). He is a Ph.D in constitutional law with emphasis on "Mediation and Access to Justice".

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    What people usually ask before signing up for ADR Center International Accredited Mediator Training:

    • Do I need any kind of equipment to attend the course?

      You don't need any equipment to join this in-person course. When needed in class, the training faculty will use ADR Center's equipment. Yet, at times, the trainers may ask participants to use their smartphones to connect to real-time polls.

    • What if I miss one live session?

      It will be ok. We require a minimum of 90% attendance for a successful completion of the course.

    • What if I fail the final assessment?

      We provide a second possibility to take the final assessment.

    • Do I need to have a legal background?

      No.