You’d really like to have an international recognition of your mediation experience, and:

  • you can’t travel or leave work for more than one day to do it.

  • there are many mediation certification programs to choose from and you’re not sure which one is right for you.

  • you’d like to learn from and be recognized by full-time practitioners rather than from full-time educators.

  • you’re looking for an excellent program that will share cutting-edge mediation knowledge and skills

You’ll learn how we approach the mediation process around the ADR Center's 5x5 matrix that describes each procedural stage of the mediation process with related goals, agenda of physical actions needed for achieving the set goals, and the related mediation techniques and communication tools to facilitate the agenda.

This program will teach you how to learn to apply the ADR Center’s 5x5 matrix so that you can design and implement the five procedural phases of mediation - preparation, fact-finding, exploration, negotiation and resolution. Please email us ( [email protected] ) for further details.

This program is a training and an assessment program for experienced mediators

and is implemented by ADR Center's faculty of full time mediators, a diverse faculty from all over the world with the ability to understand and work with the cultural parameters of participants.

The program course is based on one full-day live session (or two half-day sessions) organized online or in person. Before attending the live program, the participants will need to submit their biography and a mediation log to demonstrate a sufficient level of mediation experience - 200 mediation hours or 20 mediation cases. Then, participants will receive access to a mediation case study and will be invited to submit a written sample in the form of a 2-page mediation intervention plan.
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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.

This program will be led by Leonardo D’Urso and Constantin Adi Gavrila with different guest speakers - mediation experts from all over the world. Please email us for further details.

Lead experts

CEO and Senior Trainer

Leonardo D'Urso

Leonardo D’Urso is a full-time mediator, co-founder and CEO of ADR Center, Adjunct Professor at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the School of Law of Pepperdine University (CA, USA) a mediation expert at CEPEJ - Council of Europe and Board Member of the Weinstein International Foundation. With more than 20 years’ experience in the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), he has mediated more than 1.200 national and international complex civil and commercial mediations.

He is an ADR policy advisor for Governments and has been a team leader and senior expert in several international projects in countries like Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Barbados, Jamaica, Jordan, India, Moldova, Oman, Tunisia, Turkey, Pakistan, Serbia and most of Europen Union Member States.

Author of several publications on negotiation and mediation, he is the co-organizer of the Italian editions of the workshop “Negotiation for Executives” of the Program on Negotiation (PON Global) at Harvard Law School.

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:

  • What kind of equipment do I need to attend the course? What if I am not computer savvy?

    Ideally, a computer with microphone and webcam. We don’t encourage participants to join the live sessions with their mobile phones. We strongly encourage participants to keep their video on during live sessions. We will support you, as needed, to use the platform and to join the live sessions.

  • What if my Internet connection is weak?

    You will need a stable internet connection, ideally a minimum of 2-4 Mbps. You can test the quality of your connection at fast.com.

  • 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.

  • Do I need to have a good proficiency in English?

    You will need to interact with other participants and with the trainers. Also, you will have to be able to read course materials and to write assignments. English proficiency will be needed.

    Upon request, we can organize this program in your own language for a group of participants. This will include additional costs for simultaneous interpretation.

  • We are a group of more than four people from the same organization. Can we get a discount?

    Sure. Please email us ( [email protected] ) for further details.