40-Hour Family & Divorce Mediation Training

Mosten Guthrie flagship 40-Hour Family and Divorce Mediation Training. Ten Days of Training. September 16-20, 2024, and September 23-27, 2024. This training gets rave reviews from both experienced divorce professionals and those just starting out in mediation, collaborative practice, and coaching. Top-notch instructors, innovative materials and a supportive and engaged participant group make this a truly enlightening and transformative course.

Align your practice with your values, get excited about your career again, and put your best qualities to work helping families. Did you know that many mediation professionals recommend taking several 40-hour foundational trainings to learn new approaches, brush up your skills, and gain insight from new instructors? Come join us and see for yourself what a difference a high-quality training can make.

An essential skill-building course for those looking to mediate or to support or coach clients in mediation or Collaborative processes, this training includes:

• Ten days of live, participatory online instruction with experienced and engaging instructors who facilitate an engaged, collaborative learning environment. Each day has four hours of instruction and a 30-minute break.
• Two leaders of the field, Forrest “Woody” Mosten and Susan Guthrie, are the primary trainers for the course and bring decades of experience and expertise in mediation, collaborative law, unbundling, practice building, teaching, and online mediation skills and ethics.
• A supportive and engaged interdisciplinary participant group includes professionals with backgrounds in law, mental health, coaching, financial, education, and other fields.
• Extensive written materials cover foundational concepts, a toolbox of mediation skills, step-by-step processes, checklists, and essential building blocks for a family and divorce mediation practice
• Participants who complete the training will receive a Certificate of Completion for the Mosten Guthrie 40-Hour Family and Divorce Mediation Training, which is qualified as an MC3 approved training and qualifies participants for membership in most Collaborative Practice groups and family mediation panels. Please note that synchronous attendance and participation is required and recordings are not available for makeup or review; see Mosten Guthrie Academy Cancellation and Attendance Policies (linked) for more information.
• The Mosten Guthrie 40-Hour Family and Divorce Mediation Training course is approved by the California State Bar for 37.5 hours of California MCLE and Family Law Specialization participatory credit, including 2 hours of Ethics. Mosten Guthrie Academy is also approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (provider 75785) to sponsor Continuing Education and this training meets the qualifications for 40 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Mosten Guthrie Academy maintains responsibility for this course and its content. Professionals in other states can request credit approval from their governing organizations (credit is not guaranteed).
• BONUS:  Included in your tuition is a live online thirty-minute practice building and cutting-edge marketing session with Susan Guthrie designed for the new mediator looking to kick start their mediation practice or the established mediator looking to raise the bar on their marketing outreach.