Health Law Mediation Training

Mediation Training 

Offered by the AHLA Alternative Dispute Resolution Service in partnership with the Hamline University School of Law, a leader in dispute resolution and health law



Mediation Training: Friday, October 19, 2012 from 8:30 am-5:30 pm (Central); Saturday, October 20, 2012 from 8:30 am-5:30 pm; and Sunday, October 21, 2012 from 8:30 am-12:30 pm.


You will acquire the knowledge and skills to mediate a health law dispute effectively and ethically. The training is highly interactive and provides extensive coaching and feedback. All participants will have the opportunity to practice mediating a case from start to finish.

Topics will include:         

• An overview of the mediation process and the mediator’s role


• Preparing for a productive mediation session


• How mediation begins


• Accumulating information and developing the agenda


• Generating movement


• Use of separate sessions (caucuses) 


• Ending the mediation (with and without agreement)


• Mediation ethics


• An opportunity for everyone to conduct a mediation from start to finish observed by a coach who will give individualized feedback