Mediate.com’s Online Mediation Training Task Force has shared its Final Report and Recommendations, which can be reviewed in its entirety here. Stemming from a months long working group process from earlier in the year, this Report will be followed by an open online forum September 24, 2021 to discuss the recommendations and path forward.’

While the report in its entirety offers more than 90 pages of suggestions and best practices (specifically including the ICODR standards) the eight key recommendations are:

1. Develop Online Mediation Advocacy and Resource Capacities
2. Expand Access to Online Mediation Services and Online Mediation Training
3. Update Mediation Practice and Ethical Standards to Embrace Current and Evolving Issues Raised by Online Mediation
4. Assist Existing Mediation Programs to Renovate Basic Mediation Trainings and Expand Online Mediation Training
5. Define a Universal Online Mediator Code of Disclosure
6. Encourage Established Mediators to Get Training to Most Competently Offer Online Mediation Services
7. Expand Online Mediation Mentorship, Clinical and Apprenticeship Opportunities
8. Elevate the Recognition of Online Mediation as the “Green Way” to Resolve Disputes

For more information on the report, and to download the full document, just visit https://www.mediate.com/articles/OnlineMediationPathsForward.cfm