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Certificate in Family Mediation
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The Certificate in Family Mediation gives you the skills and experience you need to help families resolve conflict in a practical, safe, and positive manner, rather than through the adversarial and often costly alternative of litigation.
This program fulfills training requirements to go on to pursue the Accredited Family Mediator (AccFM) designation with the Ontario Association for Family Mediation (OAFM).
Graduating from our Certificate in Family Mediation gives you an edge over other mediators in the field, allowing you to add a credible university credential to your resume. You’ll also enjoy the benefits of learning from expert instructors, hand selected for their real-world experience and industry relevant certifications.
Program content is supplemented by their firs-thand knowledge in dealing with the types of challenging situations you’re going to face as an accredited family mediator, as well as the opportunity for you to network with like-minded peers in your program. You’ll also participate in dynamic role-playing sessions facilitated by seasoned coaches, allowing you to put your mediation skills to the test and improve your confidence.
This program offers you enhanced mediation skills to work in:
The 6-week, short-intensive format of the Certificate in Family mediation is eligible for OSAP. For more information, please visit our OSAP for micro-credentials page.
The Certificate in Family Mediation is for anyone who is currently working in or planning to move into a field and/or occupation that is tied to family conflict, as well as those who want to gain a formal certification to heighten and validate competency in this area. While many students in this program are Lawyers, Paralegals and Social Workers, many others come from a variety of fields that interact with families, including but not limited to:
To make our programming more accessible, and to ensure the safety of students and instructors, we are now offering the in-class course components for professional programs completely online.
Codesigned and delivered by senior industry leaders within established and emerging professional disciplines, our programs take a pragmatic, hands-on approach that helps students unlock their potential and apply it in the world.
Our students complete their programs in cohorts, encouraging peer-to-peer collaboration and growing the personal and professional networks of our students for years to come.
Our programs go deep on specialized knowledge, setting students up to be experts in their field while also enhancing soft skills and cross-disciplinary know how.
Our programs are responsive to student need and market demand in both form and content. Many of our programs are Canadian firsts.
Our accelerated formats can be completed in less than a year, part-time or full-time, and our programs can be taken online, onsite, or as blended offerings.
We develop our programs through collaborative relationships with industry and academic leaders to encourage career connections and a global perspective.
The School offers customized training programs for a range of organizations that are looking to grow, upskill, and adapt to change.