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HARVARD MEDIATION PROGRAM

HARVARD MEDIATION PROGRAM

  • What Mediation Is
  • Who We Are
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    • HMP’s Dual Mission Statement
  • Training With HMP
    • Training Overview
    • For HLS Students
    • HLS Clinical Credit
    • For Community Members
  • What we Mediate
  • Refer a Dispute

Training

Basic Training

Typically, HMP offers Basic Training twice during the academic year, once early in the fall semester and once early in the spring semester. Each Basic Training offers new trainees more than 30 hours of instruction including mediation skills augmented by mediation theory and plenty of hands-on experience through role-playing. HMP’s Basic Training meets the requirements of Massachusetts law, which allows mediators to practice in Massachusetts’ courts with the protection of statutory confidentiality.  (See Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 233, Sect. 23C.)

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Practicing Mediation

Upon completion of basic training, newly-trained mediators are required to complete a two semester commitment with HMP as a volunteer mediator. New mediators generally co-mediate with a more experienced HMP member and also are supported by HMP members who volunteer as HMP’s “court liaisons.” HMP mediators serve in multiple courts in the Greater Boston area, mediating small claims cases and adult and juvenile Harassment Prevention Order cases. HMP also mediates direct referrals, including disputes referred to HMP from local area housing developments and animal control agencies. Visit our What We Mediate page to learn more.

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Upcoming Training

HMP’s next Basic Training for new mediators will be held in the 2021-2022 Academic Year, with the bulk of the training occurring over two weekends.

Please check back in the Summer of 2021 for specific dates.

Additional Resources

  • Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program

  • Program on Negotiation

  • Association for Conflict Resolution

  • National Association for Community Mediation

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