Foundation Training Dates Spring 2024

Next course starts in April 2024!

The LBA Excellence programme was the very first modular Mediation Foundation Training course, and we continue to innovate to give you a firm grounding in the fundamentals of mediation skills and processes before applying those to your chosen specialist area of dispute resolution and giving you a recognised mediation qualification.

We also enable qualified mediators who have already trained in one area of mediation to convert to another area without having to go back to basics each time.

Each Foundation course builds on the other, creating a path to full specialism:

Successful completion of the Essentials and Fundamentals courses enables you to register with the College of Mediators as a Community and Workplace mediator.

Successful completion of the combined Essentials, Fundamentals and Family Specialism Courses enables you to register with the Family Mediation Council, and as such allows you to progress as a professional Family Mediator. You are also able to register as a Trained Family Mediator with the College of Mediators. Read more about the course here