There’s been a real sense of focus across the ADR community this week as we head towards the final training sessions of the year. With our last Mediation Refresher Course taking place on 29 October, it’s the perfect time to pause, revisit your skills and end 2025 feeling confident in your practice.
We’ve also launched a new, light-hearted quiz to help you uncover your mediation content style – ideal if you’re looking for inspiration for your next LinkedIn post. And with National Mentoring Day around the corner, we’re highlighting how ADR Membership can offer the kind of professional guidance and peer connection that every mediator benefits from. Finally we have a new thought leadership piece from our MD Kim Logan following the Alliance For Youth Justice new report publication.
Mediation Refresher Course – Final Call for 29 October
Date: Wednesday 29 October 2025
Time: 9:30am – 4:30pm GMT
Location: Online
Price: £250
Reconnect with your skills. Rebuild your confidence. Refresh your practice.
If you have been away from the mediation table for a while, or simply want to sharpen your approach, this one-day refresher is designed to bring your practice back into focus. Whether you work in workplace disputes, community mediation, or a mix of both, you will leave with renewed confidence and practical strategies you can apply straight away.
You will cover:
• Refresh the Foundations – revisit the core principles that underpin effective mediation in both workplace and community contexts.
• Sharpen Communication Skills – strengthen your ability to listen deeply, reframe constructively and respond calmly in challenging situations.
• Reconnect with the Process – step through each stage of mediation, from preparation to reflection, with guidance on adapting your approach when cases get complex.
• Navigate the Tricky Bits – explore power imbalances, ethical dilemmas and how to decide when to continue – or when to pause.
• Invest in You – take time to reflect on your own practice, reconnect with your values and protect your wellbeing.
This is the final Mediation Refresher of 2025, with only a few spaces remaining for next week’s session.
What’s Your Mediation Content Style?
How do you tend to respond when conflict arises? Do you step in quickly to find solutions, take time to reflect before engaging, or try to maintain harmony at all costs?
Our new Conflict Style Quiz helps you understand the patterns behind how you approach disagreement and tension – both in mediation and everyday interactions.
You’ll explore how you typically respond under pressure, what your natural strengths are, and where you might need to adapt your approach. It’s not about labelling, but about building awareness – that essential first step in developing conflict intelligence.
Once you’ve completed the quiz, you’ll receive a short profile outlining your dominant style, tips on balancing it, and suggestions for how to use your strengths more effectively in mediation settings.
It’s a quick, practical way to deepen self-awareness and bring fresh insight to your practice.
National Mentoring Day – 27 October
Monday 27th October marks National Mentoring Day, a moment to celebrate the value of professional support and shared learning. That’s what our ADR Membership is built on – a community where mediators can exchange ideas, access supervision and reflective practice sessions, and grow through connection.
If you’ve been looking for a professional network that feels like a mentor in your corner, ADR Membership could be the perfect fit.
Through ADR Membership, you’ll have access to structured guided supervision, Q&A sessions with our senior trainers, and a growing library of practical tools and reflective resources designed to help you develop your practice. It’s a community built around shared learning, peer connection and continuous professional growth.
If you’re working within an organisation, we can also support you to embed reflective supervision into your team culture – helping you build internal capability and confidence across your mediation practice.
Whether you’re an individual mediator or leading a wider team, our mentoring and membership provide the structure, challenge and support to keep your skills sharp and your practice grounded.
Conflict, Coercion and Change
The Alliance for Youth Justice has published a new report, From Exploited to Exploiter?, exploring how young people affected by criminal exploitation are often left without support as they move into adulthood.
In her latest article, Kim shares her reflections on what this means for practitioners, and why developing conflict resolution skills, trauma awareness and reflective practice across teams is so critical to getting the response right.
That’s it for this week’s update. As it is half term either this week or next depending on where you are in the country we will be taking a one week break from the newsletter next week – we will be back with a bumper edition at the start of November, with big news to share with you..
Have a great couple of weeks…
The ADR Mediation Team
