Mediation
Week 2026

Varied cultural backgrounds shape norms, communication styles, and underlying interests. Unconscious cultural biases can silently derail even the most skilled negotiators, and cultural blind spots can stand in the way of a mediated dispute resolution.

Whether you operate locally or globally, this condensed introductory course will help you gain essential awareness about – often hidden – cultural dynamics, and how they shift the room. You will learn to identify conversational friction and anticipate cross-cultural misunderstandings before they stall progress. 

Your client's dispute crosses borders. Does your advocacy?

Cross-border mediation isn't domestic mediation with a passport. Different jurisdictions, different cultures, different enforcement realities — each one a risk, each one an opportunity. In two focused hours, learn to weigh multi-jurisdictional risk, turn cultural fluency into tactical advantage, and protect enforceability long before you settle.

Purpose-built for legal practitioners who advise and support their clients across legal systems, languages, and negotiation cultures.

When should a mediator step beyond facilitation and offer an evaluation—or a proposal of their own? This advanced course examines one of the profession's most debated questions. Designed for experienced mediators, it explores when, whether, and how to evaluate, drawing on BATNA–WATNA and SWOT analysis, cognitive bias, and caucus dynamics. We then turn to the mediator's proposal: how to craft it, communicate it, and use it to unlock stalled negotiations toward settlement.

Topics include early neutral evaluation, the one-text process, enforceability under the Singapore Convention, and hybrid models such as Med-Arb and Medaloa.