ADR Learning Institute News

ADR Learning Institute’s Mediation Training is now recognized by IMI – International Mediation Institute.  This is the announcement from their blog post on January 28, 2021: New IMI Certified Mediator Training Program: ADR Learning Institute (Canada) We are delighted to announce that ADR Learning Institute has had its training program approved as an IMI Certified Mediator Training Program. Retrospective recognition is in place for graduates from 1 December 2019, and we are delighted to recognise another program headed by an IMI Certified Mediator, Paula Drouin. IMI Certified Mediator Training Programs, or CMTPs, meet international competency criteria for mediation training excellence. Individuals [...]

ADR Learning Institute has grown so much this year it was time to share the excitement and workload by hiring some staff. In August we hired our first employee as a Part-time Education Administrative Assistant to take care of everything related to student records. She can do things in Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Mail Merge that I did not know was possible. In October we hired a Part-time Education Coordinator to take care of editing course content, booking coaches, interacting with students about course content, assignment reviews, updating content and tracking learner progress in our online school platform – eLearn. MEET OUR LEARNER’S [...]

The Art of Conflict Resolution Certificate Program in collaboration with the University of Alberta, Faculty of Extension. Art of Conflict Resolution Zoom Graduation June 2020 We had 8 graduates from our first online Art of Conflict Resolution Certificate Program. We congratulate Paulette DeKelver, Al Proulx, Adnerys Armstrong, John Freebury, Stacy Grainger-Schatz, Christine Wong, Krista Smith, and Tracy Sharuga. The photo is from our last Zoom Class and the other photo is a sample of course materials as well as the course materials holder that all graduates received along with their Certificate. Feedback from Learner’s has consistently been amazing. They not [...]

I am so honored to announce that on December 13, 2019 I signed contracts with the Governors of the University of Alberta for the delivery of ADR Learning Institute’s Art of Conflict Resolution Certificate Program courses through the Faculty of Extension commencing January 2020. They will run out of the Faculty of Extension’s downtown classrooms on Jasper Avenue in Edmonton, Alberta. It is a beautiful space with floor to ceiling, wall to wall windows in the classrooms, many break out rooms, and a beautiful huge living wall. Participants will be registered students of the University of Alberta and of ADR [...]