Hong Kong Mediation Council Limited ("HKMCL") is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Center.
This is a five-day 40-hour intensive program delves into the range of skills required of facilitation mediators through interactive tutorials and role-play simulations. Participants are offered insights into ethical dilemmas, implicit bias, and emotions, and they are trained in tested practical techniques such as active listening, asking probing questions, generating creative options, reframing, overcoming impasse, and formulating sustainable agreements.
This training serves as a preparatory course (so called "Stage 1 Mediation Training Course") for the General Mediator Accreditation by the Hong Kong Mediation Accreditation Association Limited. Participants upon satisfactory completion of the Course may become a HKMCL Associate Member.
Learning Objectives
- Gain knowledge and experience the facilitative mediation model;
- Learn how to build relationships through the mediation process;
- Understand how to identify underlying interests;
- Acquire techniques to overcome impasse;
- Improve negotiation techniques;
- Explore roles of attorneys in mediation
Who Should Attend?
Professionals from all industries who wish to learn or improve their ability to mediate.
Past attendees have included lawyers, judges, government officers, executives, doctors, teachers, and administrators.
Enrollment is strictly limited to enhance a personalised learning experience.
Format
Face-to-face physical sessions, with lecturing and mediation roleplay exercises
Venue
In-person at a location to be determined.
Course Dates:
In Cantonese:
- 1, 2, 8, 9, 16, 23 November 2024
- 21,22,28,29 March & 5, 12 April 2025
In English:
- 4, 10,11, 17, 18, 25 January 2025
- 9,10,16,17,24, 31 May 2025
Fee
Standard Fee: HKD$15,000
Early Bird: HKD$13,000
Contact Us
Call (+852) 2525 2381 or email mediation@hkiac.org
Trainers
Josephine Ma
Trainer
Josephine Ma is the Vice Chairperson of Hong Kong Mediation Council Limited.
Josephine is an experienced solicitor and mediator with a career spanning over two decades. She specializes in high conflict general, commercial and family mediations, utilizing a diverse range of methodologies such as facilitative, transformative, evaluative, therapeutic, and high conflict mediation techniques. Josephine's expertise allows her to effectively guide parties towards resolving their conflicts. In addition to her mediation practice, she is a respected educator in the field, providing General Mediator Accreditation Training and serving as a Family Mediation Supervisor. Josephine has enriched the skills of over 1,000 professionals in Hong Kong, Macau, and mainland China, sharing her insights into mediation styles and the psychological principles of conflict resolution.
Having achieved success, Josephine is committed to giving back to the community through engaging her mediation skills. For over a decade, Josephine has served as the lead trainer for peer mediation training programs for secondary and primary school students to groom a next generation of peacemakers. She aspires to spread peace and harmony by instilling a mediator mindset in youngsters.
Jacky Lai
Trainer
Jacky Lai is Director and Chairperson of the General Mediation Division of HKMC. As a veteran ADR professional having mediated over 850 cases, Jacky has trained mediation in universities and professional groups in business, personal injury, insurance, banking, and family settings. Jacky’s training repertoire runs the entire dispute management continuum, from dispute prevention, negotiation, mediation, arbitration, adjudication, to litigation. For more than 16 years, Jacky has a full practice as a barrister where he successfully assists clients to resolve all kinds of disputes. Currently he serves as an accredited mediator on both the General and Family panels of HKIAC and Hong Kong Mediation Accreditation Association Limited.
