Settlement Conference Panelist Training - Spring 2026

Get ready to learn how to mediate settlement conferences in this online training session!

Settlement Conference Panelist Training

Join our complimentary online course exclusively for attorneys to refresh your skills and learn how to become a settlement conference mediator at the Center for Dialog & Resolution. Attorneys have the power to help people avoid court by resolving conflict through a settlement conference mediation.

This 4-Hour Settlement Conference Panelist Training includes:

• Directive vs evaluative mediation skills
• Best practices: joint session v shuttle
• Professional mediator standards of conduct & Rules of Professional Conduct 2.4
• Managing when one side is Pro Se
• Uniform Mediation Act RCW 7.07

We provide facilitated Settlement Conferences for both District Court and Superior Court. Each case at the Center is facilitated by volunteer attorneys and mediators skilled in evaluative mediation practices.