31 Aug Texas 40-Hour Basic Mediation Training August 31- Sept 4 2026 Texas 40-Hour Basic Mediation Training August 31- Sept 4 2026 Monday, August 31, 2026 (12:00 AM) to Friday, September 4, 2026 (11:59 PM) 40 PDCs Provider: Conflict Management Institute Course Name: Texas 40-Hour Basic Mediation Training Speaker: Faith Knight Program Type: Instructor E-Learning Registration URL: https://conflictmanagementinstitute.org/s/shrm-tx-40hr Texas 40-Hour Basic Mediation Training August 31- Sept 4 2026, Tulsa, Oklahoma Email Details Upon successful completion of this program, participants will be able to: Apply the Texas Chapter 154 statutory framework to correctly define confidentiality boundaries and the scope of a mediator's authority in a civil dispute. Execute the 9-Step Mediation Architecture to guide a dispute from opening statement through a signed, enforceable agreement. Apply interest-based questioning techniques to reframe adversarial positions into negotiable interests and de-escalate hostile conversation. Facilitate negotiation between opposing parties to reach a durable, mutually acceptable resolution, including drafting clear settlement terms. Identify personal and structural bias in themselves and apply neutrality safeguards when facilitating disputes involving power imbalances between parties. Mediate employment-related disputes, including termination and workplace grievance scenarios, using a structured, neutral, legally defensible process. Mediate commercial, property, construction, and probate disputes, applying a consistent neutral framework across varied civil case types. Identify the ethical boundaries of neutral practice under the TMCA Code of Ethics, including confidentiality breaches, mandatory disclosure obligations, and conflicts of interest. Evaluate the legal and liability risk created by informal, undocumented conflict resolution and apply risk-mitigation strategies drawn from formal mediation practice. Apply de-escalation and emotional-management techniques to facilitate sessions involving intense grief, anger, or betrayal without losing control of the process. Develop a professional practice plan, including positioning, referral-network strategy, and stakeholder trust-building for delivering mediation or internal neutral services. Independently facilitate a comprehensive, cross-case-type mediation simulation from intake to resolution, demonstrating mastery of the full mediation process. Details You're Registered! DescriptionLocation Texas 40-Hour Basic Civil Mediation Training | Live Virtual Intensive August 31 – September 4, 2026 | Monday–Friday | 8:00 AM–5:00 PM CST Stop Playing the Referee. Become the Neutral. Every HR professional already knows this feeling: you're standing between two people who are furious at each other, trying to hold the whole thing together with a mix of policy language and hope. You're doing the work of a mediator without the training, the framework, or the legal protection of one. And when a dispute gets serious enough, "I've handled conflict before" isn't the same as "I am a credentialed neutral." This is the week that closes that gap. The Texas 40-Hour Basic Civil Mediation Training is CMI's flagship program — the same statute-compliant, TMCA-eligible foundation that practicing attorneys and career mediators use to become credentialed neutrals in the state of Texas. For one week, HR leaders sit in the same room as attorneys, business owners, and future full-time mediators, and walk out having actually mediated real, complex disputes — not watched a slideshow about them. And because it's 40 hours, it does something no other program in our catalog can: it clears 40 SHRM PDCs in five days. That's more than two-thirds of an entire three-year recertification cycle, done and dusted before the following Monday. Why This Week Is Different From Every Other "Certificate" You've Sat Through Most conflict resolution training is theory-heavy and practice-light: a few case studies, a multiple-choice quiz, a PDF certificate. This is the opposite. You will spend the majority of five full days actually in the mediator's chair, running real, complex disputes drawn from CMI's bank of 11 Representative Practice Scenarios — employment terminations, partnership dissolutions, HOA blowups, construction disputes, insurance fights, probate battles, and more — with a live instructor coaching you through it in real time. You will not leave this week knowing about mediation. You will leave having done it, repeatedly, under pressure, with feedback, until it's muscle memory. What You'll Walk Away With The Credential: A completed 40-hour educational foundation that satisfies Texas Mediator Credentialing Association (TMCA) eligibility requirements under Chapter 154 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code — a real, state-recognized qualification, not an internal designation. The Skill Set: Command of the full 9-Step Mediation Architecture, from opening statement to signed agreement, plus the tactical questioning and de-escalation techniques that turn "I'll see you in court" into a signed resolution in the same room. The Ethics: A working, practiced understanding of the ethical red lines that govern neutral practice — confidentiality, disclosure, conflicts of interest — so you can operate with confidence instead of guessing where the line is. The Self-Awareness: A hard look at your own bias and "filters," and the tools to stay genuinely neutral when facilitating between parties with unequal power — critical for anyone facilitating disputes inside their own organization. The Credit: 40 SHRM Professional Development Credits toward SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP recertification, and 40 HR General credit hours pre-approved through HRCI. Who This Week Is Built For HR Directors and Employee Relations professionals who are tired of managing conflict informally and want the authority, process, and legal grounding of a trained neutral. HR leaders who would rather knock out most of a three-year recertification cycle in one focused week than chase small credits one webinar at a time. In-house counsel and compliance professionals who run workplace investigations and need a defensible, structured process behind every difficult conversation. Attorneys, career changers, and anyone building toward a second career or consulting practice as a Texas mediator. Why Live, and Why This Matters This program runs live, five consecutive days, camera-on, cohort-based — never on-demand. Mediation is not a skill you can learn from a video. It requires real feedback, in the moment, from a real instructor watching you handle a real disagreement. Every credit hour in this program corresponds to time you actually spent doing the work, which is exactly what gives this credential its weight. Certification is earned through full attendance and active participation in the live simulations — there's no written exam. If you can successfully mediate a dispute in front of your instructor and your peers by Friday afternoon, you've already proven you're ready. Your Instructor Faith Knight is a Texas Distinguished Credentialed Mediator — the highest designation the TMCA awards — with more than 20 years of experience and over 1,000 successful mediations behind her. She holds a Master of Science in Human Resources and Business, and is also certified by the Oklahoma and Florida Supreme Courts. Faith built her reputation on a simple idea: mediation is a legal process, but it's a human one first. Expect a week that's practical, direct, and free of jargon for its own sake. Space Is Capped Because every participant rotates through live role-play and gets direct instructor coaching, seats in this cohort are limited to keep the coaching ratio high. If you've been meaning to move from "the person who handles conflict" to "the credentialed neutral in the room," this is the week to do it. August 31 – September 4, 2026. Five days. 40 credits. One credential that doesn't expire when the training ends. Texas 40-Hour Basic Mediation Training August 31- Sept 4 2026 Texas 40-Hour Basic Mediation Training August 31- Sept 4 20262510 E 15th St Ste 118Tulsa, OK 74104-4634 Map & Directions