Family Mediation Training: Exploring Best Practices in Family Mediation

This hands-on five-day live virtual course (two consecutive weekends Friday/Saturday/Sunday/Friday/Saturday) presents advanced skills, concepts and techniques unique to family mediation. The course is taught by Robert Hughes and Tracy Leissner. Contingent on sufficient enrollment, the training is offered once a year, usually late spring, and gives 33 MCLE credit hours including 5 hours of ethics. Registration includes access to the statutory domestic violence modules.

Exploring Best Practices in Family Mediation introduces family mediation as a method of resolving disputes in marital dissolution, conservatorship, property division, parentage and suits affecting the parent-child relationship (SAPCR).

The program is designed to meet training standards promulgated by Texas Chapter 154, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, and the Texas Mediation Trainers Roundtable. It is also designed to conform to ABA, ACR, AFCC and TMCA family mediation model standards and Texas Supreme Court/Texas State Bar ADR Section ethical guidelines.

Prerequisites and Course Details

Trainees must satisfy prerequisites of a 40 Hour Basic Mediation Training, preferably within the past three years at A.A. White, mediation experience, and Child Custody Mediator Training, Modules 1, 2 and 3 available through the Texas Council on Family Violence (TCFV). The program is hands-on, fast-paced, interactive and presented live virtually.

Course Directors: Robert Hughes and Tracy Leissner
MCLE: 33 hours including 5 hours ethics
Format: Five-day live virtual training over two consecutive weekends
Course Location: Live virtual training. For more information, call the A.A. White Dispute Resolution Center at 713-743-2066.

Most recently listed session: April 24-26 & May 1-2, 2026. Future family mediation training is contingent on sufficient enrollment and is usually offered in late spring.