There is a variety of training seminars currently scheduled and the list is continually updated. If you have a training program you believe will benefit you as a mediator, you can contact the coordinator to determine whether it can be pre-approved or even approved after you have taken it. It must specifically improve your abilities in the area in which you are certified to mediate in Kansas courts. Approval for these programs can be obtained in a way similar to obtaining approval for regular continuing education. Government agencies, absent regulatory or statutory reference to either the Dispute Resolution Act or Supreme Court rules, are not mandated to follow the standards, although certain types of cases may be mediated under the Dispute Resolution Act.
Agencies are free to have higher standards for mediators and set individual guidelines.
If agency mediators are also attorneys, previous discussion of how the Model Rules of Professional Conduct affect the attorney-mediator should be considered.