Pathway to Becoming a Registered Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner
This program is tailored for those seeking qualification as Family Dispute Resolution Practitioners (Family Law Mediators) registered through the Australian Attorney General’s Department. The course equips you with essential skills to handle parenting, financial, and property disputes after family separation.

Eligibility for Direct Entry
Direct entry is available for those with degrees in law, psychology, social work, or dispute resolution. Applicants with industry experience in dispute resolution or NMAS/AMDRAS accreditation may also qualify.

Note on Counselling Degrees
Counselling degrees are not direct prerequisites; those with such qualifications may need evidence of dispute resolution experience to pursue the course’s core units.

Deliverer through a training partnership with RTO Inspiritive 21178. All training and assessments are provided by Mediation Institute. Quality Control and Validation provided by Inspiritive. 

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Why Choose Mi's CHC81115 - Graduate Diploma of Family Dispute Resolution course.

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No Mandatory Workshops

Flexible Online Participation
You can join the course from anywhere—home, office, or even while travelling—using the internet and video meeting technology. You’ll need a computer with a webcam, audio, and, ideally, a headset. While smartphones and tablets work for video meetings, a computer is best for coursework and FDR role-plays.

Optional Webinars and Q&A
Regular webinars and Q&A sessions are offered, but they’re optional, allowing you to fit learning into your schedule and other responsibilities.

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Who is this course for?

Become a Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner
This course is designed for those aiming to become Family Dispute Resolution Practitioners registered with the Australian Attorney General’s Department. You’ll gain the skills and knowledge needed to conduct pre-mediation and mediation for clients navigating parenting, financial, and property settlements post-separation.

Flexible, Year-Round Enrollment
Enrol at any time and progress at your own pace, with a scheduled break from role-play activities over the December/January holidays.

Ready to Begin?
Join when you’re ready and start your journey toward a meaningful career in family dispute resolution.

Couse information Guide

 

Need Help Deciding on the Course?
We are currently updating our Course Information Guide to accommodate some changes we are making to our course. 

Changes include: 

1. The ability to enrol in single units of competence 

2. A fast track program for students who have the support of a FDR workplace

3. New and improved Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) process. 

This is especially relevant for: 

  • legacy FDRP’s who want to have their current skills recognised in the form of the CHC8115 – Graduate Diploma of Family Dispute Resolution 
  • registrars who are providing FDR services within the family court but do not have the FDR qualification 
  • people who have extensive experience in some of the non-core units of competence that make up the Graduate Diploma Qualification. This may be relevant for people who hold a core units equivalent qualification from a higher education provider and experience in FDR. 

We will provide full information in sumarised format in our 2025 course information guide but if you have any questions, call us at 1300 781 533, visit our Contact Us page to send a message, or chat with us directly through our website.

Single Unit Enrolment - CHCFAM001 - Operate in a Family Law Environment 

Empower Your Practice: Choose Your Path with this single-unit FDRP Introduction or Refresher.
The Family Law System has undergone significant changes over the past few years. This unit is updated to align with recent amendments to the Family Law Act 1975.

It is a core unit in the CHC81115 Graduate Diploma of Family Dispute Resolution, and you can choose to complete the training as Professional Development only (without assessment and a Statement of Attainment) or enrol with our Partnered Registered Training Organisation and earn a Statement of Attainment.

What are the step to becoming a FDR Practitioner?

CHC81115 - GRADUATE DIPLOMA OF FDR steps to FDRP registration with MI

What is the Delivery Model?

Immediate Start
You can start your course as soon as you’re enrolled—there is no waiting or delayed timeline. We support individualised learning so you can move at your own pace. Generally we allow 30 days from the end of the month for single units with the option to extend if needed. This would allow 10 months to complete the full course plus whatever time you need to complete your work placement. 

Fully Online Learning
Training and assessment are online. Your mandatory work placements can be either online or in person. Online service delivery of FDR is now widely practiced and accepted by clients throughout Australia.   You MUST physically be in Australia when working with clients during your work placement.

Theory and Skills Development
Access comprehensive online resources, recorded webinars, live webinars (where possible), and assessments to ensure you’re equipped with the necessary knowledge. Develop practical skills through live, mentored video mediation role-plays with expert guidance from our training team.

Real Work Placement Experience
Gain real-world experience through 50 hours of work placement, with opportunities to assist a minimum of 5 families in managing parenting, property, or family violence matters.

Unlike other providers, we ensure that work placement involves direct client engagement as a FDR intern not just observing or role-plays alone.

Course Duration

Flexible Course Duration
Allowing 30 days for each unit you can complete the course in 6 months for the Core Units or 10 months for the full qualification.

It is likely that your work placement may add additional time to this depending on how you arrange it e.g. 1 day a week, 1 client at a time or working 9 – 5!

Self-Paced and Accelerated Options
With a flexible, self-paced format, you can complete the course faster based on your time and commitment. You’re not restricted by the pace of other students and can access content whenever suits you best.

Competency-Based Progression
You’ll need to demonstrate competency in role-plays before starting your work placement. The number of role-plays varies based on your progress, with personalised feedback provided after each.

Up to Two Years for Completion
The standard expectation is that you will complete the qualification within 12 months however we allow up to 2 years to complete the studies as many of our students are fitting study in around work and care duties.

If you require longer than 2 years there is a continuation fee and a need to commit to progress expectations. 

Pre-Requisites - website

Pre-Requisites

Enrolment Requirements for Family Dispute Resolution Course
To enrol, you must meet one of the following:

  • Hold a degree in Psychology, Social Work, Law, Conflict Management, Dispute Resolution, or Family Law Mediation.
  • Be NMAS-accredited.
  • Have completed the Mediation skill set from the CHC Community Services Training Package.
  • Show recent experience in a dispute resolution role, with a letter from a current or recent employer as proof.

Counselling degrees are not accepted for direct entry; candidates may need NMAS accreditation or proof of dispute resolution experience. If prerequisites aren’t met, completing the NMAS course  is an alternative.

Single Unit Option

We now have the option to start your studies while you are completing your pre-requisite or taking a smaller first step. 

Enrolling now – single unit with Training and Assessment for: 

Course content is delivered via eLearning. Course Units are:

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to determine and respond to family law requirements, work collaboratively within the family law system, and contribute to improved work practices linked to family law.

The three elements that you will demonstrate competence in are:

  1. Determine and respond to family law requirements
  2. Collaborate with others in the family law system
  3. Contribute to workplace improvements

Performance Evidence

There must be evidence that the candidate has:

  1. correctly applied family law to at least 5 different client situations, that individually or cumulatively include needs relating to domestic and family violence/safety, finance, property, children, relationship conflict
  2. demonstrated effective use of the following in the context of family law. Systems and processes, documentation, reporting and collaboration with others in the system
  3. developed appropriate responses to at least 5 different legal or ethical dilemmas in the family law context
  4. identified and analysed at least 3 work practices in terms of how they meet family law responsibilities and what improvements could be made.

During the course you will demonstrate competence in role plays and simulations and then apply them in the workplace. If you are completing this unit as a stand alone course it is acceptable for all assessment to be completed in a simulated environment that simulates workplace conditions.

Delivery

This unit is delivered as part of our Core Units Course which is made of the six core units.

It is now also available as a single unit of competence for those wanting to use it as professional development or a first step into the Grad. Dip. FDR. Find out more about enrolling in the single unit.

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to prepare for and facilitate the family dispute resolution process with the aim of assisting families to reach mutual agreement on issues related to relationships, children, property and assets.

It requires the ability to use mediation, conciliation, facilitation and conferencing skills.

The eight elements you will demonstrate competence in are:

  1. Determine suitability for dispute resolution
  2. Prepare for dispute resolution
  3. Assist participants to define and clarify the issues
  4. Facilitate communication and information exchange
  5. Invite the framing of the disputes to increase the range of options
  6. Encourage mutual personal understanding between participants
  7. Assist participants to generate and evaluate options
  8. Confirm and document outcomes and agreements

Performance Evidence

This is a very large and complex unit of competence. To be assessed as competent there must be evidence that you have completed the tasks identified above in a way that complies with legal requirements and ethical standards during a period of 50 hours of dispute resolution work with clients under the supervision of an accredited Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner in a dispute resolution service.

That includes:

Facilitating individually or in a co-facilitation capacity at least 5 different dispute resolution processes that individually or cumulatively include matters relating to domestic and family violence, child abuse and child protection, finances including child support, property.

You will expect to facilitate disputes involving multiple parties, voluntary participants and involuntary participant and including manage sessions where all the parties are present and shuttle situations

There is a detailed list of skills you will be required to demonstrate including dispute diagnostic skills, applied relationship skills, interpersonal communication skills, facilitation skills, critical thinking and content management skills and the ability to facilitate a fair and structured mediation process.

Practical Assessment

You will be participating in a number of role plays to develop your skills before you are able to participate in your work placement to ensure that you and your future clients are protected.

Delivery

This unit is delivered as part of our Core Units Course which is made of the six core units.

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to determine ethical responsibilities, apply ethical standards to the dispute resolution process and reflect on ethical practice.

The three elements you will demonstrate competence in are:

  1. Determine ethical responsibilities
  2. Apply ethical standards to the dispute resolution process
  3. Reflect on ethical practice

Performance Evidence

This unit requires that you demonstrate your ability to work within the legal and ethical requirements of the role during a period of 50 hours of dispute resolution work with clients under the supervision of an accredited family dispute resolution practitioner in a dispute resolution service. You will also be required to develop responses for at least 5 different complex ethical dilemmas in family dispute resolution practice.

Practical Assessment

You will be assessed against your ability to uphold your legal and ethical obligations in all of the role plays you participate in to develop your skills before you are able to participate in your work placement to ensure that you and your future clients are protected.

Delivery

This unit is delivered as part of our Core Units Course which is made of the six core units.

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to assess the suitability of the dispute resolution process for vulnerable parties and the support the physical and emotional protection of those parties. 

The three elements you will demonstrate competence in are:

  1. Assess the needs of vulnerable parties 
  2. Take measures to protect vulnerable parties
  3. Manage situations that threaten safety

Performance Evidence

This unit requires mandatory work placement evidence before you can be assessed as competent.

That includes:

Facilitating individually or in a co-facilitation capacity at least 5 different dispute resolution processes that individually or cumulatively include matters relating to domestic and family violence, mental health issues, alcohol and other drugs abuse and vulnerabilities associated with peoples cultural and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

You will be required to manage sessions where all parties are present and in a shuttle situation.

Practical Assessment

You will be participating in a number of role plays to develop your skills before you are able to participate in your work placement to ensure that you and your future clients are protected.

Delivery

This unit is delivered as part of our Family Dispute Resolution Cluster training unit which is made up of this unit, the other two core Family Dispute Resolution Units of Competence and CHCFAM001 – Operate in a Family Law Environment.

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to manage responses to family violence in domestic and family violence in family work.

The five elements you will demonstrate competence in are:

  1. Analyse the impact of domestic and family violence on family work
  2. Work within the legal context of domestic and family violence
  3. Implement organisation procedures that support family members to cease violent, controlling, intimidating and belittling behaviour
  4. Implement organisation procedures to promote safety for family members who are subject to violence
  5. Align service interventions to specific clients

Performance Evidence

This unit requires mandatory work placement evidence before you can be assessed as competent.

That includes:

Deliver services to at least 3 people affected by domestic and family violence.

You are also required to conduct research into the theoretical perspectives that underpin work with people affected by domestic and family violence, sourcing and analysing information from multiple credible sources.

It is required that you work with users of violence, victims of violence, families and colleagues from other services.

Some of the skills you will demonstrate when working with victims of family violence include goal setting and strategy development, questioning and active listening, counselling skills and relationship building skills.

Practical Assessment

Skills must be demonstrated in the workplace.

You will be participating in a number of role plays to develop your skills before you are able to participate in your work placement to ensure that you and your future clients are protected.

Delivery

This unit is delivered as a stand alone unit in our learning management system however it is assessed concurrently during your work placement.

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to use, support and evaluate child-focused approaches in service delivery in the context of family law. A key tenet of the family law system and associated service provision is acting and promoting the best interests of the child.

The four elements you will demonstrate competence in are:

  1. Make child needs central to service provision
  2. Support parents to maintain child focused approaches
  3. Respond to situations requiring child inclusive process
  4. Monitor and evaluate child-focused practice

Performance Evidence

This unit does not require mandatory work placement evidence before you can be assessed as competent however your ability to support a child focused approach will be assessed as part of your work placement.

That includes:

That you consistently apply the concepts and intention of working in the child’s best interests as stated in the Family Law Act 1975 in the planning, provision and monitoring of services to at least 3 families with children experiencing conflict

That you respond appropriately to situations where:

  • the child is vulnerable or at risk
  • there is a requirement for child inclusive practice.

Practical Assessment

You will be participating in a number of role plays to develop your skills and may undertake safety planning or review safety plans during your work placement. 

Delivery

This unit is delivered as a stand alone unit in our learning management system however it is assessed concurrently during your work placement.

The elective units in the CHC81115 – Graduate Diploma of Family Dispute Resolution are more general in nature.

If you feel that you already hold units of competence at the Graduate Diploma level in a relevant area or significant, recent, high level workplace experience in relevant skills area you may be eligible for recognition of current competence (if you possess a current unit of competence that is relevant) or recognition of prior learning if you have formal or informal training and recent workplace experience sufficient to provide evidence of competence.

Holders of the CHC80308 – Graduate Diploma of Family Dispute Resolution are not eligible for recognition of current competence as that course has been superseded and is not equivalent. The CHC81115 has a mandatory 50 hours of work placement so if you can demonstrate that you hold the old qualification and are conducting FDR you could be eligible for a RPL upgrade to the new qualification.

Find out more about our Recognition of Prior Learning Process.

You would not usually be able to get recognition of prior learning for the core units of this qualification because they apply to the work of a family dispute resolution practitioner which you can not legally do unless you are accredited with the Australian Attorney Generals Department. Unaccredited mediators who provide parenting and property mediation do not do so under the requirements of the Family Law Act 1975 so they will not have evidence of the legal and ethical requirements of a FDRP in order to gain RPL. Although some applicants work as intake workers in FDR services who use unaccredited practitioners to fulfil part of the role that is described in this qualification for FDRP’s there is not a single unit that only deals with intake work. 

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to assess the vulnerabilities of people who have been subjected to domestic and family violence, and to work collaboratively with those people to develop implement and review safety plans.

The three elements you will demonstrate competence in are:

  1. Assess vulnerabilities and their impact on safety
  2. Implement safety planning procedures
  3. Review safety planning procedures

Performance Evidence

This unit requires that the skills have been demonstrated in the workplace or in a simulated environment. It is possible you will complete the assessment requirements during your work placement but if not you will complete with role plays.
The requirements are:

  • developed and documented safety plans that take account of legal requirements and specific vulnerabilities, with and for at least 3 people who have been subjected to domestic and family violence
  • reviewed at least 2 different safety plans based on client and broader network feedback
  • used interpersonal communication skills to establish and maintain trusting relationships,

Practical Assessment

You will assist clients to understand and make use of safety planing in a supportive and empowering way. 

Delivery

This unit is delivered as a part of the elective units cluster which is made up of the four elective units.  

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to work with and engage users of violence to assist them to take responsibility for their violence, and to work towards changing their behaviour and enhancing the safety of their family.

The four elements you will demonstrate competence in are:

  1. Establish and maintain professional relationship
  2. Assess capacity for change
  3. Encourage personal responsibility
  4. Monitor and review progress

Performance Evidence

This unit requires that the skills have been demonstrated in the workplace or in a simulated environment. 

The requirements are:

  • worked with at least 3 users of violence and provided appropriate support to family members according to organisation, legal and ethical requirements
  • established, documented and monitored agreements with users of violence that include goals, strategies and outcomes.
  • used the following interpersonal communication techniques appropriately with users of domestic violence questioning and active listening, paraphrasing, clarifying, summarising, relationship and rapport building, challenging and supportive feedback and conflict de-escalation / resolution techniques.

Practical Assessment

You will participate role plays and also work with users of violence during your work placement.  

The evidence required is that you are able to identify users of violence, explain the behavioural ground rules for mediation and maintain a safe and fair process should mediation proceed.  This will include using shuttle mediation and also mediator facilitated negotiation simulations.

Delivery

This unit is delivered in our electives course which is made up of the four electives we have chosen.

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to assess parenting practice, then work with parents to prepare and monitor parenting plans and arrangements.

The three elements you will demonstrate competence in are:

  1. Assess current parenting practices
  2. Assist clients to agree on outcomes for parenting arrangements
  3. Monitor parenting arrangements

Performance Evidence

This unit requires that the skills have been demonstrated in the workplace or in a simulated environment. 

The requirements are:

  • Adhered to legal requirements for both process and outcome to assist at least 3 families with different circumstances to develop parenting arrangements that compromise a documented risk assessment, are in the best interests of the child, consider the complexities of relationships both in and out of the immediate family environment and set in place monitoring arrangements.

Practical Assessment

You will participate role plays and may provide post separation pre-mediation coaching, parallel parenting coaching and co-parenting coaching to parents as part of your work placement.  

The evidence required is that you are able to work with high conflict families to develop, review and update parenting arrangements. 

Generally this would be in the context of negotiating a Parenting Plan to replace Parenting Orders that are no longer working for family members, especially the child.

Delivery

This unit is delivered in our electives course which is made up of the four electives we have chosen.

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to analyse own values, goals and professional well-being as part of an ongoing review for sustaining professional effectiveness. It includes the ability to create a professional development plan that incorporates strategies to enhance the coherence and effectiveness of practice.

The four elements you will demonstrate competence in are:

  1. Review professional goals and values
  2. Review effectiveness of practice
  3. Maintain professional wellbeing
  4. Sustain professional effectiveness

Performance Evidence

This unit requires that the skills have been demonstrated in the workplace or in a simulated environment. You will be required to complete a number of activities including during your work placement and on your own initiative. 

The requirements are:

  • engage in a structured process of critical analysis and professional reflection that includes:
    • evidence based analysis of your own values, goals, current practice and their coherence
    • research of current and emerging best practice, trends and skills requirements
    • creation of a professional development plan that includes strategies to enhance effectiveness and coherence of practice
  • develop strategies to address at least three (3) different professional practice issues.

Practical Assessment

You will be required to participate in industry networking / professional development events with practitioners and develop your own professional development plan for your first year of professional practice taking into account the requirements of the unit and the profession.

Delivery

This unit is delivered in our electives course which is made up of the four electives we have chosen.

FAQs

To enrol, you must have one of the following:

  • A degree in Psychology, Social Work, Law, Conflict Management, Dispute Resolution, Family Law Mediation, or an equivalent field.
  • NMAS accreditation.
  • The Mediation skill set from the CHC Community Services Training Package.
  • Recent experience in a dispute resolution role, with a letter from an employer as evidence.

If prerequisites aren’t met, completing the NMAS course can serve as a pathway to eligibility.

The Student Handbook outlines the terms and conditions for our training programs, detailing policies, procedures, and expectations to ensure a smooth learning experience.

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For details about the course, mediation work, or a career as a Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner, call us at 1300 781 533 or request a callback via email. If you have concerns about video mediation or your tech setup, we can arrange a video meeting to help assess compatibility.

This course is fully online, so there’s no need to travel. Join tutorials, role-plays, supervision, and other activities from home or the office, saving on travel and accommodation costs and minimising disruptions to your family.

Absolutely. If you would like to participate as an observer or in one of our tutorials we would be happy to arrange it. Contact us to discuss.

As soon as you join the course you can book in for a video orientation meeting. This is to walk you through the learning management system and make sure that your technology is working. 

You can also register to join us on one of our webinars or web meetings – Mi Event Calendar

Our course requires participation in video mediation, and it will not be suitable for those who are unwilling to use this technology. We believe that video mediation is essential for the future of the industry, enabling remote service delivery and ensuring the wellbeing of clients. By incorporating video mediation into the training, we aim to build your skills and confidence in this method of providing professional services, preparing you for the evolving landscape of dispute resolution.

Mediation Institute requires a 50-hour work placement with real clients to ensure students gain practical, real-world experience. While other providers may substitute role-plays for work placement, we believe this shortchanges learners, especially those without prior family law experience.
 

Students can arrange their own work placement through connections with Family Dispute Resolution services or practitioners, or they may receive support from local Family Relationship Centers, especially in regional areas.

We may be able to assist with introductions. 

For those without connections, Mediation Institute has arranged for  placement opportunities through Interact Support Incorporated, a social enterprise style not-for-profit founded by our directors.

A supervision fee is payable to Interact Support.  

Our Work Placement Agreement is required before you commence your work placement and this ensures insurance coverage and sets clear expectations for the placement.

Mediation Institute emphasises the importance of real-world experience in Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) training. Unlike some other providers that may rely more heavily on role-plays, our program requires a 50-hour work placement with real clients under the supervision of a registered FDR practitioner. This hands-on experience, added in 2015, is critical for developing practical skills, confidence, and readiness for a career as an FDR practitioner.

While we advocate for regulatory standards that protect qualification integrity, our focus remains on delivering high-quality training and robust student support. Simulations serve as valuable training and assessment tools, but they cannot fully replace the depth of real workplace experience.

Finding the right training provider for Family Dispute Resolution can be challenging. Mediation Institute partners with Registered Training Organisation (RTO) Inspiritive, which manages compliance, while Mediation Institute handles course design, delivery, and assessment.

When comparing programs, consider:

  • the full cost (including interest and if you are using fee help government charges) 
  • whether you are comparing a course that is only equivalent to the core units (some core units courses are named to seem like they are the graduate diploma but they are not)
  • if the course is not the full graduate diploma will your other qualifications allow you to register as a FDRP? 

You can check with the practitioner registration department Becoming a family dispute resolution practitioner | Attorney-General’s Department or speak with our director – contact us

A lot! We need to help you to develop your skills and assess your competence through role plays. This may take a number of role plays to achieve. 

As a minimum you’ll need to pass assessment in: 

  1. Parenting Pre-Mediation – demonstrating complying with your obligations, risk screening and helping the client to prepare for FDR. 
  2. Property Pre-Mediation – demonstrating complying with your obligations including screeing for risks and suitability including financial abuse, helping the client to understand the requirements for property settlements including full disclosure, helping the client to prepare for mediation including tasks to complete prior to joint mediation sessions.   
  3. Parenting Mediation – facilitating with a facilitative approach (parties speaking directly) and shuttle mediation (unless you provide work placement evidence showing competence in shuttle) 
  4. Property Mediation  – demonstrating your ability to competently facilitate property settlement negotiations. 
  5.  Child Inclusive Mediation – working with a child inclusive practitioner to assist parents with parenting negotiations. 

You will be required to participate as a role player and we encourage you to also observe role plays.  

Hope that helps. We can’t be more precise than that as it depends on you and your learning style.

The course is competency based which means that we have the responsibility under the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) Standards to provide training, assessment and support services that meet your individual needs.

We take this responsibility seriously and do offer individualised training and assessment.

Assessment is a process not a one off exam. It is a series of tasks and activities that allow you to learn and apply new skills. You will be required to repeat tasks such as FDR mediation role plays until you have demonstrated competence across all aspects of the process in a variety of different scenarios. 

If you are not able to pass your assessment role plays in two attempts and after mentoring we will arrange a meeting with a senior trainer to review your progress and work with you on a strategy to resolve the issues you are having with acquiring the skills. 

NMAS / AMDRAS Accreditation is a possible pre-requisite to allow you to enrol in the CHC81115 – Graduate Diploma of Family Dispute Resolution but it does not allow you credits or any recognition of prior learning.

No you can not get credits for “property mediation” training delivered as part of a basic mediation training.

The mediator accreditation course is a short course that is not delivered under Vocational Education and Training standards.  

We don’t understand how anyone can claim that is adequate to teach property mediation to any level of competence in the short duration of the course and definitely do not recognise it as being equivalent to Graduate Diploma level training.

A law degree is one of the possible pre-requisites to allow you to enrol in this course but it does not allow you credits or any recognition of prior learning.

The role of a lawyer and that of a family dispute resolution practitioner are very different.

Lawyers advise and advocate and can have only one party to a dispute as a client.

FDR Practitioners facilitate and don’t advocate or provide legal advice. They work with both sides of a dispute in a way that is neutral and independent.

No. Government loans tend to push the price of courses up. While the loan may defer payment they do not make your studies free. They also have fees and charges that continue to increase the cost of the course as long as you have not finished paying back your debt.

Make sure you do your due diligence and ask the full cost of the course with the loan fees applied if you are considering one of those loans.

We are able to offer interest free flexible payment terms so the amount you pay is the course fee and nothing more.

Our RTO has also arranged education finance which will allow you to extend the repayment of the course beyond the completion time if you want to pay off over a longer term.   Education Finance.

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CHC81115 Course Guide

If you need something in writing for your funding request you can download our CHC8115 Graduate Diploma of Family Dispute Resolution Course Guide. This comprehensive document covers all the important information about this course. 

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Meet Our Supportive Training Team

All team members are Registered Family Dispute Resolution Practitioners.

Joanne Law

Cynthia Brooking(BG)

Cynthia Brooking

Ken Speakman

Ken Speakman

Lee Lee (BG)

Lee Lee

Joanne Croxton

Joanne Croxton CIP

Cheryl Bryan

Cheryl Bryan

Ange

Ange Beasley

Sheree

Sheree Anderson

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CHC81115 Enrolment Form

If you are ready to enrol, you can download the enrolment form here. The Registered Training Organisation (RTO) is Inspiritive. 

All training and assessments are written and provided by Mediation Institute. 

CHC81115 - Graduate Diploma of Family Dispute Resolution

Includes training and assessment. Supervision for your work placement is extra if provided by Mediation Institute.
$ 11,345 Ask about an interest free payment plan.*
  • Expected completion 12 months (up to 24 months to complete)
  • Self-Paced online learning, video tutorials and live video mentored role plays as many as you need for competence
  • 50 hours work placement with the opportunity for more with real clients. We can provide the placement supervision for an additional fee
  • Interest Free Payment Plan available - $1,500 deposit and then 7 to 11 monthly instalments. Alternative payment arrangements by negotiation

Core Units CHC81115 - Graduate Diploma of Family Dispute Resolution

Only recommended if you have one of the mandated qualifications
$ 8375 Ask about an interest free payment plan.*
  • Expected completion 9 months (up to 24 months to complete)
  • Self-Paced online learning, video tutorials and live video mentored role plays as many as you need for competence
  • 50 hours work placement with the opportunity for more with real clients. We can provide the placement supervision for an additional fee
  • Interest Free Payment Plan available - $1,500 deposit and then 7 to 11 monthly instalments. Alternative payment arrangements by negotiation
  • Conditions will apply to FDR Accreditation with core units only if you don't have one of the specified degrees

RPL - Per Unit Rate

This assessment only proces requires current evidence of competence
$ 385 per unit
  • Assessment Only - you must have recent evidence of workplace application to be granted recognition of prior learning
  • We can consider RPL applications for any unit of competence in the FDR Qualification, not just the ones we train.
  • Recognition of Current Competence for Current units of competence held is fee free. Contact us to discuss if you think you are eligible due to relevant current qualifications such as the Grad. Dip. Relationships Counselling.
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