“The mediation process is an extraordinarily powerful tool built on the proposition that if people are afforded the opportunity to truly listen to each other, understand one another’s needs, and participate in making decisions affecting their futures, conflicts can be de-escalated and resolved entirely.”
— Bruce Edwards, Founder & Lead Instructor
Bruce Edwards has spent more than 40 years in the mediation room, resolving over 8,000 disputes across the United States and around the world. In 2014, he founded Edwards Mediation Academy with a single goal: to share what actually works, taught by the people who built the field.
EMA is not a lecture series. Our courses put you inside a real mediation with Bruce Edwards, unscripted, unedited, and with real emotions. Then you hear from 17 of the most respected practitioners in dispute resolution: how they do it, when and why they make the decisions they do. You learn by watching decisions get made in real time, not by reading about them afterward.
To make world-class mediation training accessible to everyone who needs it, taught by the practitioners who built the field.
EMA courses are designed for lawyers and litigators, judges, practicing mediators, and business professionals who want to add mediation to their work or build a career around it. Whether you are just starting out or ready to take on more complex cases, there is a course built for where you are.
Our instructors are not academics. They are the practitioners who shaped how mediation is taught and practiced worldwide. Every course carries CLE credit approved by the California State Bar, with reciprocal approval in many states, and is backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee.
What no other program offers: the opportunity to virtually shadow Bruce Edwards through a complete, real mediation. Unscripted, unedited, from opening statement to signed agreement. You see every decision, every turning point, and every technique in context. Not a role play. Not a simulation. The real thing.
