The special interest collaboratives allow mediators within specific practice areas to connect with one another and address areas of interest to their specific practice area. Each collaborative will be made up of members who voluntarily elect to participate in a collaborative. Each collaborative will be led by a President appointed by the Board of Directors of American Association of Mediators. Appointments will be for 2-year terms. The President of each collaborative will be responsible for providing information and networking opportunities to the membership of the collaborative and soliciting information from the collaborative’s membership on topics of their interest.
Commercial Collaborative
This collaborative provides information and networking opportunities to mediators who work to resolve commercial and financial services disputes.
Civil/Court Collaborative
This collaborative provides information and networking opportunities to practitioners working in Court mediation programs.
Education Collaborative
This collaborative is targeted for those mediators working in an education context. It provides information and networking opportunities for practitioners working in preK-12th grade as well as higher education settings.
Environmental & Public Policy Collaborative
This collaborative promotes the use of mediation in environmental and public policy disputes and provides information and networking opportunities to practitioners working in those arenas.
Family Collaborative
This collaborative is targeted for those mediators working throughout the family mediation field. It provides information and networking opportunities for practitioners working in family, divorce, child custody, adoption, parent-teen, and elder decision-making arenas.
Employment & Workplace
This collaborative promotes the use of mediation in workplace and employment issues. It provides information and networking opportunities to practitioners working across the workplace arena including, but not limited to: discrimination, ADA, sexual harassment, worker’s comp, EEOC, cross cultural and government.