Sessions now available to view on-demand!
The Florida Dispute Resolution Center is pleased to announce the 32nd DRC Conference: Strategies for Solutions. The conference will be held virtually on Friday, August 1, 2025 from 9:00 am until 5:15 pm.
We anticipate that over 1,000 mediators and parenting coordinators will be in attendance for this one-day event. The DRC facilitates this conference to benefit alternative dispute resolution professionals, judges, lawyers, and all stakeholders in the alternative dispute resolution community.
The Florida Dispute Resolution Center (DRC) is a unit of the Office of the State Courts Administrator under the Supreme Court of Florida. The Supreme Court of Florida, through the DRC, certifies mediators in the areas of county court, circuit court, family, dependency, and appellate. The DRC also provides staff assistance to five Supreme Court of Florida boards and committees, certifies mediation training programs, provides basic county mediation training and advanced continuing mediator education, and assists the local courts throughout Florida with alternative dispute resolution issues.
CONFERENCE BROCHURE
For your convenience, the DRC conference has a downloadable PDF version of the conference brochure located at the top navigation bar under “Conference Brochure” as well as an online version available here.
Additonally, the program book includes a Certificate of Attendance but you can also download the Certificate alone by clicking here.
CONTINUING EDUCATION HOURS
Important Information: Educational Credits for Mediators, Parenting Coordinators, and Florida Bar attorneys
The DRC conference offers two plenary sessions and 20 individual workshops. Both plenaries and all workshops will be available for viewing beginning on August 1 and proceeding for 60-days post-conference to allow attendees to gain the maximum number of credits.
CME: Eligible to fulfill up to 26.0 hours of CME including 4.0 IPV, 4.0 mediator ethics, and 1.0 cultural diversity. Attendance on August 1 only confers 6.3 CME hours including a minimum of 1.2 hours of mediator ethics.
CPCE: Eligible to fulfill up to 16 hours of CPCE including some required components. Attendance on August 1 only confers 6.3 CPCE hours including a minimum of 1.2 hours of mediator ethics.
CLE: Eligible to fulfill up to 22.5 hours of CLE including 6.5 legal ethics, 2.5 technology, 2.0 mental health and wellness, and 0.5 professionalism. Attendance on August 1 only confers 5.5 CLE hours including a minimum of 1.0 legal ethics. Florida Bar members will report course attendance for each plenary and workshop they view. Note: Technology hours may be by attending the opening plenary and workshop C1 – How to Use A1 as Mediator
