AMINZ e-Learning Programme
Year-Round Professional Development, Included in Your AMINZ Membership
Our new e-Learning Programme brings you flexible, year-round learning, complementing AMINZ's existing education and events programmes. Launching in October 2026, the programme will move to a full annual schedule from February 2027, with most sessions available at no additional cost as part of your AMINZ membership.
Alongside live online sessions, the programme will build a growing library of on-demand resources in your Member Portal.
What to Expect
Timely updates and practical learning from expert speakers across four streams covering legislation, regulation and developments affecting the profession, alongside broader professional development to support your practice and career.
An expanding on-demand library of recorded webinars, articles, research, papers, and practical resources.
Access through your AMINZ Member Portal, bringing learning resources together in one place.
Most sessions available at no additional cost as part of your AMINZ membership.
Four Content Streams
The e-Learning programme is structured around four content streams that provide a balanced framework and reflect what contemporary dispute resolution practice increasingly requires.
Human Dynamics and Wellbeing: recognises that our work is ultimately about people, relationships and conflict, and that practitioner wellbeing matters too.
Intercultural Fluency: reflects the importance of being able to work effectively across cultures, communities and different perspectives.
Future Practice: looks at what is changing around us, including AI and technology, as well as areas such as communication, professional profile and building a sustainable practice.
Practice and Sector Updates: helps members keep abreast of legislative, regulatory, technical and sector-specific developments.
Fast Five with Monique Pearson
“There’s an enormous amount of information available to practitioners, both here and internationally, and it can be challenging to keep across what’s most relevant. I think AMINZ has an important role in helping members navigate that by bringing useful developments, new thinking, practical issues and resources to the professional community in a way that’s accessible and relevant.”
Executive Director Monique Pearson answers our fast five questions about the thinking behind the programme, the gap it is designed to fill, how she developed the four content streams, and more.
Upcoming e-Learning Sessions
First e-Learning Session: Friday 30 October, 12–12.45pm
Reframing Individual Employment Dispute Resolution in New Zealand with Lisa Oakley
What if the way we resolve employment disputes is sometimes part of the problem? Mediator and workplace conflict specialist Lisa Oakley explores where individual employment disputes can become unnecessarily entrenched, and where earlier intervention may create better outcomes.
Drawing on more than 20 years across employment relations, investigations, mediation and organisational change, alongside her doctoral research on dispute resolution, Lisa will examine the human, legal and organisational cost of protracted conflict and practical ways to reframe the path to resolution.
This lunchtime session is designed for dispute resolution and employment practitioners interested in fairer, more proportionate, and more sustainable approaches.
FAQs
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Most online sessions are available to members at no additional cost as part of their membership. Some sessions may also be open to non-members, depending on the topic and format. Registration details and eligibility will be provided for each session.
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Most sessions will be designed to be accessible to practitioners at different stages of their careers and will not require specialist prior knowledge. Where a session is aimed at a particular area of practice or assumes a certain level of knowledge, this will be made clear in the session information.
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Most online sessions will be available to AMINZ members at no additional cost as part of their membership. Where a session has a registration fee, this will be clearly stated when the session is advertised. Fees for non-members may also apply where sessions are open to them.
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Where appropriate, session materials and additional resources will be made available to participants. Over time, the programme will also build a growing on-demand collection of recordings, articles and other resources through the Member Portal, giving members the opportunity to revisit learning and explore topics beyond the live sessions.
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Live online sessions may be recorded so they can be made available as an on-demand resource through the Member Portal. Participants will be advised at the beginning of the session if it is being recorded. Where appropriate, questions can also be submitted without being recorded as part of the session.