Continuing Professional Development
Develop and maintain your professional competence
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) helps AMINZ members keep their knowledge and skills current. It includes activities such as training, seminars, workshops, reading, and other professional learning that contributes to your development in dispute resolution.
AMINZ provide various opportunities throughout the year for practitioners to continually develop their understanding of dispute resolution and earn points towards their CPD requirement.
Who Needs to Keep and Submit a CPD Record?
If you’re on an AMINZ Panel or List, you’ll need to keep track of your CPD activities each year and submit your record by end of February.
This helps make sure you meet the requirements to stay on the Panel or List.
If you’re an AMINZ Fellow or Associate, keeping a CPD record is encouraged, as a helpful way to stay on top of your professional development, but there’s no need to submit anything each year.
CPD categories
Your CPD points can be gained across three categories. You will need to ensure you have gained points in at least two of the three categories each year.
So, what constitutes a CPD point? Explore each category below and find out how many points you can gain based on the activities you participate in.
Category One: Practice
These points can be gained for each event in which you have made a direct contribution to the practice of dispute resolution.
Members claiming under this clause are invited to submit brief details on the relevant dispute resolution process. The assessors may, where they consider appropriate, approve a credit of fewer points.
Category Two: Teaching or Learning
Point can be gained for each event where you have contributed to the teaching or learning of ADR at a tertiary level
Category Three: Attendance at Dispute Resolution Events
Take part in dispute resolution focused events and programmes, and you’ll earn CPD points along the way.
Keep an eye out on our events calendar here to see what you can attend.
Example CPD
You will likely gain CPD through your day-to-day professional activities (such as informal mentoring with a colleague.)
Keep this in mind when you're adding up what you have participated in throughout the year.
If you have any questions, contact membership@aminz.org.nz
Logging your CPD online
Ready to submit your CPD activities? This is done through the AMINZ Member portal here.
You simply need to upload information about each of the activities/events you have undertaken throughout the year.