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 ensures you meet the requirements to stay on a 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.

Points and Categories

Your CPD points can be gained across three categories. Panel and List Members are required to complete 30 CPD points each year.

Explore each category below and find out how many points you can gain based on the activities you participate in.

  • You can earn points for any activity where you have directly contributed to the practice of dispute resolution, for example:

    • Arbitrator, mediator, facilitator, adjudicator, or other neutral – 10 points per week

    • Counsel, advocate, representative, or expert witness – 6 points per week

  • You can earn points for contributing to the teaching or learning of ADR at a tertiary level. Examples include:

    • Conference papers or journal articles - 10 points.

    • Books or chapters on ADR - 20 points.

    • Formal lectures or practicum teaching - 2 points.

    • Professional supervision, mentoring, or significant private study - 2 points.

    • Passing a formal tertiary study unit - 10 points.

    Points are awarded based on the activity and shared authorship where relevant.

  • You can earn points for activities that support colleagues and the ADR community, such as:

    • Attending or presenting at AMINZ conferences, seminars

    • Attending network meetings - 1 point

    • Participating in other relevant seminars - 2 points per half day.

    • Informal mentoring or debriefing with colleagues - 1 point.

Submitting Your CPD Points

Keeping your CPD up to date is simple, and your Member Portal has everything you need to get it done.

What you need:

  • A total of 30 points each year.

  • Points must be recorded in at least two categories.

  • We encourage you to regularly update your record throughout the year. CPD points for the current year can be submitted up until the end of February.

  • Full details are in the AMINZ Bylaws – Schedule 4.

How to submit:

  • Log your CPD points through your Member Portal.

  • Add a brief description of each activity and the points you’re claiming.

  • The Member Portal also includes a full list of all categories and point values.

  • For extra support, see our CPD Logging Guide.