Naomi Burstyner
Mediator, Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner, Lecturer and PhD candidate
Qualifications
Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Laws, Masters of Laws, Postgraduate Diploma of Legal Practice Skills and Ethics, Graduate Diploma Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner National Mediation Accreditation System
Areas of Expertise
My Biography
Naomi is a mum of three beautiful kids. She is legally qualified and works as a mediator, family dispute resolution practitioner and Monash University lecturer and is currently undertaking her PhD at Monash University. Naomi is accredited under the National Mediation Accreditation System (NMAS) and is qualified as a Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner (registered with the Attorney General’s office). Naomi’s approach to mediation is facilitative, pragmatic and focussed on empowering parties to make their own realistic and sustainable decisions. She mediates disputes for families, workplaces, elders and schools. Naomi lectures in the postgraduate Faculty of Law at Monash University, teaching two NMAS accredited mediation units since 2013. (Other lecturing experience includes units in the fields of negotiation skills and dispute resolution advocacy). Her PhD is exploring the experiences of families and others involved in coronial investigations, with a focus on identifying processes to improve families’ experiences of complaints and disputes in coronial investigations and inquests. She has published several articles on aspects of health law, teaching negotiation, mediator ethics, justice innovation and access to justice including ADR and the effectiveness of aspects of the justice system as well as consumer vulnerability.