Courses, practice learning, sector learning and structured professional development.
DEVELOP YOUR PRACTICE
A professional life beyond certification.
Good Neutral Practice keeps developing. You learn, handle more difficult work, deepen your sector knowledge, stay current, meet other practitioners and contribute what you know. TheNeutrals.ORG brings those parts of professional life together.
Your practice grows through the work you do, the people you learn from and the things you contribute.
Sharpen your role, deepen relevant expertise and build confidence around the work you want to do.
Peer exchange, professional conversations and cross-border relationships.
Write, speak, teach, join dialogue and help improve Neutral Practice.
WHAT KEEPS DEVELOPING
Professional development is wider than taking another course.
A strong practice grows in several directions at the same time. Formal learning matters, but so do judgment, current knowledge, peer contact, professional visibility and contribution.
Build method, knowledge and confidence through structured learning.
Turn learning into better work and clearer professional judgment.
Keep pace with standards, practice developments and sector change.
Learn from peers and build professional relationships across borders.
Share useful knowledge through writing, dialogue, teaching and discussion.
Take on wider responsibility when your experience and contribution support it.
WHERE SHOULD I START?
Start with what you want to become better at now.
You do not need to follow every route at once. Pick the part of your practice that needs attention and move from there.
01 / METHOD
Use the Academy and Professional Pathway to strengthen the way you work.
Start with the Neutral role you practise or want to practise. Build the method first, then add sector knowledge and practical experience around it.
THE ACADEMY
Learn what helps you do the work better.
The Academy is the formal learning side of professional development. It should support practitioners at different stages, from foundation work to advanced practice and sector depth.
PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
Method first. Then depth.
Neutral Practice needs a clear method, sound professional boundaries and the ability to work inside real commercial, institutional and human situations.
FOUNDATION
Foundation in Neutral Practice
Core professional method and the common basis of Neutral Practice.
PRACTICE Practice qualificationsLearning built around particular Neutral roles and professional functions.
SECTOR Sector qualificationsAdd useful subject knowledge where the work depends on context.
ADVANCED Advanced practiceDevelop judgment and capability for more difficult mandates and situations.
SHORT LEARNING Courses and focused modulesUse smaller learning blocks when the practice need is specific.
STANDARDS Learn from the standardsKeep professional learning connected to the standards that govern the work.
CPD PASSPORT™
Keep a simple record of how your practice stays current.
CPD should not be a pile of certificates. The useful record is a clear picture of what you have learned, how it relates to your work and whether your professional standing is current.
CONTINUING COMPETENCE
A record you can understand at a glance.
The CPD Passport™ can bring formal courses, professional dialogue, writing, teaching, standards work and other approved development into one current record.
CPD PASSPORT™
Current professional year
2026
RECORDED DEVELOPMENT
24h
Practice
Neutral method and professional boundaries
8h
Sector
Sector knowledge and current developments
5h
Exchange
Peer roundtables and case discussion
4h
Contribution
Writing, teaching or professional dialogue
4h
Standards
Standards and ethics update
3h
Illustrative front-end view. The live record should use the approved CPD framework and the practitioner's actual activity.
PRACTICE BUILDER
A better practice is built around the kind of work you want to do well.
Professional development should help a Neutral become clearer about role, method, sector context and the work they are genuinely equipped to accept.
BUILD WITH PURPOSE
What do you want your practice to be known for?
Start with the work itself. A clear practice is easier to develop, easier to explain and easier for the right users to find.
Mediation, Neutral Evaluation, Standing Neutral, Neutral Chairing, Expert Determination or another defined role.
Build real context around the sectors where you expect to work.
Local knowledge and cross-border awareness can both matter.
Qualifications, CPD, writing, speaking and approved professional activity should become part of the visible record.
Strong practice depends on a properly defined mandate and professional boundaries.
Experience matters most when it is reflected on, understood and carried into better future work.
PROFESSIONAL DISCOVERY
Current public professional records
Only currently published professional records are shown.
PUBLIC PROFESSIONAL RECORD / Marseille, France
Beatrice Favarel
Arbitrator & Mediator
mediationarbitrationBanking and FinanceMaritime
Published record: Me Béatrice Favarel, founding partner, since 1997 News: In March 2016, she participated in a conference in London organized by the « Super Yacht Investor Show » called « There…
PUBLIC PROFESSIONAL RECORD / Geneva, Switzerland
Gilles Thieffry
Arbitrator & Mediator
mediationarbitrationethicsBanking and Finance
Published record: Professional background Partner and founding partner(2007 to date) GTLaw ®. Partner (2004 to 2007) Pestalozzi Lachenal Patry, Geneva, Switzerland - Partner specialised in finance. Practice covers commodity finance, structured finance…
PUBLIC PROFESSIONAL RECORD / Singapore, Singapore
Capt. Lee Fook Choon
Lawyer & Arbitrator
mediationarbitrationEducationHealthcare Disputes Practice GroupInformation
Published record: Educational/Professional Memberships Master Mariner, L.LM (Cardiff Law School), Associate Member Chartered Institute of Insurance (ACII), Chartered Insurance Practitioner (CIP), Chartered Arbitrator (UK), Accredited Mediator of HK, Approved Tutor of Chartered…
PUBLIC PROFESSIONAL RECORD / New York, United States
Michael Goldstein
Arbitrator & Mediator
mediationarbitrationBanking and FinanceHealthcare Disputes Practice Group
Published record: Mr. Goldstein is admitted to practice in New York, several federal district courts, and United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Circuits. He also…
CONTRIBUTE
A profession becomes stronger when practitioners leave useful work behind.
Contribution does not need to be grand. A good Practice Note, a thoughtful discussion, a useful teaching session or a careful piece of research can all help another practitioner do better work.
WRITE
Practice Notes and publications
Share practical thinking, research and lessons from the field.
DISCUSS Global DialoguesJoin professional conversations around real issues in Neutral Practice.
SPEAK Neutral VoiceMake useful professional ideas easier to hear and understand.
TEACH Faculty and learningHelp practitioners learn from experience, method and professional judgment.
LEAD Take wider professional responsibilityLeadership should follow substance, contribution and professional standing.
YOUR NEXT PROFESSIONAL YEAR
Choose a few things that would make your practice better twelve months from now.
This small planner is deliberately simple. Pick one development priority in each area and use the result as a starting point for your year.
A SIMPLE PRACTICE PLAN
One year. Four useful choices.
A plan that you will actually use is better than a long list of professional intentions.
LEARNING
What should you become better at?
SECTOR
Where should you know more?
COMMUNITY
How will you stay connected?
CONTRIBUTION
What useful thing will you contribute?
YOUR WORKING PLAN
A practical year of development.
Strengthen your Neutral method, deepen one priority sector, join regular peer exchange and publish one useful Practice Note.
CONTINUE
Professional development should connect naturally to the rest of your professional record.
LEARN
Open the Academy
Move into structured professional learning and practice development.
STAY CURRENT Open your CPD Passport™Keep continuing competence visible and organised.
CONNECT Enter The ExchangeJoin the professional community behind the public Register.
PUBLIC RECORD See professional development through the profileLet current learning and contribution form part of a richer professional identity.
DEVELOP YOUR PRACTICE
Keep learning. Keep doing better work. Keep something useful in the profession behind you.
Your professional life can move between learning, CPD, practice building, peer exchange and contribution without becoming a collection of separate programmes.