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How to Get Along: A Seven-Week Conflict Resolution Workshop for Couples
Brook Thorndycraft (intern with Riverdale Mediation Ltd.) A few months ago, I took a break from work to chat over coffee with my friend Ali, a psychotherapist and couples counselor. As we talked...
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Pecuniary Power Imbalances and Choosing a Mediator
Power imbalances are an important consideration during mediation, but they do not start when mediation begins. Rather power imbalances are pre-existing factors that are at work leading up to the...
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Thank you Family Mediation Canada!
I was honoured to be asked to provide two days of advanced family mediation training for Family Mediation Canada (FMC) in Vancouver this month. Hilary with Betty Ife, renowned Vancouver family mediator...
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Jirga Council Dispute Resolution
The process of mediation/arbitration can be flexible and there are many other forms of the process such as the Peace Circles, and Jirga Councils. In a country as diverse as Canada, it is important for...
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FDRIO’s First Annual Conference
On November 23, 2015 FDRIO held its First Annual Conference. Although I have been a litigant for over 20 years this was my first foray into the ADR field. As the field of ADR has been growing and...
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Looking for Orgs and Resources on Family Law, Mental Health, Domestic...
An exciting new spreadsheet detailing family law resources and related organizations in Ontario is available now on our website (as well as that of mediate311 and mediate47). For easier use by both...
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A Necessity For Training In Family Violence Screening
NOTE: Sina Hariri, who is a current intern with Riverdale Mediation Ltd., recently wrote and contributed this article to the Ontario Bar Association (OBA) website. http://ow.ly/Wctho ______________ As...
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Family Med-Arb: It’s time to set some standards in Ontario
FDRIO Mediation-Arbitration Workshop: the day featured Hilary Linton, Lorne Wolfson, and Carol Hickman During Ontario’s first FDRweek there was a well-attended workshop on family mediation-arbitration....
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Innovative FDR at the Durham CAS
I recently led a two-day training for one of the most exciting projects I have seen in our field. Child protection mediation has been taking place since 2005. Pioneered in the 1990s by Justice June...
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Practical, Ethical Guidelines for Comprehensive Family Mediation
Hilary Linton wrote an in-depth article on ethical guidelines for family mediators. Keep visiting our blog for the next part in this series. As more unrepresented parties going through separation and...
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Practical, Ethical Guidelines for Comprehensive Family Mediation: Part 2
In part 2 of this blog series, Hilary Linton focuses on the risks of mediation and why a “practical” set of ethical guidelines is needed for family mediators The Risk of Mediation In order to truly...
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Professionalism & Ethics in Family Law: The Other 90%
NOTE: Deanne Sowter* recently wrote and contributed this article to the Winkler Institue for Dispute Resolution website As the 2015/16 OBA Foundation Chief Justice of Ontario Fellow in Legal Ethics...
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Practical, Ethical Guidelines for Comprehensive Family Mediation: Part 3
In part 3 of this blog series, Hilary Linton focuses on the special ethical duty of family mediators with vulnerable clients What is the formal source of a special ethical duty towards such vulnerable...
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Riverdale Mediation goes International!
Over the next several months, Riverdale Mediation Ltd. will be training civic leaders in various Caribbean nations in Alternative Dispute Resolution, in collaboration with the Improved Access to...
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Practical, Ethical Guidelines for Comprehensive Family Mediation: Part 4
In this part 4 of this blog series, Hilary sets out four practical ethical “rules” which should be considered in mediation practice Four suggestions Given the unique vulnerability of family mediation...
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Reflections on Teaching ADR in Grenada
Our colleague Joel Skapinker is on our teaching team in Grenada this week. He, along with Riverdale associate Elizabeth Hyde and mediate393 mediators Nicole Stewart-Kamanga and Liz Waisberg are...
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Reflections on Teaching ADR in Grenada – Part 2
Our colleagues Nicole Stewart Kamanga and Liz Waisberg are on our teaching team in Grenada this week. They, along with Riverdale associate Elizabeth Hyde and mediate393 mediator Joel Skapinker are...
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Gender in Negotiation
In light of International Women’s Day being this week, here is an article by Deborah Kolb reviewing the role gender plays in negotiation. After many years of indifference, the study of gender is...
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Mediate Like a Roman
What does a mediator do? In helping to understand what a mediator is & what a mediator does I have gone to Latin sources. I refer the reader to the Latin word interpres (which came to me on my...
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Without Borders : FDRIO UnConference
On May 4, 2016, FDRIO is hosting the first-ever “Unconference” in dispute resolution, taking place at The Centre for Social Innovation on Spadina Avenue in Toronto. The idea was borrowed from the tech...
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