Family Mediation and Arbitration

Our accredited lawyer and social worker mediators and arbitrators can help you resolve the most challenging cases. We work together with you, lawyers and other professionals, effectively and affordably.

Parenting Mediation and Coordination

We work with parents, their children, extended families and professionals to help create the best possible parenting plan for each family. We provide skilled and experienced parenting coordination services to let parenting plans work best for the children.

Civil Mediation

From neighbour problems to education disagreements to family company conflict: we mediate a wide range of disputes with care and compassion. We understand what causes conflict and what helps resolve it.

Intern with Us

We have developed an internship program that gives new family mediators exposure to all aspects of the practice. Learn from and with our diverse and experienced team of professionals, and gain the skills and experience for accreditation.

Acclaimed Mediation Courses

We offer unique courses in family mediation, screening for power imbalances in negotiation, family arbitration, and family law. We receive top marks for dynamic and relevant content, diversity of trainers and quality of instruction/feedback. Earn accredited training hours from the Law Society, OAFM and ADRIO.

Customized Training

We design and provide custom training on mediation, arbitration and conflict resolution for organizations and private groups of all sizes around the world.

Welcome to RIVERDALE MEDIATION

Our mission is to provide high quality mediation, arbitration and training services.

Our professionally accredited mediators have legal or social work backgrounds. We work closely with lawyers, clients and other professionals to create effective conflict resolution processes. We help resolve the most challenging cases. And our training and consulting work is internationally acclaimed. We provide professionals with excellent learning and accreditation credentials.


Hilary Linton
Elizabeth Hyde
Christine Kim

Our Dispute Resolution Services
We provide family and civil mediation, parenting coordination, and family mediation-arbitration. Our work is mostly referred by lawyers, and we are respected for our effective mediations with clients alone. We work closely with our clients, their lawyers and other professionals to provide the right process, done the right way. We keep costs down, without sacrificing experience, professionalism, satisfaction or quality outcomes.

Our Training Services
We offer a highly respected series of Core Workshops for family and collaborative lawyers, mental health professionals, arbitrators, paraglegals, educators, business leaders and others. Designed to equip participants to gain mediation designations, our courses provide the theory, skills and experience required for effective conflict resolution. We follow up with a comprehensive internship program.

Custom Training
We have designed and delivered custom conflict resolution workshops across Canada and in the UK. We will create training for groups as small as ten, designed to meet the needs of an organization or group of professionals. We focus on meaningful theory and effective skills — in negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and restorative justice — and address the difficult issues of power, gender, cultural difference, violence and mental illness, among others.

Our commitment to high standards and constant improvement is evident in all we do. We hope you enjoy our site.

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Upcoming COURSES

September 19th & 20th, 2013
Fundamentals of Family Arbitration
Note: CPD credit renewal pending. The following is based on previous accreditation. This program has been accredited by the Law Society for 2.5 Professionalism Hours and 10.5 Substantive hours. A comprehensive and practical workshop designed to familiarize lawyers and other professionals with the fundamentals of family arbitration practice and law.

November 6, 7 & 8, 2013
Advanced Family Mediation and Negotiation Theory and Skills (21 hours)
An intensive three-day skills-based workshop that needs the role playing and skills training requirements for family mediation accreditation for OAFM and ADRIO.

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What’s New at RIVERDALE

The Law Society of Upper Canada‘s ”Demystifying a Family Law Mediation” on April 17th was a fun and interesting event. More information here.

Hilary delivered a workshop on Power Imbalance in Mediation with Bill Eddy, Claudette Reimer and Rod Wells, for the Academy of Professional Family Mediators in Atlanta April 13-14 in Georgia, Atlanta.  It was APFM’s first “Advanced Skills Training” session. Read Bill Eddy’s blog post here.

Christine will speak on Parenting Coordination with Seema Jain at the ADR Institute of Ontario, May 7.

Elizabeth’s talk on  ”Approaches to Negotiating Settlements: Alternatives to Litigation” at the LSUC’s Family Law Practice Essentials, January 22nd can be seen here.

Hilary returns to Vancouver in June to provide training to B.C. family lawyers, mediators, arbitrators, collaborative practitioners and parenting coordinators in “Identifying, Assessing and Managing Family Violence and Power Dynamics in Family Dispute Resolution Process Design.”

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NEWSLETTER

Riverdale’s Winter 2012 Newsletter

  • What’s Happening
    at Riverdale
  • Intro: Some News
  • Upcoming Courses
  • What’s up at Riverdale
  • Meet our New Interns
  • Feedback from a training participant

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