Riverdale Mediation Hilary Linton, Principal Valérie Siébert, Assistant
Riverdale Mediation is a group of lawyers and mental health professionals who work together as mediators, arbitrators and parenting coordinators. Hilary Linton, a former law partner in Toronto, started the business in 2001. Our mediation associates are Susan Jack of Smith Family Law Group and Kim James, a social worker. Our teaching associates are Dr. Barbara Fidler, Tom Bastedo (of Bastedo Stewart Smith LLP), Dr. Barbara Benoliel (Preferred Solutions Inc.) Claudette Reimer (The Mediation Centre of Simcoe County) and Heather Swartz (Agree Inc.), among others. Our interns our constantly changing. And our assistant is Valérie Siébert.
What do we do?
We know that most people want to resolve their conflicts fairly, effectively and efficiently.
At Riverdale Mediation we believe in empowering people and organizations to resolve their own conflicts or disputes, at the lowest cost and in the most satisfactory way possible.
The mediators, facilitators and trainers who work with Riverdale Mediation have years of experience designing and providing practical, effective and affordable processes for helping people and organizations resolve their own conflicts. We work with you to design the best process to solve the problem: be it facilitated meetings, mediation, conferencing, neutral evaluation, arbitration, or any combination of these. Our highly acclaimed courses are all designed to meet any relevant accreditation criteria, and also provide extremely good value, skills and experience.
Our services include:
Conflict analysis - to help people better understand the dynamics of their conflict
Process design – to help ensure that the process being used meets the needs of the parties
Expert planning and facilitation of small and large meetings
Experienced mediation services — to resolve disputes arising from divorce and separation, family disagreements, community disputes, business and employment disputes, education-related conflict, among others.
Family mediation-arbitration processes
Dispute resolution coordination/monitoring services: in family law (parenting coordination) and in other on-going high conflict situations.
Our teaching and training services include:
Small and large group presentations and courses in:
Conflict analysis
Negotiation theory and skills
Mediation theory and skills
Power imbalances and violence in dispute resolution
Family law for mental health professionals, among others
One-on-one dispute resolution coaching for individuals and organizations
“Thank you for helping us bring this to a resolution. It has allowed some finality to the situation...we already have seen a change in the boys...."R" and the boys have you to thank for that.”
About Us
Who are we?
Riverdale Mediation
Hilary Linton, Principal
Valérie Siébert, Assistant
Riverdale Mediation is a group of lawyers and mental health professionals who work together as mediators, arbitrators and parenting coordinators. Hilary Linton, a former law partner in Toronto, started the business in 2001. Our mediation associates are Susan Jack of Smith Family Law Group and Kim James, a social worker. Our teaching associates are Dr. Barbara Fidler, Tom Bastedo (of Bastedo Stewart Smith LLP), Dr. Barbara Benoliel (Preferred Solutions Inc.) Claudette Reimer (The Mediation Centre of Simcoe County) and Heather Swartz (Agree Inc.), among others. Our interns our constantly changing. And our assistant is Valérie Siébert.
What do we do?
We know that most people want to resolve their conflicts fairly, effectively and efficiently.
At Riverdale Mediation we believe in empowering people and organizations to resolve their own conflicts or disputes, at the lowest cost and in the most satisfactory way possible.
The mediators, facilitators and trainers who work with Riverdale Mediation have years of experience designing and providing practical, effective and affordable processes for helping people and organizations resolve their own conflicts. We work with you to design the best process to solve the problem: be it facilitated meetings, mediation, conferencing, neutral evaluation, arbitration, or any combination of these. Our highly acclaimed courses are all designed to meet any relevant accreditation criteria, and also provide extremely good value, skills and experience.
Our services include:
Our teaching and training services include: