Welcome to RIVERDALE MEDIATION

Our mission is to provide high-quality mediation, arbitration, parenting coordination, 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

Jared Norton

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

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September 12 & 13, 2016
Basic Parenting Coordination

September 27, 28 & 29 / 30, 2016*
Family Law (21/30 Hours)

October 24, 25 & 26, 2016*
Screening for Family Violence, Abuse, and Power Imbalances

November 30, December 1 & 2, 2016*
Advanced Family Mediation

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January 12 & 13, 2017
Advanced Parenting Coordination

February 15, 16 & 17, 2017*
Introduction to Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)

March 20, 21 & 22 / 23, 2017*
Family Law (21/30 Hours)

April 19, 20 & 21, 2017*
Screening for Family Violence, Abuse, and Power Imbalances

May 11, 12, 15, 16 & 17, 2017*
Basic Family Negotiation & Mediation (40 Hours)

May 31, 2017
Duty of Care for Family Law Professionals (10-Hour Update)

Our Training Booklet contains detailed information on all courses offered! Information on course content and available packages. Click the image above to view/download file.

What’s New at RIVERDALE

• Check out Premier Kathleen Wynne‘s Greeting video for FDRweek (2016) and the FDRIO Conference here!

• On October 20-22, 2016, our 21-hour Screening for Family Violence course will be delivered for the Conciliation and Arbitration Board (CAB) in Edmonton, AB.

• On November 9-10, 2016, Hilary will be teaching a two-day training workshop with Collaborative Family Lawyers Nova Scotia entitled,”Identifying, Assessing and Managing Power Imbalance and Family Violence in FDR Processes”. For complete schedule and details, view the event flyer.

• Our 2016-2017 mediation training schedule is now available! Click here to see what we are offering. We are now accepting registrations!  Click here to register!

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Featured ARTICLES

• Duty of Care for Family Dispute Resolution Professionals, Mary Jo Franchi-Rothecker, Accendus Group Newsletter # 3, June 2016
• Encourage Young Aspiring Family Mediators to Enter the Field: Their Careers, Your Business, and Our Profession Will Benefit, Michael Aurit, November 2015
• Newsletter: Better Justice Together (Update), Ministry of the Attorney General, December 2015 
• Ontario Premier Kicks Off Family Dispute Resolution Week, Financial Post, November 2015
• Family Dispute Resolution Brings Changing Needs in the Profession Hilary Linton, September 2015
• Newsletter: Better Justice Together, Ministry of the Attorney General, June 2015
• Newsletter: Family Law Association (FLA), June 2015
• How to be a Better Divorced Parent Erin Silver, April 2015
• New Board Member Interviews Hilary Linton, 2014
• Are We Ready for Med-Arb?  Felicity Shedden, 2014
• Identifying, Assessing and Managing Power Imbalances Hilary Linton, 2014
• Should we mediate cases involving domestic violence? Ashley E. Lowe & Nina Dodge Abrams, 2011
• The naked and the dead end: Training in screening for power imbalances James Pirrie, UK Lawyer, 2012
• Informed Choices in Parenting Coordination: Ten Reasons for Parenting Coordination to Not (Necessarily) Provide Reports to the Court
  Hilary Linton, 2012
• Western Law Notes: E-newsletter for alumni, students and friends of Western Law | Spring 2012
• Preparation for Mediation: For both Lawyers and Clients
  Andrea Himel, 2011
• Screening for Power Imbalances in Family Law Cases
  Hilary Linton, 2012
• The Power of Apologies in Family Mediation
  Elizabeth Hyde, 2011

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