Category Archives: ADR Training

Our teaching team Nicole Stewart Kamanga ,Liz Waisberg along with  Elizabeth Hyde and  Joel Skapinker are in Grenada this week. They are delivering training to 35 community leaders as part of the IMPACT Justice Project. See our previous blog for more information about this exciting project.  _______________ Another perfect weather day! As our Group’s skills continue to build, today they worked …
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 Joel Skapinker is on our teaching team in Grenada this week. He, along with Riverdale mediator Elizabeth Hyde and mediate393 mediators Nicole Stewart-Kamanga and Liz Waisberg are delivering training to 35 community leaders as part of the IMPACT Justice Project. See our previous blog for more information about this exciting project.  Our first day of teaching mediation in Grenada was …
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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 Maresca, and enabled by changes to the Child and Family Services Act in 2005, the process brings families in crisis and their supports together with …
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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 legal professionals to expose themselves to alternate methods of dispute resolution around the world.  It will help us be creative and flexible with our practices, …
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I was honoured to be asked to provide two days of advanced family mediation training for Family Mediation Canada (FMC) in Vancouver this month. It was a particular pleasure to do this on the 30th anniversary of FMC’s creation by the Department of Justice in Ottawa. Howard Irving, one of the original FMC directors, spoke about the history behind FMC …
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I just attended the annual Dispute Resolution conference sponsored by Britain’s legal family DR organization, Resolution.

Accredited family mediators and arbitrators in Ontario are now required to complete training on screening for family violence and power imbalances in family law disputes. But what exactly does “screening” consist of? We often get questions about the screening process, and so we decided to compile a list of common questions, depicted in the infographic below: On October 7th-9th, 2014, …
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This advanced workshop in the UK will focus on challenges facing family mediator-arbitrators in both Canada and the UK. MORE