Category Archives: Mediation and Negotiation

Providing hope and a realistic vision is as important as developing a roadmap for parents that they can follow towards achieving their final destination. originally published August 15 2015 Like any intervention Parenting Coordination ultimately seeks to create change. In this case it is change in the toxic co-parental dynamic. As such, the end goal of the Parenting Coordination process is …
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The last session of training that we provided in the Caribbean for IMPACT Justice was November in Belize. We spent the week training with 38 police officers of varying rank, who came each day from across the country. We were inspired by the energy these officers put into merely getting to the course. Many spent 2 hours or more each …
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The theme for FDRWeek this year was “FDRevolution”, highlighting the emerging revolutionary changes and innovative techniques, products, services and complexities of FDR practice. On Thursday, Nov. 24th,  FDRIO held its 2nd annual Access to Justice Forum: at the Law Society of Upper Canada. Read more on the discussion between community members, organizations, and professionals on how to improve access to …
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Joel Skapiner, Nicole Stewart-Kamanga, Regina Thompson and Elizabeth spent a week in Guyana conducting another session of ADR training in collaboration with IMPACT Justice project. Read Joel’s account of their time in Georgetown! Four mediate393 roster mediators are spending a week in Guyana training social workers to upgrade their mediation skills through a program called IMPACT Justice project funded by the Government …
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Our team of mediators is in Guyana delivering another round of ADR training to community leaders with the IMPACT Justice project. Learn more about our complex cultural experience in Georgetown! I am in Georgetown, Guyana this week with colleagues Regina Thompson and Akbar Ebrahim, all family mediators working with mediate393 and all experienced trainers. We are working with the IMPACT …
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Jared, Regina, Caroline and I are sitting in the dining room of the Fort Young Hotel in the capital of Dominica, Roseau. The dining room is actually an old fort which was built by the British in 1771 after they had seized the old fort from the French. We arrived on Saturday after an hour and a half drive through …
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Riverdale Mediation will be training twenty-eight police officers to become community mediators in Rousseau, Dominica. This 40 hours training workshop, which runs from September 26th- 30th, is in collaboration with the Improved Access to Justice in the Carribbean (IMPACT Justice) Project. Our most recent workshop will be lead by Elizabeth Hyde and Jared Norton with our roster mediators Regina Thompson …
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  Mediation is a voluntary process of negotiation that is led by a neutral expert in conflict resolution skills. Family mediators are often family lawyers or mental health professionals themselves. Mediators generally do not provide solutions, and unless lawyers attend, mediation does not result in a signed , binding agreement. Rather, parties attend mediation to freely discuss the problems they …
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