Mediator & Facilitator

  • Mediating family, commercial, personal injury, insurance, estate, wrongful dismissal, work place, community, and child protection matters since 1991.
  • Collaboratively designed and directed during implementation B.C.’s Small Claims Mediation Practicum Project.
  • Conducted research during 2001 into preliminary conferences and their usefulness as a pre-mediation process.
  • Comprehensive Family Mediator with Family Mediation Canada.
  • Chartered Mediator with the ADR Institute of Canada.
  • Member of the B.C. Mediator Roster (Civil & Family).


Lawyer - Collaborative Law

  • Called to the Alberta Bar in 1979 and to the B.C. Bar in 1987.
  • Member of the Lower Mainland Collaborative Family Law Group.
  • Member of Vancouver’s Collaborative Divorce Group.
  • Master of Laws, 2004, Bond University, Australia.
  • B.A. (1974) U. of A., L.LB. (1978) U. of A.


Trainer

  • Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law, U.B.C. 1993-1999. Developed and taught “Mediation” and the “moot alternative”.
  • Instructor and coach with B.C.’s Continuing Legal Education Society.
  • Guest mediation instructor with B.C.’s Professional Legal Training Course.
<<MEMBER>>
  • B.C. Mediator Roster (Civil and Family)
  • Chair, A.D.R. Task Force, Law Society of B.C.
  • Past-Chair, National A.D.R. Section, C.B.A.
  • Past-President, Mediation Development Association of B.C.
  • Conflict Resolution Network
  • Family Mediation Canada
  • A.D.R. Institute of Canada
  • Collaborative Family Law
  • Collaborative Divorce
<<SPEAKER>>
  • Pre-Mediation Strategies, CBA,, Kelowna, Oct. 2004
  • "Mentoring Effectively - the Art of Communication", CBA, Vancouver, April 2004
  • "Prepare, Prepare, Prepare ... And More", Family Justice Services, Abbottsford, June 2004
  • Family Mediation Canada: Banff, 2003.
  • World Mediation Forum: Buenos Aires, 2003.
  • Connections 2002, Academic Forum:
    Charlottetown, 2002
  • Practical Approaches to Appropriate Dispute Resolution:
    Vancouver, 2002
  • Creating Success: A Symposium for Women in Law, C.B.A.:
    Vancouver, June 2001
  • Bond University, Faculty of Law:
    Queensland, Feb. 2001
  • Academy of Family and Conciliation Courts:
    Vancouver, 1999 & 2003
  • Annual Northwest A.D.R. Conference:
    Seattle, 1998