Books by Patricia Lane

Books by Patricia Lane

Mediation Resource Guide

Mediation Resource Guide

Mediation Resource Guide

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CURRICULUM VITAE

 

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PRACTICE RESTRICTED TO ALTERNATE DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Twenty-five years' experience in alternate dispute resolution, consensus building, conflict management and communications enhancement, working with individuals, families, workplace and volunteer teams, policy makers, Boards, shareholders, CEOs, senior officials, middle and line managers, field staff, support staff, volunteers, stakeholders, families and communities. Clients have included private corporations, families, 3 levels of government, regulators, First Nations, employers, unions, churches, service delivery agencies, school and health boards, women's groups, credit unions and co-ops. Process management of substantive topics such as industrial relations, ADR systems design, insurance, estates, shareholder disputes, expropriation, tax policy, aboriginal issues, trade policy, economic restructuring, land use, small business development, pension investment, health care reform, corporate governance issues, community development, human resource management, communications planning, and decision planning in families and organizations.

EXPERIENCE AS A MEDIATOR, ARBITRATOR, TRAINER, ADVOCATE AND TRIBUNAL JUDGE

AREAS OF EXPERIENCE & ADR PRACTICE

 

PUBLIC AND BOARD MEMBERSHIPS AND APPOINTMENTS

 

  • Family (support, property, custody, co-parenting, access, pension, teen parent, gay and lesbian issues)
  • Estates & adult guardian
  • Insurance (ICBC & other)
  • Corporate/Shareholder
  • Malpractice
  • Health-care & education
  • Commercial & contract
  • Partnerships
  • Sexual abuse
  • Land use
  • First Nations
  • Community
  • Labour/ Workplace
  • Not-for-profits
  • Organizational change
  • Management
  • Wrongful dismissal
  • Boards of Directors
  • Public policy
  • Family business
  • Harassment
  • Expropriation

 

Current:

  • Panel Member, U.Vic Harassment Panel         

Past:

  • Director, Coast Capital Savings Credit Union
  • Member, Real Estate Council of British Columbia
  • Director, Capital Health Board
  • Commissioner, BC Securities Commission
  • International Development Education and Research Association
  • Chair, Board of Island Pastoral Services
  • New Directions Magazine
  • Chair, U.Vic Harassment Panel

 

 

ACCREDITATIONS, MEMBERSHIPS, TRAINING

 

PUBLICATIONS IN THE FIELD

 

Law Society Accredited Family Law Mediator,
Mediating the Financial Divorce (JI),
Advanced Commercial Mediation (CLE),
Competency Clinic (CLE),
Advanced Leadership Training, Phoenix Centre For Human Relations (Vancouver),
Breaking Gender Communication Barriers, Warren Farrell (AWSA, Victoria),
Personal Shalom, Mediation Training for Church Audiences,
Wills and Estates, Family and ADR Subsections, Canadian Bar Association; Family Mediation Canada,
Mediation Development Association, BC,
BC Arbitration and Mediation Institute (Board Member Victoria Chapter),
Member of the B.C. Mediator Roster (Civil & Family) and the Parenting Coordination roster

Teaching:
1996-2000 Justice Institute, Conflict Resolution Faculty;
U.Victoria Law School Sessional

Camosun College Dispute Resolution Cert. Prog. Maritime Forces Pacific DND

Working Language: English

 

  • Lane, P., "Interest Based Conflict Resolution; Resource Material for an Unconditionally Constructive Culture", (Produced by the BC School Trustees' Association, Feb. 1994)
  • Lane, P., "An Innovative Approach to Public Consultation; Building Consensus in Tax Policy at the Ontario Fair Tax Commission", Optimum March 1993
  • Lane, P., and Nixon, Dr. R., "Roles and Responsibilities of Directors of Development Organizations", (1990, Kitsaki Development Corporation)
  • Lane, P., "Mediation-What's New?", The Advocate, Vol. 54, Part 2, March 1996, p. 197
  • Lane, P., Bircher, R., "Negotiating Fair Agreements Between Men and Women", Northwest ADR Conference 1995 (Seattle) Conference Proceedings Notebook
  • Lane, P., "The Feminist Critique of Mediation-Implications for Mediation Practice", (unpublished; available on request)
  • Lane, P., "Mediation: A Resource Guide for Practitioners", 1997 CCMB Publications
  • Lane, P., "Conflict Competence - Within your reach", 1997 CCMB Publications (2nd ed. 1999)
  • Lane, P., "Seeking Agreement", Text, 1997 Camosun College
  • Lane, P., "For Your Children: A step-by-step guide to creating your own co-parenting agreements ", 1997 CCMB Publications (2nd ed. 2000)


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