About Helen Lightstone
Helen Lightstone is the founder of Lightstone Academy for Conflict Resolution, and is a mediator, trainer, licensed paralegal, and college professor. Helen is both a Chartered Mediator (C.Med.) and a Qualified Arbitrator (Q. Arb.). She has mediated two-party and multi-party disputes in various contexts, including breach of contract, community, personal injury, sexual assaults, victim-offender, and workplace.
After earning her Law Society of Upper Canada (now the Law Society of Ontario), paralegal license in 2008, Helen received her certificate in Alternative Dispute Resolution from York University and then earned her Master of Laws (LL.M) in Dispute Resolution from Osgoode Hall Law School in 2017.
Dubbed “the Mediation Lady” by her students, Helen is also a respected and experienced professor of Alternative Dispute Resolution and has worked with the following colleges: Durham, Centennial, Seneca and Sheridan. She has taught ADR for the Department of National Defence and to police officers in Belize with Riverdale Mediation. Helen coaches at Osgoode Hall Law School in their Master of Laws, Dispute Resolution program.
Lightstone Academy for Conflict Resolution is proud to have three accredited courses by the Alternative Dispute Resolution Institute, the introductory Essentials and the advanced, Quintessentials and, Media Studies and Conflict Resolution.
Not only does Helen offer mediation through Lightstone Academy for Conflict Resolution, Helen is listed on several rosters as a mediator including Community Justice Alternatives, the Office of the Independent Police Review Director, the Ontario Mandatory Mediation Program, and, and proudly sits on the board of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Institute of Ontario.
Helen is also a Workplace Fairness Analysist as part of Workplace Fairness International.