Narrative Mediation: A New Approach to Conflict Resolution
Most professionals trained to resolve conflicts ground their efforts in the theory that people are motivated by a desire to fulfill their personal interests. Mediators work to assist disputing parties by discovering a shared interest, which will motivate each party to resolve their conflicts. However, despite the widespread use of this traditional problem-solving, interest-based model of conflict resolution, incidents of violence, international hostilities, and legal disputes continue to...
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Introduces a new paradigm in the field of conflict resolution and a radical departure from the traditional interest-based approach. Uses actual scenarios from the authors' mediation practice to show how the mediation context is filled with strong cultural narratives influenced by ethnicity, gender, class, and financial status, and shows how to map the history of the conflict, construct solution-bound narratives, and move toward consensus. The authors are leading figures in the narrative therapy movement and counselors of narrative mediation at the Waikato Mediation Services in New Zealand. They are coauthors of two other books on narrative therapy. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
PrefaceAcknowledgments1Narrative Mediation: What Is It?12Theoretical and Philosophical Issues in Narrative Mediation313A Narrative Model of Meditation574Entitlement945The Relational Context of Narrative Mediation1166Disarming the Conflict1377Opening Space1588Building Momentum1819Getting Unstuck20610Documenting Progress227Epilogue249About the Authors253Index255
\ From the Publisher"A groundbreaking book bringing together ideas of social constructionist theory, narrative therapy, and mediation. The authors develop a very clear framework toward understanding this approach with case examples provided. I found this book useful to me both as a practitioner and as a researcher." (Jerry Gale, director, MFT Doctoral Program, Department of Child and Family Development, The University of Georgia, Co-PI Mediator Skills ProjectJerry Gale, director of the MFT Doctoral Program, Department of Child and Family Development, The University of Georgia, Co-PI Mediator Skills Project)\ "An important "must-read" for anyone who is contemplating mediation. John Winslade and Gerald Monk are consummately qualified to bring us this book that is rich in a social constructionist understanding and revolutionary in approach. Focusing on stories of respect, mutuality, consideration, and support, their suggestions can only lead to new possibilities of peaceful coexistence—on both personal and global levels." (Victoria C. Dickerson, cofounder, planet-therapy.com and coauthor, If Problems Talked: Narrative Therapy in Action)\ \ \
