Practicing Narrative Mediation: Loosening the Grip of Conflict

by John Winslade (California State University San Bernardino); Gerald D. Monk (San Diego State University)

• ISBN13: 9780470437698
• ISBN10: 0470437693
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-12-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

Practicing Narrative Mediation provides mediation practitioners with practical narrative approaches that can be applied to a wide variety of conflict resolution situations. Written by John Winslade and Gerald MonkNleaders in the narrative therapy movementNthe book contains suggestions and illustrative examples for applying the proven narrative technique when working with restorative conferencing and mediation in organizations, schools, health care, divorce cases, employer and employee problems, and civil and international conflicts. Practicing Narrative Mediation also explores the most recent research available on discursive positioning and exposes the influence of the moment-to-moment factors that are playing out in conflict situations. The authors include new concepts derived from narrative family work such as "absent but implicit," "double listening," and "outsider-witness practices."

Table of Contents

Preface.1. How to Work with Conflict Stories: Nine Hallmarks of Narrative Mediation.2. Negotiating Discursive Positions.3. Tracing Discursive Positioning Through a Conversation.4. Working with Cultural Narratives in Mediation.5. Divorce Mediation and Collaborative Practice with Chip Rose.6. Outsider-Witness Practices in Organizational Disputes with Allan Holmgren.7. Employment Mediation with Alison Cotter.8. Restorative Conferencing in Schools.9. Conflict Resolution in Health Care.Epilogue.References.About the Authors.Index.