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Courses on Narrative Mediation
Narrative Mediation Course
...If you a practitioner working in a conflict domain or an educator training people in skills for conflict resolution
...If you are searching for new ideas in mediation theory and practice
...If you are a mediator or negotiator in business contexts or if you work with families, couples, or in schools
Participate in a two-day workshop on narrative approaches to mediation.
Add to your skills repertoire and add brand new skills in managing conflict in order to:
- Address serious relational conflict between parties with a history
- Manage the display of strong angry emotions exhibited in a conflict resolution process
- Disrupt cyclical blaming and hateful interactions between parties
- Build alliances and relationships of understanding from the remnants of chaos, distrust and discord
- Attend to the complexities of cultural factors impacting upon the conflict
Learn the following new skills in conflict resolution:
- Externalizing conversations
- Relative influence questioning
- Mapping the effects of problems on persons
- Constructing alternative stories of cooperation
Where: Doubletree Hotel, Hazard Center Drive, San Diego
When: May 7-8, 2004
Cost: $275.00
Narrative mediation is a culturally focused practice that is based upon the notion that our lives are shaped by the stories that people tell about us and by the stories that we tell ourselves. The goal of the narrative mediator is to co-author stories that highlight strengths and competencies, rather than conflict. It helps people separate themselves from conflict-saturated stories and gives them the opportunity to re-author relationships in more peaceful, cooperative, and respectful ways. From this alternative position, the resolution of conflict can often happen much more smoothly and effectively than in traditional problem-solving approaches.
The two-day workshop will include a mixture of lecture, small group activities, discussion and participants will view a live demonstration of the narrative method.
Presenters:
Dr. Gerald Monk is a Professor at San Diego State University and teaches courses in conflict resolution and counseling interventions. He has worked as a psychologist and mediator in a successful practice over the last 20 years. His specialty areas focus upon family counseling and divorce mediation utilizing narrative approaches. Dr. Monk is a mediator with the San Diego Mediation Center, the San Diego Superior Court Civil Mediation Panel, a member of the Restorative Justice Mediation program and the Collaborative Divorce Panel in San Diego. Dr. Monk is internationally known for his work with the development and application of narrative approaches to mediation and has taught numerous workshops on this subject in Austria, Canada, New Zealand, Iceland, Mexico, & United States. His recent co-authored text with John Winslade, Narrative Mediation: A New Approach to Conflict Resolution (2000), outlines the application of narrative approaches to managing family divorce and community mediation.
Dr. John Winslade is a Professor at California State University, San Bernadino. Prior to moving to the States in 2003, he was the Director of the Counsellor Education Program at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand. In addition to his co-authorship of Narrative Mediation: A New Approach to Conflict Resolution, Dr. Winslade has co-authored three books on narrative therapy as well as a number of other articles and book chapters. He is an experienced presenter of workshops and seminars in New Zealand, Australia, the U.K. and the U.S.A.
Contact: Gerald Monk for more information, at gmonk@mail.sdsu.edu.
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