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Personalities Involved in Narrative Mediation
Dr. Sara Cobb is Director of the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR) at George Mason University. As ICAR provides graduate degrees in conflict resolution, Dr. Cobb works to support both the production of original research, but also the integration between theory and practice. As a faculty, she teaches theory, research and practice-based courses on negotiation and the transformation of disputes. In her role as Director, she provides liaison between ICAR and other private sector agencies/corporations, at national and international levels.
Dr. Cobb has a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Through her research, she has specialized in the analysis of conflict narratives and has contributed to the critique of "neutrality" in conflict resolution processes. Dr. Cobb has published widely in communication studies and legal studies, supported by Grants from the Ford Foundation and the UN High Commission on Refugees. She has held both administrative and academic positions at a variety of research institutions including Harvard Law School, University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Connecticut. She has consulted to a host of family-owned businesses in North and South America, as well as to public and private organizations, including UN High Commission on Refugees, La Caxia Bank, and Exxon, to name a few. She has conducted training for the American Bar Association, Fox Learning Academy and a number of universities in Europe and Latin America. The blend of academic research, program development, and practice enables Dr. Cobb to offer both systematic critique of traditional methods for conflict intervention, as well as new methods for intervention that focus on the transformation of narratives in conflict processes.
Alison Cotter (MEd) is a mediator in the Employment Relations Service in Hamilton, New Zealand, working under the umbrella of the Employment Relations Act 2000. Her work involves mediating the range of employment relationship problems which can arise between employers, employees and Unions, from ongoing relationship issues, to collective bargaining and personal grievances.
Alison developed an interest in Narrative / Constructivist approaches to mediation through Masters Studies at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand. She gained experience with Waikato Mediation Services, a company established to provide mediation services in business, health, social services and environmental sectors, as well as to reflect on and refine mediation practices within the group. Prior to working fulltime in the mediation field, she worked for many years as a teacher and manager in the tertiary education sector.
Alison has co-authored a number of articles on mediation:
"Moving from Problem-solving to Narrative Approaches to Mediation" in Narrative Therapy in Practice: the Archaeology of Hope; (1997) edited by Monk G, Winslade J, Crocket K, & Epston D; Jossey-Bass, San Francisco (co-authored with John Winslade); and
"In theory: A Narrative Approach to the Practice of Mediation" in Negotiation Journal Volume 14, Number 1, January 1998 (co-authored with John Winslade and Gerald Monk).
For the past fifteen years Sue Davidson has worked in the non-government and community sectors as Manager of multi-project and multi-funded organizations. She holds a post-graduate Advanced Certificate in Narrative Therapy from the Dulwich Centre, a Masters degree in Social Science (Counselling) and is an accredited mediator.
Currently, Sue works part time as a Sexual Assault Counsellor and provides consultation, learning and supervision to workers and organizations interested in exploring ways of working that encourage cooperative and collaborative work practices. She also offers organisational and clinical supervision to project managers, coordinators and counsellors; mediation and counselling to workplaces, groups, families, couples and individuals and narrative learning experiences in mediation and counselling. With her friend and colleague, Debbie Dunn, she offers a three-day workshop for those interested in learning more about Narrative Mediation.
Sue is interested in ideas and ways of working that encourage respectful and inclusive work practices. She is interested in how power, knowledge and 'truth' are negotiated in large cultural systems and the meanings and practices of 'collaboration' between agencies and organizations.
Debbie Dunn (bio forthcoming)
Wally McKenzie (bio forthcoming)
Dr. Wolfgang Miller, geb.1958, working in Vienna as a lawyer, specialised in labour and family law, mediation and ADR, practising mediation mainly in co- mediation, especially in cases of divorce and separation, trainer in mediation training programs, interested in different techniques of mediation. Practising narrative mediation, thinking very much about it and teaching narrative mediation in workshops in Austria. Some articles about mediations have been published . I am interested in conversation and contact concerning narrative mediation.
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 member of both the
San Diego Superior Court Civil Mediation Panel and the San Diego Mediation
Center. 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,
& the 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. link to personal website: http://edweb.sdsu.edu/CSP/faculty/Monk/contact.html
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.
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