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Workshops on Narrative Mediation
Below are workshops offered in narrative mediation.
Please email Dr. Gerald Monk for details about
locations and frequencies of workshops.
Included in this section are workshops on:
a. Introduction to Narrative mediation
b. Advanced Workshop on Narrative Mediation
c. Managing Difficult Relationships and Difficult Conversations
d. Narrative Interventions for Collaborative Practices
e. Working with Multi-Party Disputes
f. Restorative Justice/Restorative Practices
g. Presentation on Discourse and Conflict
Introduction to Narrative Mediation
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 with a conflicted couple.
Participants attending this workshop will learn about:
- some commonly held assumptions that impact people in conflict.
- the ideas that underpin a narrative approach to resolving conflict.
- the practices that underlie narrative ideas such as externalizing
conversations, relative influence questioning, mapping the effects, and
constructing alternative stories.
- how to help people separate themselves from the divisiveness of a
dispute and create shared meaning.
- opening new possibilities within the midst of a
conflict.
- how to acknowledge the cultural influences that impact the
parties in conflict.
Advanced Workshop on Narrative Mediation
This advanced two-day narrative mediation workshop is designed for
people
who have already had training and experience in narrative approaches to
mediation, and therapeutic interventions using a narrative metaphor for
change. The workshop also caters for experienced mediators who are familiar
with postmodern approaches to conflict resolution.
The workshop explicitly focuses upon:
- Applying techniques for immobilizing problem-saturated
narratives
- Exploring practices that build collaborative narratives
- Utilizing strategies that assist in sustaining cooperation,
collaboration and peacemaking
- Mediating and resolving conflict with multi-party disputes and
group conflict
Managing Difficult Relationships and Difficult Conversations
This course in conflict resolution and mediation is designed for people who
wish to acquire basic understandings and skills for managing and resolving
conflict. It includes basic theory and methodologies as well as
opportunities to develop skills in such areas as listening and mediation
through role playing. The course provides valuable insights and strategies
for dealing with interpersonal and group conflicts in the workplace, home,
school, neighborhood, and other community contexts. This two-day workshop
covers:
- Five approaches to dealing with hostile interactions that don't
work
- Preparing for an ugly situation
- Sweetening a difficult challenge
- Saying you're sorry with your dignity intact
- Listening to your body messages
- Preventive practices in the midst of escalating conflict
- Selective disclosures in times of danger
- De-personalising tirades
- To act or not to act
- Promoting honesty and respect in difficult times
- Giving feedback that works
The workshop uses a combination of lecture, discussion, live demonstration
and small group practice.
Narrative Interventions for Collaborative Practices
WHEN: February 2004 (Two Days)
WHERE: TBA
OFFERED TO: Divorce Coaches, Attorneys, Child Mental Health Specialists,
Mediators, Financial Advisors
DESCRIPTION: A narrative approach to collaborative divorce 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 practitioners' goal in the
collaborative divorce team is to co-author cooperative stories with the
divorcing couple that highlight their personal and relational strengths and
competencies, rather than their conflict. This approach helps people
separate themselves from conflict-saturated stories and gives them the
opportunity to re-author post-divorce relationships in more 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 narrative approach utilizes a range of
techniques including mapping the effects, relative influence questioning,
collapsing time, and tracking unique outcomes or sparkling moments to
disrupt cyclical conflictual patterns and create space for respectful and
productive engagement.
The workshop will include a mixture of lecture, small group and large group
activities, and discussion. Participants will view a live demonstration of
the application of narrative approaches in individual meetings, and in
four-way meetings with the collaborative team and the divorcing couple.
The workshop specifically focuses upon:
- Establishing the mission statement for the transition and post-divorce
phase for the couple, children and collaborative divorce team utilizing the
narrative metaphor.
- Understanding discursive patterns and their implications for moving
from traditional hierarchical relationships to equitable relationships.
- Techniques for ensuring the divorcing couple stay at the forefront of
the process while the specialist team coaches from behind.
- Strategies for freeing log jams and avoiding end runs.
- Circumventing sabotaging moves in order to keep things moving for the
parties and the collaborative team throughout the process.
- Practices that ensure the presence of the children's voices throughout
the process.
Techniques include the use of:
- Externalizing language to unite the divorcing couple against the
problem-saturated story.
- Mapping the effects of the problem story to build motivation, volition
and action.
- Internalized-other strategies for building empathy and understanding.
- Tracking unique outcomes and sparkling moments to develop the
counterplot of cooperation.
- Using reflecting teams for four-way meetings.
- Video and audiotape recordings of narrative interviews with children
and adolescents.
- Writing narrative letters that document the counterplot.
Working with Multi-Party Disputes: A One-Day Workshop
This will be an interactive workshop designed for people interested in
applying the narrative mediation metaphor into group and multi-party
contexts. The presenter will introduce two vignettes which demonstrate
narrative techniques with one group and one multi-party conflict.
Participants will be presented with the following narrative techniques:
externalizing conversation, relative influence and mapping the effects
questions, historicizing questions and alternate story development.
Opportunities to practice these techniques in small groups will be offered
to participants. Throughout the presentation links will be made between
underlying conceptual and theoretical perspective of narrative mediation and
practical interventions with diverse multi-party participants. The
presentation will conclude with discussion about the application of
narrative mediation in contexts in which the participants work.
Presentation on Discourse and Conflict (2 Hours)
Couples in the midst of separation and divorce, are typically captured by
discourses of entitlement about how their partner or ex-partner should
behave. Entitlements are non-negotiable truths about how life and
relationships should be. When partners fail to live up to relationship
entitlements, conflict ensues. This presentation addresses narrative
mediation techniques for diminishing the potency of relationship
entitlements and suggests a range of approaches to building narratives of
cooperation, understanding and respect.
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