Mediating Dangerously

Description

Sometimes it's necessary to push beyond the usual limits of the mediation process to achieve deeper and more lasting change. Mediating Dangerously shows how to reach beyond technical and traditional intervention to the outer edges and dark places of dispute resolution, where risk taking is essential and fundamental change is the desired result. It means opening wounds and looking beneath the surface, challenging comfortable assumptions, and exploring dangerous issues such as dishonesty, denial, apathy, domestic violence, grief, war, and slavery in order to reach a deeper level of transformational change. Mediating Dangerously shows conflict resolution professionals how to advance beyond the traditional steps, procedures, and techniques of mediation to unveil its invisible heart and soul and to reveal the subtle and sensitive engine that drives the process of personal and organizational transformation. This book is a major new contribution to the literature ...

Description

"In this new vision of the art of conflict resolution, Kenneth Cloke shows new and accomplished mediators how to examine the inner processes and hidden personal recesses that limit their effectiveness, as well as the outside systems and structures that restrict their capacity to act on what they have learned. Cloke explores the dark places - the edges, boundaries, and possibities of mediation. He reveals how to approach dangerous conflicts - domestic violence, war, slavery, fascism, insanity, and oppression - to uncover hidden choices and transformational opportunities that help people and organizations develop, grow, and learn more about themselves. Offering a wealth of fresh possibilities, Mediating Dangerously identifies potential openings, creative techniques, and new and unusual approaches to dispute resolution. The book includes specific guidelines, questions to ask, sample dialogues, checklists, and diagrams to help readers immediately apply new techniques in their current practice."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

The words mediating and dangerously do not often appear together in the same sentence.

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Other Editions

• Mediating DangerouslyElectronic resourceJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd.2001-01-01
• Mediating DangerouslyHardcoverJossey-Bass2001-03-06
• Mediating DangerouslyWiley & Sons, Incorporated, John2007-01-01