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WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: Star Wars and Conflict Resolution by Jen Reynolds and Noam Ebner
When I saw the title of this book, I had to buy it! I always love links with popular culture as a way of teaching and exploring concepts. Whether or not you’re a Star Wars fan, this book will intrigue and delight you. It includes chapters with such provocative titles such as “Lightsabers and fighting
Strategies for working with emotions in mediation
I’ve recently been exploring different ways that mediators can work with emotions in conflict. It’s surprising how many different things mediators do! Here’s a compilation of strategies I found that mediators reported using. Which ones they used seems to depend very much on the model of mediation, the personal style and preferences of the mediator,
WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: No Hard Feelings by Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy
This book is so much fun to read, not least because of the clever cartoons interspersed throughout to illustrate various points. It’s a very clear, common sense approach to working with emotions in the workplace. The chapters cover the topics of health, motivation, decision making, teams, communication, culture and leadership. While the book does reference
WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: Expert Mediators by Jean Poitras and Susan S. Raines
In this book, the authors Jean Poitras and Susan Raines, present a compilation of “best practices” from expert mediators across the world in dealing with common mediation challenges. They surveyed 186 experienced mediators across the world and from these results identified the most common challenges they faced in their practice. They then selected 101 of
WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: Dignity by Donna Hicks (Author) and Desmond Tutu (Foreword)
Dr Donna Hicks is part of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. She has been involved in many large-scale international conflicts, working alongside people like Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Elders. In this book, she introduces her work on the role dignity plays in healing and reconciling relationships in conflict. She explains
Crying in conflict
Emotional crying (as opposed to tears that form when we have a foreign object in our eye) is a uniquely human phenomenon. Babies and young children cry a lot, but as we get older we tend to cry less frequently. This is partly because we have learned different ways to communicate to get our needs met (for
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