Mediators handbook
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The Mediator's Handbook presents a time-tested, step-by-step model for helping people work through conflict from first contact through reaching a lasting resolution. The Toolbox section details the skills mediators need to understand conflict,facilitate the process, and help participants make decisions.
THE CLASSIC RESOURCE FOR EFFECTIVE MEDIATION - NOW FULLY UPDATED AND EXPANDED
A beautiful book, written with a deep understanding of the mediator's art...
-- Hideaki Irie, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Kyushu University
Can you really make the classic book in its field even better? Authors Jennifer Beer and Caroline Packard prove the answer is a resounding "Yes!" Bravo!
-- G. Richard Shell, Thomas Gerrity Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Wharton School of Business; author of Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People
I have taught from previous editions for 25 years, and this new edition is even better, with new insights into conflict and new strategies that work.
-- Susan Sgorbati, Director, The Conflict Resolution Program, Bennington College, Jones Chair for Social Activism.
The Mediator's Handbook presents a time-tested, adaptable model for helping people work through conflict. Now extensively revised to incorporate recent practice and thinking, it lays out the process step by step, from first contact with the parties, to forging a resolution. The "Toolbox" section explains each concept and skill mediators need to guide the process, support the participants and help them reach decisions.
Long a popular course textbook used by universities, high schools, and training programs, The Mediator's Handbook is also a valued desk reference for professional mediators, and a down-to-earth guide for managers, organizers, teachers and anyone working with clients, customers, volunteers, committees or teams.
Jennifer Beer, PhD, an anthropologist, trainer, and facilitator, mediates in communities and organizations and teaches Negotiation & Dispute Resolution at the Wharton School.
Caroline Packard, JD, a family and organizational mediator and trainer, led Friends Conflict Resolution Programs for fifteen years, and was before that a corporate litigator.
Eileen Stief was a key early developer of the Friends Conflict Resolution Programs model on which the Handbook is based, and trained a whole generation of mediators.
The popular "Mediator's Handbook" presents a time-tested, adaptable model for helping people work through conflict. Extensively revised to incorporate recent practice and thinking, the accessible manual format lays out a clear structure for new and occasional mediators, while offering a detailed, nuanced resource for professionals. Starting with a new chapter on assessing conflict and bringing people to the table, the first section explains the process step-by-step, from opening conversations and exploring the situation, through the phases of finding resolution deciding on topics, reviewing options, and testing agreements. The "Toolbox" section details the concepts and skills a mediator needs in order to: Understand the conflict; Support the people; Facilitate the process; Guide decision-making. Throughout the book, the emphasis is on what the mediator can do or say NOW, and on the underlying principles and core methods that can help the mediator make wise choices. Long a popular course textbook for high schools, universities, and training programs, this Handbook is also a valued desk reference for professional mediators, and a practical guide for managers, organisers, teachers and anyone working with clients, customers, volunteers, committees or teams.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 oktober 2012
Aantal pagina's: 194
Illustraties: Met illustraties
Hoofdauteur: Jennifer E Beer
Tweede Auteur: Eileen Stief
Co Auteur: Eileen Stief
Hoofdillustrator: Elizabeth Elwood Gates
Hoofduitgeverij: New Society Publishers
Editie: 4
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 211 mm
Product hoogte: 18 mm
Product lengte: 274 mm
Studieboek: Ja
Verpakking breedte: 215 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 15 mm
Verpakking lengte: 275 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 738 g
EAN: 9780865717220