{"id":1152,"date":"2012-11-21T14:00:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T18:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2012-11-21T14:00:14","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T18:00:14","slug":"new-and-useful-edition-of-the-mediators-handbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/new-and-useful-edition-of-the-mediators-handbook\/","title":{"rendered":"New and Useful Edition of The Mediator's Handbook"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1984, the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends <\/a>published a volume called The Mediator’s Handbook<\/em>.\u00a0 The fourth edition of this wonderful book has recently been released through the Canadian publisher New Society Publishers<\/a>.\u00a0 By now entirely independent of its initial Quaker roots, The Mediator’s Handbook <\/a>has earned the enthusiastic endorsement of such luminaries as Richard Schell of the Wharton School, Mike McIlwrath of General Electric, and Mohammed Abu-Nimer of American University.\u00a0 It is a simple, insightful, and eminently practical book that belongs on every mediator’s shelf — a well thumbed copy, that is!<\/p>\n

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Two of the most impressive attributes of this publication are its practical utility and its broad applicability.\u00a0 The way the authors introduce the process, define the fundamental terms, and describe each step of the process seems to invite the use of mediation between businesses, within organizations, in family conflicts, among community participants — all without distinction or exclusion.<\/p>\n

The second section, called “The Toolbox,” gets down to the practical skills of the facilitative mediator.\u00a0 The authors are to be congratulated if only for the ease, simplicity and directness of their pelucid style.\u00a0 But more than that — they seem to synthesize and summarize principles in a way that creates new insight.\u00a0 The delicate skill of avoiding counseling, moralizing or pushing for an outcome, while nevertheless urging the parties forward towards a solution, is particularly well laid out.<\/p>\n

The authors are Jennifer Beer <\/a>of the Wharton School, Caroline Packard<\/a> of Friends Conflict Resolution Program, and Eileen Stief<\/a>, a traner for that Program.\u00a0 It is wholeheartedly recommended for mediators of every stripe.<\/p>\n

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The Fourth Edition of The Mediator’s Handbook was released a few months ago, and it is a must-have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14,32],"tags":[41,15],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conflict-resolution","category-mediation","category-religion","tag-book-review","tag-mediation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t