Professional practice
Dynamic Mediation
Practical strategies for complex disputes and high-conflict situations
A practitioner’s method developed into a clear, usable book for mediators and leaders working in difficult conflict.
Most mediation training still treats a dispute as a problem between two people. This book argues that habit is the limit. It reads conflict as a disturbance in a living system: feedback loops, an equilibrium the parties have lost, and a history that keeps reproducing the fight.
It opens with the debates around Transformative Mediation, then brings cybernetics and systems thinking to the parts of practice that resist a script: learning, emotion, and negotiation. The final chapter assembles the Dynamic Mediation™ model as a five-layer diagram and places every technique on its layer, so theory and practice can be checked against each other.
- Inside the book
- Conflict as disequilibrium, and the work of reaching a new, sustainable equilibrium
- The five layers of the model: solution building, evaluating progress, collective learning, preferred future, and hope language
- Feedback, disturbance, and viable systems, brought into the mediation room
- Who it’s for
- Dispute-resolution researchers, advanced practitioners, and academics who want the theory under the method.
- Edition
- Published 2022 · Paperback and eBook
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