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Seeking Help: An Elicitive Exercise

An opening exercise for mediation training that seeks to illuminate cultural understandings around navigating conflict and mediation.

1994

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The Listening Exercise

An exercise to encourage reflection and practice of deep listening.

2018

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“Two, Four, Six, Eight…Who do we appreciate?” A Dialogical Exercise for Engaging Diversity, Race, and Gender Issues

An exercise oriented toward creating a safe space for proactive dialogue and increased understanding of people’s experiences, fears, and expectations on diversity, race, and gender.

1998

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Walking, Noticing, Collective Haiku

A description of a practice oriented toward cultivating noticing and attentive awareness through the senses.

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Resolution and Transformation Perspective Comparison

A chart comparing the perspectives of conflict resolution and conflict transformation on various aspects of conflict analysis.

2000

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Moving from Reaction to Transformation

A matrix mapping questions to hold in the movement from reaction to reform to transformation of crises/issues across scales of intervention from the individual to the systemic.

1998

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The Big Picture of Conflict Transformation

A diagram representing the circular process of conflict transformation through inquiry around the presenting situation, horizon of the future, and development of change processes.

2003

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Getting to the Table: A Conciliation Exercise

An exercise simulating pre-negotiations, placing emphasis on the difficulties of getting people to the table, and is a fictionalization of the East Coast/Sandinista negotiations of the 1980s.

1997

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Framework for Analyzing Conflict

A guideline of questions to support in conflict analysis with a focus on people, process, and problem, three major aspects of conflict.

1994

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