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Meditation skills for the mediation process: Complementary practices and epistemological considerations
Meditation skills for the mediation process: Complementary practices and epistemological considerations
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Abstract: This paper presents how meditation practices can be used throughout the mediation process. Skills for both mediators and disputants are presented. Additionally, different epistemological frameworks for mediation and meditation are provided and discussed. A postmodern critique of neoliberal ideals of individuals as objective and stable units independent of social context is presented. An approach of mediation and relational meditation is offered that acknowledges and incorporates cultural, historical, racial, gendered and other discourses as critical aspects to consider as the mediator facilitates alternative narratives and new relational positions for the participants. Regardless of one’s epistemological frameworks, this paper presents skills for all participants in the mediation process to practice deep listening, respectful communication, mindfulness and flexibility for achieving new resolutions.
Author Biography:
Jerry Gale is the Director of the Family Therapy Doctoral Program in the Department of Human Development and Family Science at the University of Georgia (UGA). He was trained in mediation in the 1990s and was part of the Mediator Skills Project at UGA with Margaret Herman. He has been involved with meditation since the late 1970’s and is involved with meditation as a relational practice for responsive social action.
Publication Date: 16 June 2017
Gale, J. E. (2017). Meditation skills for the mediation process: Complementary practices and epistemological considerations. Mediation Theory and Practice, 2(1), 54–68. https://doi.org/10.1558/mtp.32195
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