Event - John Winslade

Narrative Therapy Centre

Of Toronto

John Winslade

is a co-author of Narrative Mediation: A New Approach to Conflict Resolution (2000). Copies will be sold on May 7th.

Monday May 7th, 2007

Workshop 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Text Box: Dr John Winslade is a Professor at California State University San Bernardino. He was previously a Senior Lecturer and the Director of Counsellor Education at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He teaches narrative mediation also at the University of Waterloo in Canada and at California State University. In addition to his mediation book John has co-authored three books on narrative therapy: Narrative therapy in practice: The archaeology of hope; Narrative Counseling in Schools; Re-Membering lives: Conversations with the dying and the bereaved; as well as a number of other articles and book chapters. John is a member of the Editorial Board of the Conflict Resolution Quarterly journal. He is committed to developing social practices that build on the exciting potential of narrative & social constructionist ideas to transform people’s experiences. He is an experienced presenter of workshops and seminars in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the U.K., Denmark, The Netherlands, Cyprus and the U.S.A.

Who is this workshop suitable for? This workshop is for all practitioners working with conflict and holds relevance to work with families, couples, communities and workplaces—and in situations such as divorce and family mediation.

Narrative Mediation

John Winslade Ph.D.

This workshop will introduce participants to the practice of narrative mediation and the assumptions that underlie these practices.

In the stories we tell ourselves and each other, we all seek to establish coherence for ourselves and produce lives, careers, relationships and communities. Therefore when we work with people to overcome the divisiveness of a conflict, it is often more productive to work with the stories in which the conflict is embedded than to pursue objective reality.

As well as being theoretically robust and socially just, the narrative approach to mediation has a distinctive method. It sets out to help people separate themselves from conflict-saturated stories and gives them the opportunity to re-author relations in more peaceful, cooperative and respectful ways. From this alternative relational position, the resolution of conflict can often happen much more smoothly.

Visit the Narrative Mediation website to learn more about this innovative conflict resolution paradigm:

http://narrative-mediation.crinfo.org/

The narrative mediation website provides web accessible materials regarding effective practices for developing new models of conflict analysis and resolution. This website and John’s workshop will be relevant for non-profit and governmental organizations, health professionals, and family mediators.

Narrative Therapy Centre

P.O. Box 31030, Westney Heights RPO

15 Westney Road N.

Ajax, Ontario. Canada. L1T 3V2

Phone: 905-427-8239

Fax: 905-427-8231

E-mail: contact@narrativetherapycentre.com

John Winslade Phd CLICK HERE for May 8th Workshop re: Schools

Narrative Mediation