Making Mediation Your Day Job, Part 2: The Art of Framing How You Help

September 11, 2006 · Print This Article

Mediators understand the art of problem framing. Effective frames, whether generated by the parties, by the mediator or through the joint effort of all involved, help reconceptualize a problem and make it more manageable or solvable.

Just as you help disputing parties reconceptualize the problems they face, Part 2 of this book will ask you to consider how you’re framing how you help people in conflict and Part 3 will invite you to reconsider the ways you’re farming you practice-building problems. By examining the mental frames you bring to your marketing and promotional efforts, and perhaps reframing some of them, you will begin to open up new possibilities for how you approach those tasks and the energy you bring to them.

If you’re new to the work of mediation and not yet familiar with the art of problem framing, this section of the book should assist you with learning more about it and how it can help open up thinking about a problem. If you’re well-versed in problem framing, then this section will invite you to turn your good mediator skills inward.

Either way, let’s begin putting your mediator skills to work for you outside the mediation room.

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