Family Mediations
Mediation is facilitated negotiation.
Our negotiation styles are a product of our families of origin; in order to become more effective negotiators we need to think of ourselves as more than separate individuals, but fragments of families.
The conflict styles we develop there are the blueprint for our relationship with others and manifest in the organizations where we work. Especially for family-run organizations, understanding the “family dance” and the processes for managing difficult conversations is essential.
Under the guidance of pioneering family therpaist, Jody Scheier, MSW, LICSW, BCD and Mindful Negotiating has developed: a Weekend-Intensive Negotiating with Family Workshop.
Mindful Negotiating Selected Resources
The Grammar of Wealthy Families: Healthy Communication and Constructive Conflict Management.
“Grammar of the Wealthy Family discusses communication about … important and sensitive issues within the family. Traditionally, the answers are framed top-down, within the leading generation’s tunnel vision: the head of the family decides what the future should look like. Can such planning, strictly implementing the wishes of the head of the family, be sustainable?”
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Opening Up: The Parenting Journey
“Including a foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Opening Up is a chronicle of the struggles and triumphs of families suffering the internalized stresses from poverty, domestic abuse, racism, and neighborhood violence, among other challenges. Through Parenting Journey these families resolve harmful habits and identify their strengths to raise their children in a healthier environment.”
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The Family Crucible: The Intense Experience of Family Therapy
“This extraordinary book presents scenarios of one family’s therapy experience and explains what underlies each encounter. You will discover the general patterns that are common to all families—stress, polarization and escalation, scapegoating, triangulation, blaming, and the diffusion of identity—and you will gain a vivid understanding of the intriguing field of family therapy.”
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