Samantha Hardy

Olivia Rundle

The focus of this book is on practical application of theory. The book is founded in current mediation theory relating to the range of models used in Australia, and includes detailed contextual information including the legislative frameworks for mediation in different jurisdictions. 'Mediation for Lawyers' provides practical advice and tools (checklists) for legal practitioners who represent clients in mediation.

Mediation for Lawyers

We naturally create stories to help us making meaning of our world, but in conflict situations the kinds of stories we typically tell ourselves can actually make it harder for us to manage and resolve the conflict constructively. This book provides an accessible framework for understanding why people tell their conflict stories the way they do, and how to help them move away from conflict stories that prevent them from understanding and responding to conflict in an effective way. Presented using highly engaging and accessible cases, the book is designed to help people working with others in conflict to fully support them by understanding which areas of the conflict story to focus their attention on, and using practical techniques to support people to rewrite their story into a more constructive one to better manage the situation. The book also provides practical strategies to help people who are themselves in a conflict scenario to rewrite and enact a version of their conflict story that helps them to more constructively manage, and often resolve, their situation. A conflict management coaching system is introduced that is designed to address the particular problems created by dysfunctional conflict stories. This is a book specifically for those who work with people in conflict (mediators, conflict coaches, managers, lawyers, HR staff, teachers) and also for anyone who wishes to better understand their own experience of conflict.

Working With Conflict Stories

Conflict Coaching Fundamentals

David Spencer

The second edition of Dispute Resolution in Australia: Cases, Commentary and Materials reflects the dynamic growth of dispute resolution not only in Australia, but worldwide. In recent times, dispute resolution has undergone a considered analysis of its role in society at the community, commercial, political and legal levels. Added to this is its increasing relevance to, and its impact on, other disciplines, such as counselling, psychology and the law. Taking account of all these developments in dispute resolution, this new edition brings the law up-to-date and features: A new chapter, "The Future of Dispute Resolution"; An expanded chapter, "Ethics, Standards and Dispute Resolution"; Insight into the new National Mediation Accreditation System; Incorporation of the recent family law developments; New material on recently emerged hybrid forms of dispute resolution, such as collaborative law; and Commentary on the vanishing trial phenomenon. Dispute Resolution in Australia: Cases, Commentary and Materials, 2nd Edition will be invaluable to both students and practitioners alike for its practical guidance and analysis in this ever-growing area of the law.

Samantha Hardy

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