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Teaching Opposites
This simulation is intended to focus mediators on “core emotional concerns” that might have been triggered in the parties – 2 teachers. It references the “core concerns model” outlined in Fisher and Shapiro’s Beyond Reason: Using Emotions as You Negotiate (Penguin 2006), adapted to a mediation context. The teaching point is that when practicing “active listening,” a mediator is wise to target paraphrastic restatements to the core concerns they hear in the parties’ situation or statement.
Teaching Opposites Mediation: Teaching Note (PDF)
Teaching Opposites Mediation: Confidential Information for Dale Watkins, Teacher (PDF)
Teaching Opposites Mediation: Confidential Information for PJ Gannon, Teacher (PDF)
Client Science: Chapter 4 (PDF)