Conflict Dialogue : Working with Layers of Meaning for Productive Relationships

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ISBN: 9781412909303 | 1412909309
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Copyright: 7/6/2006

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Conflicts are more effectively managed if people understand the layers meaning in their conflicts and collaborate based on those meanings. In this book, author Peter M. Kellett analyzes and interprets real-life conflict stories as a way to create opportunities for more productive ways to navigate and resolve conflict.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Conflict Stories, Dialogue, and Negotiation: Concepts and Techniques

(94)

1. Stories and the Meaning of Conflicts

(29)

What Makes a Good Conflict Story?

(8)

Why Stories Are Good Starting Points for Interpretive Research

(5)

The Challenges and Opportunities of Meaning for the Narrative Researcher

(7)

How to Collect a Good Story as Research Data

(3)

Lessons From the Field of Practice: An Exercise for Understanding and Showing the Meaning of Conflict

(1)

Conclusion

(2)

2. From Meaning—to Dialogic Negotiation to New Meaning

(29)

How to Use Research Techniques to Explicate the Meaning of Conflicts

(2)

Some Helpful Theoretical Background in Sources of Conflict

(4)

How Dialogue and Negotiation Build On and Create New Meanings in Conflicts

(13)

Skills for Energizing Conflict Communication Toward Dialogic Negotiation

(5)

Lessons From the Field of Practice: An Exercise for Further Analysis of Dialogic Negotiation

(1)

Conclusion

(2)

3. Language as the Fabric of Conflict—and the Foundation for Dialogic Negotiation

(34)

Language, Intensity, Energy, and Meaning

(7)

Metaphors, Imagery, and Symbolic Fabric of Conflict

(6)

Speech, Silence, and the Possibility for Dialogue

(6)

Dialogic Negotiation as Conversational Scripts

(4)

Lessons From the Field of Practice: Exercises for Exploring the Language of Conflict

(6)

Conclusion

(2)

Part II: Conflict Stories and the Negotiation of Relationship Dynamics

(48)

4. We Belong Together but We Still Have Conflict: Negotiating Synchronicity in Relationships

(24)

Relational Synchronicity and Conflict

(3)

Understanding and Negotiating Conflict as Clues to Nightmare Relationships

102

(3)

Understanding and Negotiating True Love: When Dreams Come True

105

(5)

Graveside Dialogues: Conversations I Should Have Had but Didn't

110

(9)

Lessons From the Field of Practice: Exploring Synchronicity and Symmetry in Your Conflicts

119

(1)

Conclusion

120

(1)

5. Where Do We Go From Here? Negotiating Through—and Learning From—Crossroads Moments in Relationships

121

(22)

Understanding the Meaning of Crossroads Moments

123

(1)

Relational Motifs: Look How Far We Have Come

124

(4)

Understanding and Negotiating Patterns of Light and Dark

128

(6)

Understanding and Negotiating the Meaning of Differences

134

(5)

Lessons From the Field of Practice: Working From Crossroads Moments to Where You Want to Go

139

(2)

Conclusion

141

(2)

Part III: Stories and the Psychodynamics of Conflict

143

(58)

6. What Is This Really About? Working With Displacement in Conflict Communication

145

(28)

Symbolic Displacement and the Meaning of Conflict

147

(5)

Dangers and Opportunities of Displacement and Conflict Dynamics

152

(2)

Forms and Functions of Symbolic Displacement in Conflict

154

(5)

Symbolic Displacement as a More or Less Conscious Stratagem

159

(5)

Symbolic Displacement as Conflicted Desire

164

(5)

Lessons From the Field of Practice: Exercises for Exploring Displacement

169

(2)

Conclusion

171

(2)

7. What Do We Represent to Each Other? Understanding Projection and Negotiating Conflict

173

(28)

Learning to Read Between the Projections

176

(6)

Projection and the Symbolic Relationship of People in Conflict

182

(5)

Projection and Conflict Discourse Patterns and Dynamics

187

(2)

The Connection Between Projection and Enemy Making and Blame

189

(2)

The Limiting Effects of Projection

191

(2)

From Projection to Integration: Negotiating New Meanings

193

(4)

Lessons From the Field of Practice: An Exercise for Exploring Projection in Conflict

197

(2)

Conclusion

199

(2)

Part IV: Using Story Dynamics to Understand and Negotiate Conflict

201

(60)

8. Heroes and Sheroes, Villains, Victims, and Fools: Using Story Archetypes to Understand Conflicts

203

(23)

Archetypes, Meaning, and the Construction of Conflict Stories

206

(4)

Some Cautionary Notes on Interpreting Archetypes

210

(1)

Questioning Archetypes in a Family Conflict

211

(4)

Impasses, Double Binds, and Conflict Archetypes

215

(5)

Using Three-Cornered Narratives to Open Up Story Possibilities

220

(3)

Lessons From the Field of Practice: An Exercise for Further Analysis of Narrative Archetypes

223

(1)

Conclusion

224

(2)

9. Learning to Tell the Next Chapter: Story Archetypes and the Negotiation and Mediation of New Meanings in Conflicts

226

(20)

Archetypes as Opportunities for Dialogue, Negotiation, and Mediation

228

(5)

Learning to Tell the Next Chapter Through Narrative Mediation

233

(7)

Lessons From the Field of Practice: An Exercise in Creative Scripting

240

(4)

Conclusion

244

(2)

10. Putting It All Together: From an Old Story—to a New Meaning—to a New Story

246

(15)

The Learning Cycle of Conflict Narratives

251

(9)

Conclusion

260

(1)

References

261

(8)

Index

269

(18)

About the Author

287

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Conflict Dialogue : Working with Layers of Meaning for Productive Relationships

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