How Reflection Works in Transformative Dialogue/Mediation

A Preliminary Investigation

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12875475
AutoresAngela Cora Garcia (0000-0003-1052-5364, Bentley University, autor correspondente), Erik Cleven (0000-0001-9546-5668, Saint Anselm College)
Ano2024
Volume20
Fascículo2
Páginas90-113
Data de publicação2024-04-30
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoQualitative Sociology Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1733-8077 • E-ISSN: 1733-8077
EditoraUniwersytet Lodzki (University of Lodz) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18778/1733-8077.20.2.05
OpenAlexW4396670498
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas42

Transformative dialogue and mediation (TD/M) is an approach to conflict resolution used in mediation and inter-group dialogues about social justice and race, political polarization, and ethnopolitical conflict. TD/M practitioners believe their approach supports the agency of participants and helps them interact with greater confidence, self-awareness, and understanding of the perspectives of others. However, previous research on TD/M has not yet addressed how it achieves those outcomes. This pilot study works to fill that gap by investigating how reflection, the most commonly used TD/M technique, is utilized in a facilitated meeting of the steering committee of a non-profit organization. We conduct a qualitative sequential analysis of a video-recorded interaction to investigate how TD/M reflection is done. We show how the TD/M facilitator of the meeting reflects participants’ statements with the techniques of mirroring, substituting, and omitting and how the participants respond to those reflections with agreement or repair. The results of the analysis are discussed in terms of their implications for understanding how TD/M facilitation works

Critical reflection · Epistemology · Mediation · Pedagogy · Reflection (computer programming · Social science · Sociology · Transformative learning · Computer Science · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Philosophy