Transformative Mediation for your Code of Conduct & Community Management Toolkit
summary
Argues that transformative mediation fits open source Code of Conduct and interpersonal conflicts better than evaluative or purely facilitative methods by emphasizing empowerment shifts and recognition shifts. Uses concrete techniques—reflection, summarizing, checking in—to move parties from defensive cycles to constructive ones, requires voluntary participation, and supports restorative or transformative justice goals. Claims these tools are simple to learn, produce more durable, self-determined agreements, and scale from informal de-escalation to formal mediated sessions.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Start
- 0:58Transformative Mediation
- 4:41Mediation and Conflict Resolution
- 4:51What Is Mediation
- 6:03Benefits
- 9:30Restorative Justice
- 19:27Narrative Mediation
- 19:39Theory Underlying this Approach to Mediation
- 21:18The Transformative Approach to Mediation
- 21:41Conflict Can Be Constructive or Destructive
- 23:26Cycles of Conflict
- 24:03Conflict Cycle
- 25:55What a Transformative Mediator Is Doing
- 28:43Reflection
- 31:05Checking in
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