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W H A T A R E T H E W O R D S T H A T M A K E U S W H O W E A R E ?

There is a process in being free. And that process in not

written in any book, or can be understood from any wise sage or

successful man or woman. Freedom must be felt and it is in that feeling

you start to understand the

importance of its utterance. Those

words, I am free. It is in the words and their release that

you really begin to grasps, freedom. It

is now, in that release, the entire

universe, is at your beck and call, to

ensure you will not ever again, be in

bondage.

There is so much power

involved in the words we use to describe ourselves and the world

around us. Often

times we forget how powerful

our narrative can be in shaping our daily

lives. What I hope to remind you of

today is that your

words have the ability to

create, not just the life you

dream of, but the

world you envision

for yourself

and those that you

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Narrative Mediation:Transforming Conflict narratives into lifegivingOpportunities by Camille Townsend

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5/2/2011 THE POWER OF A NARRATIVE

“Superiority? Inferiority?

Why not simply try to touch the other, feel the other, discover each other?”

FRANZ FANON

THE MASTERS TOOLS WILL

NEVER DISMANTLE THE

MASTERS HOUST.

AUDRE LORDE

IF WE ARE EQUAL IN THE EYES OF GOD,

HOW COME WE ARE NOT EQUAL IN THE EYES OF

MAN?

ZAINAH ANWAR

MYTHOLOGY IS NOT A LIE.

MYTHOLOGY IS POETRY..IT IS

BEYOND WORDS, IMAGES,

BOUNDARIES.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL

NARRATIVE MEDIATION: RE-AUTHORING CONFLICT STORIES

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If the biblical text can be

trusted, She who was at the beginning,

women, affirms the cosmic and

eternal presence of God, revealing to humanity, its creator through divine wisdom, affirming her preeminent

status as woman,

GOAL 1. CREATION OF ALTERNATIVE

STORY

Sexual,Feminine,Powerful,

Gifted,Innovated,

Compassionate,Global leader,

Embodied,Mysterious,

Lover,Creative,

God incarnate and engendered

female

As chief artisan, she participates in

the world, who forms, molds, and colors the world.

Its mystery, orderliness and

beauty flows from her touch

CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION: is to envision and respond to the ebb and flowOf social conflict as life giving opportunities for creating constructive changes processesThat reduces violence, and increase justice in direct interactions and social structures and to Respond to real life problems in human relationships

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1ST

STRENGHTENING SELF

CONFLICT IS 1ST

AND FOREMOST A POTENTIAL

OCCASION FOR GROWTH IN

TWO CRITICAL AND

INTERRALATED DIMENSION OF

HUMAN MORALITY

2ND

REACHING BEYOND SELF TO

REALTE TO OTHERS

TRANSFORMATIVE MEDIATION: is premise upon a transformative orientation of conflictThat suggest that disputes can be view not as problems but opportunities for moral growth and Transformation.

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GOAL 3.OPEN SPACE OF OTHER TO MAKE

DISCURSIVE SHIFTS.

GOAL 1. CREATION OF ALTERNATIVE

STORY

GOAL 2. DESTRUCTION OF THE DOMINANCE

OF CONFLICT STORY

NARRATIVE MEDIATION: REAUTHORING CONFLICT STORIES A POST MODERN THEORY OF CULTURAL CONSTURCTIVISM IN WHICH PEOPLE EXPERIENCE OF THE WORLD ARE DIRECTLY INFLUENCED BY THE STORIES AND VALUES OF THEIR CULTURE. IN WHICH THREE BROAD GOALS ARE SOUGHT AFTER IN HOPES OF RECOGNITION OF SELF, AND EMPOWERMENT OF SELF AND OTHERS.

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Si ster Outsider and I am your

Sis ter by Audre Lorde

Pedagogy of the oppressed by Paulo Freire

The Hero with a thousand faces and The Power

of Myth byJoseph Campbell

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WHAT ARE THE STORIES OF YOUR LIFE EXPERIENCES AND DO YOU KNOW WHERE THEY ORIGINATE? WHICH ONES DO YOUWANT TO REWRITE, RECREATE, OR RELIVE?

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John Paul Lederaqh

The little book of conflict

Transformation,Good Book,

2003

John Winsladeand Gerald Monk.

Narrative Mediation: A New

Approach to Conflict

Resolution. San Francisco, CA:

Jossey-Bass, 200

The promise of Mediation:

Resonding to conflict throughtempowerment

and recognition Robert A. Baruch Bush and Joseph

P Folger. San. Franciso, CA 1994

WHAT ARE THE STORIES OF YOUR LIFE EXPERIENCES AND DO YOU KNOW WHERE THEY ORIGINATE? WHICH ONES DO YOUWANT TO REWRITE, RECREATE, OR RELIVE?

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