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Understanding Transference and Countertransference in Conflict Management
Today, I would like discuss the concepts of transference and countertransference in conflict management. This topic is rarely taught in training programs but often arises—usually unrecognized—in conflict management: conflict resolution, conflict mediation, and conflict coaching. Transference is an unconscious process where a person remembers feelings from a person in the past and projects those feelings…
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Transformative Mediation Theory
Transformative Mediation Theory Today I want to discuss another mediation theory that concentrates on the clients’ conflict interaction and assists them in improving that interaction. Originally developed by Bush and Folger in the early 1990s and further expanded upon by other mediation theorists, it has become an effective theory in mediation and has been updated…
