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Power, Emotion and Culture in Change Making Facilitation and Mediation/Social Justice Mediation Institute and Quabbin Mediation

  • 27 Nov 2018
  • 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01002, UMASS Campus Center #917

The Social Justice Mediation Institute & Quabbin Mediation invite you to a workshop with Dr. Beth Roy titled, "Power, Emotion and Culture in Change Making Facilitation and Mediation."


Power dynamics and culture impact facilitation and mediation and present not only challenges for intervenors but opportunities to enable profound change to occur.


Some years ago, Beth Roy successfully mediated a highly charged issue of gentrification in a San Francisco neighborhood which she wrote about in The Bernal Story: Mediating Class and Race in a Multicultural Community (Syracuse U. Press, 2014). In this workshop, she will explore constructive ways of facilitating and mediating in the face of power, culture, and emotion building on her work in Bernal. She will examine how a successful process is an opportunity for people to learn communication skills, to clear the air, and to work through profound differences. It helps disputants to move into a collaborative frame of mind, making the actual negotiation of changes and agreements a thing of grace.


The workshop teaches ways of working with all three elements: power, culture and emotion. Through lecture, exercises and demonstration, participants learn concepts and skills to enhance their facilitation skill set.


Beth Roy, PhD, is a long-time mediator and workshop leader in the San Francisco Bay Area. Trained as a sociologist at University of California, Berkeley, she teaches there in the Peace and Conflict Studies program. Dr. Roy is a founder of the Practitioners Research and Scholarship Institute (PRASI), a network of writers dedicated to supporting academic and other professional authors to regard lived experience as the basis of research and to write their knowledge for publication. She co-edited Re-Centering Culture and Knowledge in Conflict Resolution Practice (Syracuse University Press, 2008).


Registration for the event includes a fee of only $25, and payment at the door is accepted, although registration in advance is highly encouraged to help with light snack preparations. For registration, contact Leah Wing by email at aleahwing@gmail.com. Payments should be made out to the Social Justice Mediation Institute, P.O. Box 1223, Amherst, MA 01004. Parking is available next the Lincoln Campus Center, UMASS Amherst.

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