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Connect through Mediation
To act Third party with Nonviolent Communication

By Liv Larsson
ISBN: 978-91-976671-6-6
288 pages

Synopsis in English [Adobe Acrobat PDF - 42.58 KB], if you want to publish this book in other languages.

Content of the bok [Adobe Acrobat PDF - 38.16 KB]

You can find the German and Polish translation of the book here.

Summary of the book

The book begins with an overview of mediation (chapters 1-2). Here concepts such as view of human nature, conflictview and justice are discussed. Chapters 3 and 4 contain reflections on passivity, revenge, forgiveness, shame and guilt. Thereafter follows two chapters about how Nonviolent Communication can be used in mediation (chapters 5 and 6). In order to mediate most of us need to practise, therefore the entire chapter 7 contains exercises that give you access to various tools that you can use during mediation. Chapter 8 deals with the preparation for and carrying out of formal mediation. Different ways of handling challenging mediation situations as well as the concepts of “mediation in crime” and “restorative justice” are described in chapter 9. In chapter 10 I illustrate how mediation between children can look like.

Throughout this book I have chosen to entitle the parties person A and B. My hope is that this will contribute with ease for you as a reader both in following the theoretical discussions and in doing the exercises that I suggest. Sometimes mediation involves mediating between more than two people, and here it might be more correct to call them part A and B. In this book I use examples from when I (and in some examples others as well) have mediated, and to protect people or groups some changes have been made regarding personal information or places.