"Narrative Mediation” - A Story Worth Listening To?

Debbie Dunn

What does it mean to engage in practices of mediation informed by Narrative Therapy?
What difference does it make to the role of the mediator?
What “taken for granted truths” about mediation are challenged by working in this way?
What opportunities and possibilities become more available to those in disagreement when the mediator works “narratively”?
How does it honour knowledges informed by different cultures?
What difference does this make to what “the parties” take away from the mediation?

These and other questions will be explored through conversations and the presentation of some of the proposals for the practices of Narrative Therapy in a mediation context.

Debbie Dunn is an accredited mediator with LEADR and is the current Chair of the Chapter in South Australia.

She has a long history of working in and with organizations. She has been a General Manager of a multi-national company, a Company Secretary, a Human Resources Manager and has operated her business Accord Therapy & Mediation Services since 1994.

She holds a post graduate diploma in Narrative Therapy and it is these proposals that now inform her work with individuals, couples, groups and organizations.

Debbie has a long held interest in the practices organizations engage in and the effects of these practices on people, their lives and their relationships. This has led her work into the area of Workplace Bullying.

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