Read with me has the purpose of addressing good practices through the re-reading of works that offer ideas of value to the exercise of Mediation and Facilitation of Dialogues. For each title, the specialist and founder of MEDIARE, Tania Almeida, will present a selection of practical highlights in order to offer a differential for the performance of professionals in the area, added to the valuable reflections collected during her 25 years in the exercise of Mediation.
How to get to YES with yourself - the first step in any negotiation, conflict or difficult conversation
By Tania Almeida * With publication date of 2015, William Ury, co-author of 'How to get to SIM, without making concessions', and co-founder of the Harvard Negotiation Project, delights us with yet another methodology focused on negotiation. This time, after years of practice, it comes to the overwhelming conclusion that [...]
Trading at an unbalanced table - a practical approach to working with difference and diversity
By Tania Almeida * The first edition of 'Negotiating at an Uneven Table: A Practical Approach to Working with Difference and Diversity' - “Negotiating at an unbalanced table: a practical approach to work with difference and diversity” dates from 1994, in which Phyllis Beck [...]
The Power of the Positive No - how to say No and still get to Yes
By Tania Almeida * Perhaps because he is an anthropologist, William Ury has always surprised me by the ability to build ideas and make reflections that express human interaction in the world of negotiations. In the line of attention to humanity, Ury says that our fears are our biggest obstacles to say [...]
Appreciative Inquiry: a positive approach to change management
By Tania Almeida * David Cooperrider and Diana Whitney are pioneers in the idea of diagnosing the health of companies and organizations in general. The professor and researcher of organizational behavior and the consultant dedicated to processes of organizational change, especially in the presence of new [...]
The protagonism of emotion in decision making
By Tania Almeida * Daniel Shapiro and Roger Fisher, both from Harvard Law School's Negotiation Project, put emotion as the 'background' of the negotiations when they wrote Beyond Reason: the power of emotion in conflict resolution (Beyond Reason: using emotions as you negotiate). At [...]
Mediation Toolbox - practical and theoretical contributions
By Tania Almeida * The book Toolbox in Mediation - practical and theoretical contributions (Dash Editora) inaugurates the Read with Me project. As in my training, multidisciplinarity is a strong feature of the work, which does not favor research lines or particular theoretical-practical contributions. THE [...]