Chapter 11 Post 2

This chapter about mediation has a lot of common use people use during communication in everyday life; maybe not to the extend of it but they have related to some concepts about conflict. Fractionation is breaking down complex issues into smaller, more manageable ones. The next technique is framing which is where mediators ask neutral or friendly questions that avoid blame or passing judgement and summarize issues. Reframing is where mediators restate negatively loaded, biased, or accusatory statements made by one of the parties in more neutral terminology or restate positions. The last one common ground which consists of attitudes, values, behaviors, expectations, and goals the parties share can serve as a basis for an agreement.

I would like to use the fractionation into an example. The book basically defines it as making issues into smaller, more manageable ones. I coach high school basketball, we are team that is guard oriented, meaning that we are smaller and quicker so we can outrun teams. We are at a disadvantage when we play bigger teams that can run also, the other coaches and I have been trying to hide our deficiencies and still be successful. This year although we are not a big fan of playing a zone defense; we found out that playing it in occasionally helps us out we can rebound a little better, and there isn't much of a mismatch. Each game we approach the game differently our coaching staff is still continuing to work hard to help our team to be successful. Its a process, and each I feel like we are getting better.