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The latest issue of the Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal (Volume 34 Part 1) contains the following material:

EDITORIAL – General Editors: David Spencer and Professor Pauline Collins

  • From the Guest Editor
  • Agency, Mindset, and Ethics: Threads Binding the Edition
  • Differences Worth Preserving
  • Practical Invitations for Practitioners and Organisations
  • Looking Ahead

Articles

Youth Conflict Coaching: Empowering Youth and Expanding Emotional Competence – Tricia S Jones PhD

Conflict coaching has a long and impressive history as a dispute resolution process in workplace, family and community contexts. However, its application has been largely restricted to adult parties coached by adults. This article reports on Youth Conflict Coaching (YCC) in the United States and discusses YCC programs conducted in K-12 educational contexts, differences from adult models of conflict coaching, YCC program implementation best practices, and YCC program challenges and future directions. YCC has been used in several large-scale projects for the past decade with a focus on urban, at-risk middle and high school students. Conflict coaching for youth requires a youth-based model of conflict coaching that is appropriate for their developmental level and that provides empowerment and builds emotional competencies.

Coaching for a Constructive Conflict Mindset – Dr Samantha Hardy

Conflict is inevitable, yet how people think about it determines whether it becomes destructive or constructive. This article introduces the concept of a constructive conflict mindset – a set of beliefs and expectations that shape how individuals interpret and engage with conflict. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, and conflict resolution theory, it identifies six key elements: recognising conflict, embracing complexity and curiosity, maintaining flexibility, allowing vulnerability, engaging actively and making choices, and reflecting on the past while focusing on the future. The article argues that developing such a mindset is a necessary precursor to effective conflict management and that conflict coaching provides an ideal vehicle for cultivating it. Unlike training, which transfers knowledge, coaching offers a relational and reflective process that supports lasting mindset change. By helping clients examine and reframe their assumptions, conflict coaching builds enduring capacity for constructive conflict engagement in all areas of life.

Conflict Coaching Techniques and Skills for Restorative Justice Convenors – Judith  Rafferty and Richard Dening

This article examines how conflict coaching skills and techniques can enhance the preparatory work of restorative justice (RJ) convenors. It focuses on convenors’ individual interactions with participants – the person harmed, the person responsible, and their supporters – and identifies key approaches from conflict coaching that assist in preparing parties for an RJ conference. Drawing on the experiences of RJ practitioners and conflict coaches, the article highlights practical applications, areas of alignment and tension between the roles, and recommendations for training RJ convenors in conflict coaching. The discussion focuses on techniques from the REAL Conflict Coaching System, in which the authors are trained.

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