Mediatorship is a concept that cultivates conflict wisdom and interconnectivity, spanning from the intrapersonal to the societal. In my course, An Introduction to Conflict Resolution at Creighton University, I use conflict narratives to develop reflexivity in a generative process. Students use autoethngography and duoethnograhy to link knowledgeability with lived experience. They learn about the field’s discourses through the various epochs of conflict resolution. Accompaniment, conflict transformation, and the importance of witnessing are also given importance through the course literature. Students develop Transformagram Portfolios through a Transformagram Pedagogy. In this way, they transform their Life-o-grams into Transformagrams. Students are also asked to make an artistic representation of their conflicts, activating the transcendent Jungian function. This transformational learning pedagogy allows students to connect with their inner compass and walkthrough their conflict/illness narratives. In this approach, conflict as illness provides a holistic lens for conflict resolution processes. Students learn to activate the homing in mechanism, using the vessel of mediatorship to discover the transformational passageway towards what Lederach refers to as justicepeace.
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