INKOVEMA Podcast „Well through time“

#117 – Understanding conflict.

A turning point for conflict counselling and mediation?

What we can learn about mediative ideas on impartiality, neutrality and mediating negotiation support.

In conversation with Prof Dr Fritz B. Simon

Well through time. The podcast about mediation, conflict coaching and organisational consulting.

Prof Dr Fritz Bernhard Simon, fbs:

  • Initially studied medicine and sociology and then trained as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
  • Co-founder of the Heidelberg Institute for Systemic Research, Therapy and Counselling.
  • 1982-1989 – Senior consultant in the psychoanalytic department at Heidelberg University for several years and later from
  • 1999-2004 Professor of Leadership and Organisation at the Witten Institute for Family Business (Witten-Herdecke University).
  • He is also co-founder and managing partner of Carl-Auer-Verlag, Heidelberg, and
  • Co-founder of the organisational consulting firm Simon, Weber & Friends GmbH.
  • He is also a highly productive author of specialist books and articles on all relevant aspects of counselling work in our time.

Contents:

War is the resolution of a conflict in which both sides jeopardise their existence.

  • Own relationship to conflicts
  • System-theoretical understanding of conflicts
  • Consequences of drawing the conflict from the concept of communication
  • Self-organisation of conflicts
  • Differentiation between private and social conflicts
  • Symmetry stabilisation by the parties to the conflict through non-abandonment
  • Maintaining autonomy by fighting on
  • Start of negotiations: When both sides no longer assume they can win more by war than by negotiation
  • Mediation service? – If the parties to the conflict want it! At best
  • Mediative ideas of neutrality, impartiality and mediative negotiation support
  • Naivety and megalomania in conflict observation
  • And what does the B. mean for Fritz B. Simon?