The Reflective, Facilitative, and Interpretive Practice of the Coordinated Management of Meaning: Making Lives and Making Meaning
Author(s): Beth Fisher-Yoshida (Editor), Catherine Creede (Editor), Placida Gallegos (Editor), Karen Bentley (Contributor), Linda Blong (Contributor), Lydia Forsythe (Contributor), Jeff Hutcheson (Contributor), Jeff Leinaweaver (Contributor), Paige Marrs (Contributor), Darrin S. Murray (Contributor), Adair Linn Nagata (Contributor), Kim Pearce (Contributor), W Barnett Pearce (Contributor), Jane Peterson (Contributor), Irene Stein (Contributor), Ilene Wasserman (Contributor)
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Publication Date: 12 April 2012
Language: English
Print length: 318 pages
ISBN-10: 1611475139
ISBN-13: 9781611475135
Book Description
The Reflective, Facilitative and Interpretive Practices of the Coordinated Management of Meaning: Making Lives, Making Meaning, showcases practical applications of the theory of Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM). In the facilitation section, CMM creates dynamics within groups leading toward improved ways of working together; in the interpretation section CMM offers alternative frames to interpret interactions with one another; and in the reflection section CMM is a means to reflect on experiences and interactions to deeper levels of understanding and learning. CMM is grounded in social constructionism, takes a communication perspective and provides concepts and tools for making better social worlds.
Editorial Reviews
Review
This volume offers a rich resource for understanding the complexity of communication processes and how we might ‘act wisely in(to) critical moments.’ For the first time, the theory and practice of the Coordinated Management of Meaning is compiled within one volume, moving us toward generative understandings of how we can facilitate the creation of better social worlds . ‘Communication is consequential’ and the contributors to this volume have made that abundantly clear. — Sheila McNamee, Professor of Communication, University of New Hampshire and Vice President, the Taos Institute
This book is bottled lightning for practitioners who not only want a good theory as grounding for their work, but also want a theory that listens to and engages with practices of all kinds. CMM is that theory, and communication theorists who want to see how theory and practice can be dialogic partners can stop looking. — Arthur Jensen, Senior Associate Dean, Syracuse University
About the Author
Catherine Creede is partner in the Potential Group. Beth Fisher-Yoshida is CEO of Fisher Yoshida International, LLC and Director of the MS in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at Columbia University. Placida Gallegos is professor of Human and Organization Development at Fielding Graduate University. Cover image: Courtesy of Barnett and Kim Pearce.
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