Class 9: Negotiation (continued) and Movement
March 22, 2024
Readings:
Chapter 9 (Movement).
Chapter 12 (Negotiation: Refresh yourself on this reading from our last class).
Riskin, L., “Annual Saltman Lecture: Further Beyond Reason: Emotions, the Core Concerns, and Mindfulness in Negotiation,” 20 Nev. L. J. 289 (2010). (Can be picked up at the copy center) [Note that this is a long article that is worth savoring, working through it slowly over a few days. You'll note that it brings together much of what you have learned about mindfulness and its practice.
Chapter 9 (Movement).
Chapter 12 (Negotiation: Refresh yourself on this reading from our last class).
Riskin, L., “Annual Saltman Lecture: Further Beyond Reason: Emotions, the Core Concerns, and Mindfulness in Negotiation,” 20 Nev. L. J. 289 (2010). (Can be picked up at the copy center) [Note that this is a long article that is worth savoring, working through it slowly over a few days. You'll note that it brings together much of what you have learned about mindfulness and its practice.
In class this week, we will continue our discussion of Mindfulness and Negotiation, building off of Chapter 12, with a deeper dive into Professor Riskin's law review article. In it he models for you how to weave together an introduction to mindfulness and mindfulness practices and integrate it with another topic—much as each of you will do with your papers.
Please review Chapter 12 and be prepared to discuss how Professor Riskin connects the dots between the obstacles he identifies to implementing the Core Concerns (Section III) and how mindfulness practice may help overcome some or all of the obstacles (Section IV). Understanding his analysis will be useful to you in offering your reader a deeper understanding of the mechanisms by which practice mindfulness may be useful. Consider how you might apply this type of analysis in the context of your paper.
A. Core Concerns
Practice applying the Core Concerns (as a lens and a lever) this week in your interactions with others (and yourself). In class we'll discuss your experience and how it was to integrate this technique into your daily interactions and negotiations. Notice shaking Snowglobes, spinning Spirals. Continue to practice DNI and reflect on the connection between DNI and Going to the Balcony.
B. Mindful Movement
Explore bringing mindfulness into movement, drawing upon one or more of the examples discussed in Chapter 9. Be prepared to compare and contrast a mindful movement with a mindful sitting practice. To help with this, experiment bringing mindfulness into a variety of different forms of movement, from leaning from side to side while doing a sitting practice, to walking or even jogging or during a few moments of exercising.
C. Writing Assignment: Identify Three Challenges and Obstacles
Your writing assignment this week is to use this form to identify three challenging situations (i.e., Life Happens) that you may include in your paper as examples of when practicing mindfulness (and becoming a little more mindful) can be helpful and make a difference. You may find it helpful to think of three before and after situations, i.e., how a Mindful Living Flow might play out when Life Happens in a certain way prior to practicing mindfulness for about months, and how the Mindful Living Flow would play out differently after practicing mindfulness for three months.
Mindfulness Practice
—Practice the Mindfulness Practice(s) and the Settling Technique(s) you think you will be including in your paper. Many of you will end up selecting one of each. So, feel free to practice more, if you like, but keep a lookout for the one (of each) you likely will highlight in your paper.
—Next week we will learn two new practices—Connection (or LovingKindness) and Mindful Self-Compassion. In anticipation of this, in this video, former Mindfulness in Law student, Luke Arrington, guides the connection/lovingkindness practice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWbLz6uUUoI. Practice by listening to Luke at least one day this week. This practice type can seem very different from the first three you have learned. At the same, there are some common elements.