Values
lifelong learning: developing skills for the insight approach can happen at any point in the journey of an insight practitioner.
creative engagement: we view creative projects as encompassing a spiritual aspect of our work that rigid structures may not otherwise provide. as such, we value all methods of communicating, experiencing, and expressing curiosity.
academic integrity: Our work is rooted in the critical philosophy of Bernard Lonergan. It was developed out of the masterful mediation practice of Dr. Cheryl Picard with the theoretical guidance of Lonergan scholars, Drs. Jamie Price and Kenneth Melchin. the insight approach continues to be researched and analyzed under rigorous academic standards.
Mission
To prepare practitioners for positive action by advancing the practice of curiosity within conscious decision-making processes.
Vision
an engaged community of professionals encouraging each other to use the Insight approach in innovative ways.
our goal
Insight Collaborations International was created to encourage engagement and continuous learning for professionals using the insight approach.
our journey
In 2017, a group of dedicated Insight scholars and practitioners came together around Cheryl Picard’s Prince Edward Island dining room table to establish a unified space for those who care about the growth, use and development of the Insight Approach. Our dining room conversations grew into the first Insight Summit in 2019, which grew into the first Virtual Insight Summit in 2020, and now into Insight Collaborations International. In this space, we connect people to Insight and to each other so we can grow the Insight community, as well as create a rigorous and supportive space for theory, method, learning and change. In doing so, we hope to build our individual and collective capacity to more fully thrive and influence the systems in which we live, work, play and love
Why us?
our team is well positioned to Increase Capacity for Practitioners to use the Insight Approach in their unique circumstances. We are comprised of practising insight professionals, cross-functional collaborators, insight scholars, and educators.
Books about the Insight approach
Melchin, Kenneth and Cheryl Picard. 2008. Transforming Conflict through Insight. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Picard, Cheryl A. 2016. Practicing Insight Mediation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
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Peer Reviewed Published Articles featuring the insight approach
Jull, Marnie. 2018. “Asking more than, “How did that make you feel?”: The Insight approach to feeling and valuing in conflict”. Revista de Mediación. Vol. 11 No. 1.
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Madrid Liras, Santiago. 2017 “Why a fourth mediation model: opportunities and integration of the insight mediation model”, Revista de Mediación. Vol. 10 No. 2.
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Picard, C. A. (2003), Learning about Learning: The Value of Insight”, Conflict Resolution Quarterly, 20: 477–484.
Picard, Cheryl. 2021 “Lonergan’s Philosophy of Insight and Its Significance for Conflict”, Ed. Jamie Price and David Peddle. Theoforum.
Picard, Cheryl. 2017. “The Origins, Principles and Practices of Insight Mediation”. Revista de Mediación. Vol. 10 No. 2.
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Picard, C. A. and Melchin, K. R. (2007), “Insight Mediation: A Learning Centered Mediation Model”, Negotiation Journal, vol. 23 no.1: 35–53.
Picard, Cheryl, and Janet Siltanen. 2013. “Exploring the Significance of Emotion for Mediation Practice.” Conflict Resolution Quarterly 31 (1): 31–55.
Picard, Cheryl and Marnie Jull. 2011. “Learning through Deepening conversations: A key Insight mediation strategy,” Conflict Resolution Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 2, December 151-176.
Price, Jamie. 2011. “Method in Peacemaking,” in Peacemaking: From Practice to Theory, ed. Susan Allen Nan, Zachariah Cherian Mampilly, and Andrea Bartoli, vol. 2. Denver: Praeger: 610–21.
Price, Jamie. 2013. “Explaining Human Conflict: Human Needs Theory and the Insight Approach.” In Conflict Resolution and Human Needs: Linking Theory to Practice, ed. Kevin Avruch and Christopher Mitchell, 108–23. New York: Routledge.
Price, Jamie. 2018. “Method in Analyzing Conflict Behavior: The Insight Approach”. Revista de Mediación. Vol. 11 No. 1.
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Price, Jamie and Andrea Bartoli. 2013. “Spiritual Values, Sustainable Security and Conflict Resolution.” The Routledge Handbook on Religion and Security. Edited by Chris Seiple, Dennis R. Hoover, Pauletta Otis. New York, Routledge.
Price, Jamie and Kenneth Melchin. 2010. “Rediscovering Sargent Shriver’s Vision for Poverty Law: The Illinois Familycare Campaign and the Insight Approach to Conflict Resolution and Collaboration.” Clearinghouse Review, Vol 43, No 9, January-February.
Price, Megan. 2019 forthcoming. “The Role of Human Consciousness in the Emergence of Peace and Conflict,” Transformation: Exploring Spirituality, Emergent Creativity, and Reconciliation. Ed. Vern Redekop. Toronto University Press.
Price, Megan. 2017. “Change through Curiosity in the Insight Approach to Conflict” in Revista de Mediacion: An Insight Approach Special Issue, 11(1).
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Price, Megan and Bruce Blitman 2016. “Insight Policing: A Creative Approach to Building Bridges Between Police and the Communities They Serve” Dispute Resolution Journal, 71(3).
Price, Megan and LaTriviette Young. 2016. “Investigating the Conflict Behavior in Criminal Behavior” in Translational Criminology (Fall). Center for Evidence Based Policing, George Mason University.
Price, Megan. 2016. “The Process and Partnerships Behind Insight Policing” Criminal Justice Policy Review, Special Issue: Moving Beyond Discipline: The Role of Civilians in Police Accountability, 27(5).
Price, Megan and Jamie Price. 2015. “Insight Policing and the Role of the Civilian and the Officer in Police Accountability,” Clearinghouse Review, (August 3). Follow-on interview with Shriver Center on Poverty Law via Google+
Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn7Dcwazris
Price, Megan. 2015. “Could Insight Policing Have Saved Sandra Bland, Freddie Gray and Others?” The Conversation (republished by Time, New Republic and others), (July 22). https://theconversation.com/could-insight- policing-have-saved-sandra-bland-freddie-gray-and-others-44065 Follow-on interview by NPR Southern California: http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2015/07/24/43815/could-insight-policing-save-black-lives/
Price, Megan. 2014. “Reconfiguring Traditional Prescriptive Approaches to Truth and Reconciliation Processes: Adapting the Elicitive-Centered Insight Approach for the United States,” Chapter 8 in Crimes against Humanity in the Land of the Free: Can a Truth and Reconciliation Process Heal Racial Conflict in America? Ed. Imani Michelle Scott. Praeger.
Price, Vieve. 2019 Forthcoming “The Insight Approach to Theatre: A Journey of Discovery” Theoforum: The Insight Approach to Transforming Conflict and Making Peace: Social Practice and Spiritual Action. Ed. Jamie Price and David Peddle.
Sargent, Neil, Cheryl Picard, and Marnie Jull. 2011. “Rethinking Conflict: Perspectives from the Insight Approach.” Negotiation Journal 27 (3): 343–66.
Soler, Salvador Garrido. 2017. “Insight mediation: a reflective and pedagogical model to address conflicts”, Revista de Mediación. Vol. 10 No. 2.
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websites on the insight approach
Insight Collaborations International (ICI)
Center for Applied Insight Conflict Resolution (CAICR)
Insight Theatre Productions
Under the Veil: Being Muslim and non-Muslim post 9/11, 2010 Produced by TÉA Productions Cadence Home, 2012 Produced by TÉA Productions
Uniform Justice, 2014 Produced by TÉA Productions
Rocco, Chelsea, Adriana, Sean, Claudia, Gianna, Alex, 2019 Produced by TÉA Productions