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1 comments about Mediation and Facilitation Training Manual: Foundations and Skills for Constructive Conflict Transformation, Fourth Edition, Fourth Printing, August 2003.

1. "Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert."
   
   -Isaiah 43:18-19
   
   "... This manual is itself a parable of transformation---telling some of the change-story of MCS and of the broader mediation field. At the first MCS Summer Training Institute in 1985, we participants were each given a slim manila folder in which to collect the week's hand-outs. Copied on blue paper and pre-dating high-class wordprocessing and copying equipment, their somewhat ragged look is still precious to me---like the new teeth of a young child. Ron Kraybill's early distillation on paper of so many key concepts condirmed my own growth and invited me onward---both spiritually and intellectually. By the time I joined the staff in 1988, Dave Brubaker had organized 40 or so pages into loose-leaf binders for the now popular and oft-repeated training institutes. But Ron's bulging black "trainer's notebook," the mounting stack of Conciliation Quarterly newsletters, and John Paul Lederach's arrival were daily reminders of the burgeoning field and foreshadowed the rich editorial work that lay ahead. 1989 and 1992 each brought published training manuals, both editions a bit weightier in pages---and hopefully in diversity of voices and collective wisdom---than the last. In the 1995 third edition, editors Jim Stutzman and Carolyn Schrock-Shenk added much depth to issues of power, justice and diversity.
   
   Each edition also continued to radiate farther and farther beyond those first 20 institute participants reading their blue study sheets in the Mennonite Central Committee chapel---into universities, community centers, church basements, and groups of people gathered here and there to ponder peace under the welcome shade of a tree. Now this change process has taken yet another step with this 2000 edition for the on-going benefit and growth of us all: trainers and students alike.
   
   "Transformation." The term began to emerge in various writings in the field in the late 1980s and first appeared in the title of the MCS training manual in 1992. In the 2000 edition, it is as ubiquitous throughout the manual's varied authors and chapters as it is in our North American lingo at-large. While some efforts have been made to "capture" the term, to give it a prescriptive definition---as in "transformative mediation" ---like the concept itself, it cannot really be "fixed." For it---and we---and those whom we serve with these "foundations and skills for constructive conflict transformation" ---need always to be poised, ready to "do a new thing."
   
   Do you not perceive it?
   
   -Alice M. Price
   La Jara, Colorado, April 30, 2000
   [from the book of foreword by Alice M. Price]

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