The Reflective, Facilitative, and Interpretive Practice of the Coordinated Management of Meaning Making Lives and Making Meaning

Preface: Evolution and Transformation: A Brief History of CMM and a Meditation on What Using it Does to Us, W. Barnett Pearce Chapter 1: CMM as Transforming Practice: An Introduction by Catherine Creede, Beth Fisher-Yoshida and Placida V. Gallegos Transition 1: CMM as Facilitation, Beth Fisher-Yoshida Chapter 2: Facilitating Episode Work, Linda Blong Chapter 3: Levels of Context in Professional Coach-Client Communication, Irene Stein Chapter 4: Taming the Lizard: Transforming Conversations Gone Bad at Work, Paige Marrs Chapter 5: CMM and Healthcare Qualitative Simulation Research: Developing the Team's Voice, Lydia Forsythe Transition 2: CMM as Interpretation, Catherine Creede Chapter 6: Achieving a Transcendent Episode: A CMM Analysis of a Theological Task Force in the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., Jeff Hutcheson Chapter 7: Expanding Meaning of My Volunteer Work in Uganda Using Circular Questioning as a Self-reflective Journaling Practice, Catherine Creede Chapter 8: From the Ground Up: How a Grassroots Group's Management of Meaning is Feeding People, Fostering Sustainable Agriculture, and Cultivating community, Karen Bentley Chapter 9: Interactional Logics: Moving CMM Forward by Looking Back, Darrin S. Murray Chapter 10: On Becoming a Global Human: CMM, International Adoption, and the Global Burden of Self, Jeff Leinaweaver Transitions 3: CMM as Reflection, Placida Gallegos Chapter 11: CMM: A Reflective Tool for Engaging Diversity and Adversity, Ilene Wasserman Chapter 12: Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) as Reflective Practice, Beth Fisher-Yoshida Chapter 13: CMM and the Case of the Missing Body, Jane Peterson Chapter 14: Bodymindfulness in Coordinating the Management of Meaning Across Cultures, Adair Nagata Chapter 15: Living Into Very Bad News: The Use of CMM as Spiritual Practice, Kim Pearce Chapter 16: Editors' Closing Thoughts, Catherine Creede, Beth Fisher-Yoshida and Placida V. Gallegos About the Contributors Index