Who has never heard “In a place
in La Mancha, whose name I don't want to remember, not long ago lived a hidalgo
of those with a lance in a shipyard, an old shield, a skinny nag and a running
greyhound”.
Don Quixote de la Mancha is the
work that becomes one of the most published books in the world, translated into
almost all the languages of the world, behind the Bible. Much of the work was
written from the prison of Seville, where Miguel de Cervantes had been serving
a sentence since 1597 for possible errors in his work as a tax collector.
And doing the same analysis, a
mediator from Seville, after the confinements of the pandemic, dares to share
his thoughts, because if it is madness, don't tell me, that mediators are not
branded as "bohemians", "deluded". ”, when society demands
punitive systems, we will always think that there is an opportunity for
dialogue.
Will we have something of
Quixote? Or perhaps Sancho, to justify the lack of sanity. I don't know very
well, but I would like to say that the heart and reason go hand in hand to
inspire us on this path.
Let's analyze each part of the
book and draw the conclusion.
Part I
First part of the ingenious nobleman Don Quixote de la
Mancha
•First chapter. Which deals with
the condition and exercise of the famous hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha
•Chapter II. Which deals with the
first exit that the ingenious Don Quixote made from his land
• Chapter III. In which the
graceful manner in which Don Quixote armed himself as a knight is recounted
• Chapter IV. Of what happened to
our gentleman when he left the sale
• Chapter V. Where the narrative
of our knight's misfortune continues
• Chapter VI. Of the graceful and
great scrutiny that the priest and the barber made in the bookstore of our
ingenious hidalgo
• Chapter VII. From the second
departure of our good knight Don Quixote de la Mancha
• Chapter VIII. Of the good
success that the brave Don Quixote had in the frightening and never imagined
adventure of the windmills, with other events worthy of happy remembrance
- Chapter I
In this first chapter the
protagonist of the literary novel is presented, "a nobleman from La
Mancha, dry of meat, lean of face and fond of reading books of chivalry, he
spent day and night reading, such was the obsession he had for this genre, who
one day decided to become a knight errant like the heroes of his books”. Books
and books of chivalry filled his room
“To carry out this strange
adventure and become a good knight, he would need his own weapons, a horse, a
name, and a lady to fall in love with. He took the weapons of his
great-grandparents, as a horse he chose his hungry nag, which he baptized
Rocinante and after much thought, he decided to call himself Don Quixote de la
Mancha, in honor of Amadís de Gaula . He only needed a lady to start his
adventures as a knight, he chose Aldonza Lorenzo, whom he called Dulcinea del
Toboso”.
M.- After
reading so much, dear mediator friends, we need a personal brand, to use our
intuition, an "old armor" made up of our experience in other
professions, a vehicle to navigate conflict management, in the form of
techniques and skills and a beautiful Lady "the mediation"
- Chapter II
Once prepared for his departure,
Don Quixote de la Mancha sets out aimlessly from a false door in the corral
where Rocinante was, allowing himself to be led wherever the animal leads him.
“Along the way, he fantasizes about being remembered in numerous chivalric
books and achieving great deeds, but he realizes that he has not yet been named
a knight errant and according to the rules of chivalry, he must not yet face
any other knight. .
Night falls, and the hidalgo
arrives at an inn that he believes is a castle. At the entrance he meets two
girls, who begin to laugh at his peculiar way of speaking. Finally, the
innkeeper appears who offers him food and lodging.
M.- Once
again, fantasizing as our Errant Knight, we chose uncertain paths as mediators.
Many times we leave behind the comfort of our law firm or psychologist's
office, to walk aimlessly through the "ashes of conflict." But, we
realize that without accreditation, without clear training, our work becomes
sterile.
It is not
easy to be, abandoning the opinion, when so many "quixotes" tell you,
"I was always a mediator."
– Chapter III
“After dinner, Don Quixote calls
the innkeeper and begs him to make him a knight. The innkeeper, sensing his
sanity, plays along and promises to grant his wish. In addition, he tells her
that he also served as a knight in his younger days, and tells her some of his
greatest achievements and places in Spain where he had been.
In order for a knighthood to be
valid, the knight's arms had to be put on display in a chapel, but since that
was a sale and there was no chapel, Don Quixote decided to put his arms on
display in the courtyard. While guarding his weapons to avoid thefts, the
almost knight, has some unfortunate encounter with some guests of the inn, the
Castilian, seeing this, proposes to name Don Quixote a knight that same night with
the intention that he leave as soon as possible. before and thus avoid greater
evils. And that is how Don Quixote de la Mancha, he is knighted in an impromptu
ceremony and leaves the inn in search of adventure”.
M.- It is
not difficult for me to make comparisons and those who have been following me
for a long time know it well. There are many inns, of all kinds. Resting places
when you feel alone in this profession. They laugh at you and me, but I assure
you that "our madness" is due to transit through your sanity. I just
need an "innkeeper" someone who proves that I am already trained,
that I can "use my weapons" that are nothing more than the power of
the word and recognition.
I will
watch over my “weapons”, but if you appoint me as a mediator, I promise to
fight against injustice and the unease of those who need me. I don't care how
many hours of training I need, what matters to me is feeling like a mediator.
CHAPTER IV
In this chapter, Don Quixote
leaves the inn and returns to town to collect money and find a squire.
On the way he hears some voices
and goes towards them.
Once there, he sees how a man is
whipping a child, at which point Don Quixote orders the man to stop unless he
wants to confront him, then the man stops. Then Don Quixote asks the man why he
was beating the poor boy, the man replies that the boy had lost a sheep and the
boy alleges that he has not paid him for 9 months. Don Quixote makes the lord
swear that he would pay the child and that he would set him free. Later Don
Quixote leaves and continues on his way. When Don Quixote leaves, the man whips
the boy again and he tells him that he is going to look for Don Quixote.
Don Quixote continues on his way
and meets two merchants to whom he tells of the beauty of his beloved
sweetheart. These merchants, to satisfy themselves, agree with her, saying yes,
but she will be one-eyed and one-eyed. Angry Don Quixote attacks them but with
the bad luck that his horse stumbles and cannot get up with the enormous weight
of the weapons. The merchants attack him and break his spear. Later both
merchants leave and leave Don Quixote.
M.- What
do you think, dear reader? We can say that in the face of this second conflict
that he finds himself on his way (remember that the first is the mockery of his
fate at the inn), he seeks justice from the imposition... What would you have
done? Would you help compensate the minor, abandoning violence, and in turn
reduce the value of the lost sheep?
And of
our “beloved” mediation, how many have laughed at it, saying “it is useless”,
that it is one-eyed and maimed, because the parties do not want to give their
arm to twist, only litigation. But we defend her because "her beauty of
her" and our satisfaction is incalculable.
CHAPTER V
Faced with the situation
experienced, Don Quixote began to remember one of the books he had read and
began to recite it out loud. Luckily for Don Quixote, he passed by and
recognized him as Quijana and helped him up, carrying Don Quixote's weapons on
his horse Rocinante. The man constantly asked Don Quixote how he was doing, but
Don Quixote constantly answered him with verses from the many books he had
read. Along the way Don Quixote was constantly ranting and quoting books that
he had read.
At an hour when no one could see
the man enter Don Quixote's house with Don Quixote himself badly wounded, they
both entered the town. There were his wife, his niece, the priest, and the
barber.
When Don Quixote had been healed,
he explained that 10 giants had wounded him. When Don Quixote went to bed the
man explained everything that Don Quixote had been saying during the trip.
M.- He
raved and raved, and why not, the “Little Prince” already said it: “once upon a
time there was a little prince who inhabited a planet just bigger than him and
who needed a friend”. Don Quixote, dear mediator, alone and abandoned needs
others, we will create a network to make us stronger in the face of adversity
and there we will find the priest, the advisor, the therapist, the counselor,
who will observe us, and why not, they will "heal" our wounds
CHAPTER VI
The priest and the barber asked
Don Quixote's mistress for the keys to Don Quixote's library in order to burn
all of Don Quixote's books.
So the priest and the barber
decided to burn all the books of Don Quixote and especially those of chivalry,
and then they took all the books of Don Quixote and especially the books of
chivalry, to carry out their plan they decided to burn them in the corral to
that no one could be offended or upset. The priest and the barber decided to
burn almost all the books except for one such as the Amadís de Gaula.
When they had burned all the big
books, they set out to burn all the small books that dealt with shepherds and
love affairs. They burned all the books except for one or two which they kept
for later reading.
M.- And
there was someone who was in charge of filling me with details, that while they
courageously burned endless mediation books, with different theories, different
models, “adventures” of our illusion; I just thought about how to get out of
those “ashes”, because I became a lawyer, “to advocate, to help others” and
that, as much as they try to be absent, they will never be able to make it
disappear.
Yes, in
the face of skeptics, I decided to write my own books on "chivalry",
"stories..." "El Cofre...", because even if they misunderstand
me, many understand me.
CHAPTER VII
Don Quixote woke up crying out,
as he was raving and it was believed that he was fighting many enemies.
Immediately afterwards he began to talk about books of chivalry, the priest and
Don Quixote's housekeeper fed him and put him back to bed so that he could
relax and rest.
The priest, the barber and Don
Quixote's mistress decided to put a wall in Don Quixote's library so that he
could not access the library and thus he would not realize that all his books
had disappeared. In the event that Don Quixote remembered his library and asked
about his books, his friends would tell him that he had been a magician who
made her disappear while Don Quixote slept. And so it was, when Don Quixote
woke up and asked about his room full of chivalric books, his friends told him
that it had been a magician who had made her disappear.
Don Quixote spent 15 quiet days
since he had set out to find a squire and get money.
To obtain this money it was
necessary for him to pawn certain of his belongings. During this time he met a
poor man named Sancho Panza to whom he offered several islands if he would go
on an adventure with him.
Having made this peculiar deal,
both adventurers left at nightfall. During the trip Don Quixote and Sancho were
talking about the island that Don Quixote had promised Sancho.
M.-
Periods of lucidity, that is what evokes us. Only with certain periods of
lucidity, we can move towards the mirage created for the occasion. They can put
up walls for us, as high as the ego of many professionals who feel they are
owners and creditors of the solutions to problems, but I assure you that we
will knock them down, because even if we already look for the
"illustration" of our manuals, our practice tells us that we are on
the right path and there… let's find our “sancho”.
Well
understood as a travel companion or our other self to put sanity before so much
without reason that we hear in the mediation sessions.
Looking
for friends, the madness of seeing beyond and the sanity of approaching
positions.
– Chapter VIII
In this chapter, Don Quixote
encounters 40 windmills that he mistakes for giants. Sancho warns him of the
reality, but Don Quixote ignores them and charges strongly against the
windmills, with such bad luck that he is wounded and his spear breaks into a
thousand pieces. Don Quixote believes that he has been a charmer who has turned
the giants into mills.
That night they sleep under some
trees, and Don Quixote tears off a branch to replace his lance following the
steps he had read in a chivalric book.
The next day they set off towards
Puerto Lápice, along the way, they see two friars and behind them a car with a
lady inside. Don Quixote, believing that they were enchanters who have a forced
princess, demands that they release her, the friars, somewhat stunned by such
accusations, insist that they are simply friars and that they have not
kidnapped anyone, they fail to convince don Quixote, who he lunges at one of
them, knocking him unconscious on the ground while the other runs away.
Meanwhile, Don Quixote asks the
lady as the only thanks for her services to go to Toboso, and tell his deeds of
bravery to his beloved Dulcinea, a Biscayan squire who was with the lady,
listens to this and threatens Don Quixote, thus beginning a sword fight.
M.- You
will find windmills and against them you have to fight. Giants? No… Positions,
impositions that will make any attempt to find a solution unsuccessful and that
we will have to close files again and again, “kidnapped” by a so-called
“traditional justice”, which we must release, to achieve quality justice.
For this
reason, despite our illusion “breaking our spear”, a new one will arise, a
reason for learning from the experience and that will make it easier for us to
find ourselves on the road with “new windmills”, new positions, but this time
we will turn into needs.
Fights, confrontations,
"swords", we already know that they exist, but also that the judges
do not have justice kidnapped, on the contrary, they have it protected, they
only need us to collaborate in posting it.
To be continued…