Framing has seven elements or steps that you go through, and you should use the metaphor of assessing a patient when you think of framing a conflict. Define the People. You can let the parties discuss styles in their own terms or you can teach them more about negotiation styles when framing. Balancing the relative importance of issues is the work of negotiation. The pooling and dividing of possible benefits often creates settlements.
Negotiation involves creating, evaluating and exchanging stakes.
Sometimes it is hard to deal with reality. Break reality into smaller parts to make it easier to digest. The resolution is not instant, but the solutions reached by a framing exercise last longer. At each step consider brainstorming, analysis and other tools to broaden your assessment of yourself, the other side and the overall situation. Complexity studies reflect that the initial evaluations and the initial proposed solutions are often wrong.