After several days of interviewing the parties involved, Daniel contacted Karen at the mayor$’$s office and told her, $“$I think we might be able to work with this situation, but I get a sense that emotions are running very high on both sides, and that it will be really hard for people to sit down together productively until I$’$ve had a chance to work with both sides one$-$on$-$one to prepare them. I think our ultimate aim is to get everyone affected by this situation together and find a solution that works for all of them. There is a lot of intensity around this conflict, and I want to change the troubled relationships between specific individuals in the neighborhood, so we might need to work with those people separately before real group work can begin."

Karen asked, $“$Will all this prep work help you to get concessions from each side?$”$

$“$What I$’$m really trying to do here is help people look at the situation as a problem to be solved rather than attack each other or see each other as 'bad' people,$”$ said Daniel.

Daniel may choose to borrow aspects from several resolution methods to create a process that works for this specific conflict. Which of Daniel's statements involves an aspect of transformative mediation?