Everybody Wins - an exploration of conflict resolution

The final solution to conflict is to kill your opponent. This is extreme but very common. In a milder form conflict can lead to lack of communication and much stress and fear. This is all too common but surely something can be done?
	Topic	Handout title Click on title to go to the page
1	Intro - there must be something that can be done - discuss!	500 years of genocide
Three ways of reacting to conflict can be identified. It is at least theoretically possible to move away from the two 'bad' ones (fighting and avoidance) and work towards the 'good' one (resolution) so that everybody wins
2	(FAR) Fight, Avoid, Resolve	Reacting to conflict
3	Win-win is possible	Strategies of conflict resolution
So now we know the theory - how can we put it into practice?
4	How to win-win	Going to meetings - a creative involvement
		Debate v dialogue and the hidden curriculum
5	How to avoid lose-lose	Confronting avoidance
		Dealing with resistance to change
6	How to avoid win-lose	Guidelines for negotiation
		A toolbox of heuristics
But we are all human and subject to human foibles and weaknesses. By paying attention to what and how we think it is possible to act as a calm centre in the storms of life. Two main things - recognise and deal with stress in yourself and others, and, be a bit astute in terms of power relations
7	How to keep cool	How teachers deal with stress
		Stress management
		Caplan's 7 characteristics of coping behaviour
8	How to understand power	Schools seen as mini-nations
		Sources of power in organisations
At the school level we will be dealing mainly with conflict in small groups. We have dealt with this topic before - forming, storming and norming etc. This is just a reminder. (For details click HERE)
9	How to handle conflict in groups	Stages in group problem solving
10	Just for fun	Two Battleships
		How to quarrel

Everybody Wins - an exploration of conflict resolution

Course outline

The final solution to conflict is to kill your opponent. This is extreme but very common. In a milder form conflict can lead to lack of communication and much stress and fear. This is all too common but surely something can be done?

Topic

Handout title

Three ways of reacting to conflict can be identified. It is at least theoretically possible to move away from the two 'bad' ones (fighting and avoidance) and work towards the 'good' one (resolution) so that everybody wins

So now we know the theory - how can we put it into practice?

But we are all human and subject to human foibles and weaknesses. By paying attention to what and how we think it is possible to act as a calm centre in the storms of life. Two main things - recognise and deal with stress in yourself and others, and, be a bit astute in terms of power relations

At the school level we will be dealing mainly with conflict in small groups. We have dealt with this topic before - forming, storming and norming etc. This is just a reminder. (For details click HERE)

Everybody Wins
- an exploration of conflict resolution