The Mediation Workshop
When students are involved in disputes, arguments, fights and other conflicts that go unresolved, everyone is distracted. Students can't concentrate on learning and teachers and administrators can't focus on teaching.
Fortunately, mediation is being used more and more as a way of helping students settle their differences. It has begun replacing the traditional methods of handling conflicts between students, such as physical punishment, suspension, expulsion and detention.
This Mediation Workshop teaches junior high and high school students and teachers the communication and conflict resolution skills they need to mediate conflicts at school.
What Mediators Will Learn
- How to listen with empathy to understand each student's point of view
- How to teach both students in the conflict to talk about their needs and problems without blaming the other
- How to lead the disputants through a conflict resolution process to find a solution that meets the needs of both
How Students Will Benefit
- Mediators will develop skills that they can use in all their relationships and throughout their lives
- The skills they will learn--self-disclosure, Active Listening and problem solving--are skills needed for all kinds of learning
- Mediators will contribute to society by making peaceful resolution of conflicts a way of life
- Students in conflict will understand themselves and other better
- They will learn that conflicts can be resolved through talking instead of violence
How Schools Will Benefit
- Reduced absenteeism
- Administrators and teachers can concentrate more on education and less on discipline
- Less stress for administrators and teachers
- More teaching-learning time; less disruptions
- Violence, vandalism and suspensions are reduced
Course Description
The Mediation Workshop is a 15-hour program which can be easily integrated into a life skills or similar program.
For more information, please contact us:
Tel: 800.628.1197
Em: schools@gordontraining.com
