A Voice for Youth Intervention!
DE-ESCALATING AND REDUCING CONFLICT WHEN WORKING WITH YOUTHYouth intervention work can be challenging and dealing with conflict can be frustrating. This training will explore strategies and help you build the skills you can use to cope with conflict. Learn how to view conflict as a teachable moment and move those you work for into a better place by knowing how to use conflict effectively. Conflict is inevitable, a lack of strategies is not. This fun and experiential workshop will provide information and skills on how to handle conflict and how to impart these skills to others. Through role playing, exercises and discussion, we will cover the following: disadvantages and advantages of conflict, different conflict resolution styles, values-based conflicts, de-escalation and forgiveness. We will also cover basic premises of mediation and how it can be used to prevent major disputes. By attending this training you will:
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Karmit Bulman is an attorney, qualified neutral under Rule 114, and has been the director of non-profit organizations for 26 years. She was a managing attorney for legal services and served as executive director for the Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women, Avenues for Homeless Youth and Temple Israel. Ms Bulman is currently the executive director of the Conflict Resolution Center (CRC) and is responsible for financial management, program development, public and community relations, fund raising and oversight of CRC operations. CRC is a community-based, non-profit organization formed in 1981 for the purpose of strengthening communities by teaching and providing mediation and conflict resolution services. 
Mariah Levison is the Program Director at the Center for Conflict Resolution in Minneapolis. Before coming to Minneapolis, she worked for the Center for Conflict Resolution in Chicago and The Safe Horizon Mediation Program in New York City. These are two of the country’s largest dispute resolution centers, The Ms. Levison has been teaching conflict resolution, social and emotional literacy skills for ten years in settings ranging from shelters to professional development conferences. She has a Master’s Degree in International Affairs from Washington University in St. Louis. Additionally, Ms. Levison has worked abroad on development projects in both Latin America and Africa.