Conflict, differences, and misunderstandings happen to everyone. However they are particularly prevalent in the formative years of a young person’s life. Through experiential learning, we utilize interactive activities in our youth offerings so participants can learn and apply new skills in their lives. Classes and camps are conducted in a group format, which allows youth to learn from one another’s diverse experiences. Each person who completes our class gains an understanding of how conflict can be used as an opportunity for growth and problem solving.
Your class will be held in person over 2-weekends from 1:00pm – 4:00pm on July 22*, July 23, July 29*, and July 30. In this accelerated social-emotional course for youth, participants will learn how to make healthy decisions, and identify emotions – especially anger – while learning to manage them in healthy, effective ways. *Parent/guardian required attendance on these dates.
Addressing Conflict and Anger Effectively for Youth offers a skills-based curriculum specifically tailored to address concerns and difficulties youth are experiencing around making healthy decisions for themselves as well as how to recognize their emotions, especially anger, and manage them in healthy, effective ways. Classes are conducted in a group format, which allows students to learn from one another’s diverse experiences. Each person who completes our class gains an understanding of how conflict can be used as an opportunity for growth and problem solving.
“`[I learned]` that anger is natural and the way you handle it has different effects.”
“[I learned] how to be patient and think before doing things.”
“I will take away everything and all of it is valuable because it can help me in everyday situations.”
The Conflict Center understands that throughout a child’s development, parents/guardians play a critical role in the development of social and emotional skills. In recognition of this, we have built a parent-involvement component into our youth classes. Parents or guardians participate in half of the class sessions, focusing on family communication and skill-building.
We strategically keep the classes between 5 and 10 participants. We find that this class size allows participants to comfortably share their story in a small group, while still being able to receive feedback and guidance from instructors.
In practice, positive youth development incorporates the development of skills, opportunities and authentic relationships into programs, practices and policies, so that young people reach their full potential. This practical lens depicts youth and young adults as resources to cultivate, as opposed to problems to fix, and is dependent upon the use of the following guiding principles: strengths-based approach, inclusive of all youth, engages youth as partners, collaboration and sustainability
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