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Cooperative learning encourage participants to speak, to listen and to interact with each other. However, communication can be disturbed from different reasons. But on the other hand, there are tools to increase comprehensibility, to negotiate interests and to deal with conflicts in a constructive way.
Facilitating Conflict Management
In this section you will not only get to know ideas how to work with conflicts, how to solve them or how to reflect on them. You will even get ideas how to start them...
A method to reflect on the question, which we see as a conflict.
Strengths and weaknesses of different behaviors exhibited during conflicts.
Background information and guidelines on anger and its problematic aspects and indicative functions.
Small method with often big impact
Some guiding questions for solving disbalances or useless tensions in a team
A small and useful piece out of the big system of NVC
A method for conflict resolution where win-win solutions seem to be feasible.
Visualization of group conflicts for analyzing relations.
A simulation game on conflicts and power.
A brief description of this famous and internationally used method.
To learn from conflicts you experienced in your teamwork.
Through bringing the participants face to face with various controversial issues this method fosters deep and engaging discussions
This analysis is based on the premise that conflicts have three major components: the context or situation, the behaviour of those involved and their attitudes.
The method is based on the analogy of an onion and its layers in a conflict: our public positions, our interests and our needs.
So far there are five ways for solving conflicts. You can reflect on your own pattern when it comes to conflict behavior.
The principle of timeline is very simple: it is a graphic showing events plotted against time.
Communication Skills
Here you find practical methods to use for training communication skills in your events
One of the basic concepts when it comes to communication in the german speaking area and maybe even outside of it. It is also interesting to work about it with participants.
This method is a brief introduction about intercultural differences and cultural shock.
The method addresses the communicative skills and helps to reflect opposite points of view in a discussion. Therefore two groups discuss the opposite opinions regarding a topic. This may be a general relevant topic or a current hot topic in your society.
Participants try out powerful listening in simluations. They experience the reciprocal action between sender and addressee and reflect the impact of powerful listening during a moderated discussion.
A person describes a problem he or she wants to solve, and his or her colleagues inspire him or her with their associations and advice. A very interactive and dynamic activity.
Constructive questions are a tool for guiding a learner or a group toward self-explored solutions and options in a coaching style. In this section we introduce types of questions focusing on solution-finding by activating the ressources/capacities of learners and focusing on their ability to develop and assess opportunities.
Feedback is a method that was developed to improve the quality of interpersonal communication, in terms of relevance (giving relevant information) as well of moral quality (showing interpersonal respect). It is a skill that has to be improved upon and includes often very useful information. In order to gain from this information people need to develop the capacities to give and receive feedback.
Discussions make different perspectives on a topic visible. They are a useful tool for learning to defend the personal points of view as well as to react on different opinions. As well they help to shape the skills for critical evaluation and for interpersonal communication.
A summary helps participants in a discussion, a training or a meeting to follow the thread. Especially in discussions a moderator needs to calm down the passions, or to help the audience and involved disputants to find the common main question again.
Language & Understanding
Participants become motivated for getting to know with the langage of the other participants and for trying it out. Especially in the youth trainings language animation became a methodological standard during the last years.
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