Conflict Management and Resolution: Mon Period 4 - Class # 2 - Jan 15

[dr-jwilsonmd.livejournal.com]

If Wilson was looking a wee sleepy as he slipped into the classroom well, it might have been due to the brief nap he caught in between the faculty meeting and class. Due to said meeting there was, unfortunately a lack of yummy baked goods for snacking.

Woe.

Setting his soft-sided briefcases up on the desk, Wilson turned and smiled at the class.

“Good morning everybody. I’d like to start out today’s class with saying how pleased I was with the creativity and cooperation you all showed in last week’s exercise. Some of you came up with ideas I hadn’t considered when I made up the exercise and I was delighted to see that sort of originality. Everyone and I do mean everyone, got top marks.”

Pulling the overhead projector films from his satchel, Wilson walked over to the projector and flipped it on.

“All right, let’s get started today. We’ve got a lot of material to cover.”



Lecture:

“Today in class I want to discuss the typical types of conflicts you will encounter. Now I say typical but I want you to understand that very little is ever going to be by the book when dealing with an actual conflict. People, peoples and beings are all too widely varied and unique for every situation to be exactly the same. So I want you to think of these more as guidelines, foundations upon which to grow your own ability to identified the core form of a conflict and work from there.”

Setting the first film on the overhead Wilson continued for the next half hour going over,

Interpersonal Conflict
Organizational/Business
Education: General
Intergroup Conflicts
Community / Environment / Public Policy Conflicts
International Conflict
Intractable Conflict
Justice Conflicts

Each conflict type was carefully detailed out over the series of slides.

Interpersonal Conflict: Family Conflict -Family conflicts can often be extremely difficult because the people can never get away from each other--they will always be family. The closeness can lead to especially intense conflicts. Student conflicts - Student conflicts are conflicts that take place in schools or universities and and involve students. They include conflicts between students, between students and faculty, between students and administrators, between students and dorm residents. Youth (Non-School) Conflicts (i.e. Gangs) - Youth conflicts are conflicts that involve children, occur outside of school, and are not gang related. Workplace - Workplace conflicts are conflicts take place in a work setting and involve co-workers, or employees and employers. Interpersonal Violence Prevention - Interpersonal violence prevention refers to any process that is used to prevent, mitigate, or resolve violence between private individuals.

Organizational/Business: The overhead slide detailed out various examples of conflicts for this group.

Education: General: Another handy dandy slide.

Intergroup Conflicts: Hey it saves you from his handwriting, which is a conflict all it’s own!

Community / Environment / Public Policy Conflicts: Yet more conflicts.

International Conflict: Who said you weren’t going to be taking a lot of notes?

Intractable Conflict: Almost there!

Justice Conflicts: Annnd last one!

Class Discussion:

“All right, I know this is a lot of material I’ve just thrown at you so we’re going to take one small section for discussion in class today. “

Sliding away from the desk, Wilson switched off the overhead projector and turned back up the lights.

“Speaking in the hypothetical only, I don’t want to hear about your roommate stealing your socks or how mean Professor so and so is, I want you to think about a possible student conflict scenario and then discuss with the class how you would propose to manage the conflict to the positive resolution of both parties. To keep this manageable for the class period lets work with conflicts that would be student to student conflict, or a student to faculty conflict.”

Sliding up onto the desk he smiled impishly at the class.

“All right, don’t be shy…and don’t make me call on you.”

Homework:

“I threw a lot of information at you today but it’s all very important information to this class as a whole. I want you all to review your notes, get them organized, think of any questions you might have of the information we went over and be prepared for a quick, small written quiz at the start of class next week.”


[ooc: Class shamelessly cribbed from The Conflict Resolution Information Resource. Please wait for The OCDs are up and class is in session!!]

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[dr-jwilsonmd.livejournal.com]

In a nice collapsable manner please

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[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana Lang

Class Discussion

[dr-jwilsonmd.livejournal.com]

“Speaking in the hypothetical only, I don’t want to hear about your roommate stealing your socks or how mean Professor so and so is, I want you to think about a possible student conflict scenario and then discuss with the class how you would propose to manage the conflict to the positive resolution of both parties. To keep this manageable for the class period lets work with conflicts that would be student to student conflict, or a student to faculty conflict.”

Keep it hypothetical and focus on how you would manage the conflict, not of just griping about the situation.

Re: Class Discussion

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Well," Lana said. "People might have a conflict over what to watch in the common room. There are a couple of ways to resolve it. They could agree on a different program that both enjoyed or take turns controlling the remote or one or the other could go to another common room."

Re: Class Discussion

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"Take two students who went to the library. Each needed to check out the same book for a school book report, though the students were in seperate classes. The book report was due in two weeks. Now, they could either compromise and one use the book for one week, and the other for the second week. Or, if they were friends, close or whatnot, they could agree to meet after classes or when the time was agreeable for both, and sit together and work together from the book - each completing their own book report and maybe gaining insight from each other."

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[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Wow, did Luke not want to play this game.

He thought about his options for several minutes before finally offering. "Two students both like the same girl. She chooses one over the other. The first can either keep holding on to his feelings and wait for her to decide that she'd made a terrible mistake, or he could move on to someone else."

Re: Class Discussion

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner thought over a number of things and settled on one particular scenario. "Say you've got two friends, right? And they're not friends with each other. Or they could be, or maybe they were once, but they'd rather deliberately do things to hurt each other than try to work things out."

He chewed his lip in thought. "Okay, let's make that more specific. They weren't friends in the first place. But either way that's obviously a conflict. So my question first is, when you're stuck in the middle like that, how do you know if or when it's time to step in? Because it's a conflict with you, too. You're friends with both of them, and they keep trying to use you as a way to get back at each other. What I would do is talk to each of them separately first, and try to get them to realize that they're hurting other people besides each other, and if that goes over well I'd try and get them to talk it out. But I just don't know if that might make things worse if it's timed wrong."

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[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Let's say there's a kid, who has a papa, is living alone in his house while he is away. This kid has the means and the ability to take care of themselves. But a nutty old biddy who runs the children's home insists on pestering the kid to come live in said home all the time, instead of paying attention to the poor children already in that home who don't have pappas, or the means, or maybe even the ability to take care of themselves..." Pippi said.

"Let's call her... Oh, I dunno. Miss Prissy Lissy."

Speaking hypothetically of course.

Re: Class Discussion

[repeterpetrelli.livejournal.com]

Peter tried to think of something. "A student could have a conflict with a teacher about his grade. He could try solving it by talking to the teacher during her office hours, or appealing to the administration for mediation if that didn't work."

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[proudsidekick.livejournal.com]

"You could have a situation where a student, or a group of students, wanted to do something really bad like be supervillains, and they were trying to pressure other students into joining them. I think that good be resolved if the students held their ground and made it clear that they didn't want any part of the badness. But that could just be wishful thinking."

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[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

"A student could want to do something the school doesn't allow," Tyler said. "He could do it anyhow and face the consequences, or petition the school to change the rule."

It was clear which path he would pick.

Re: Class Discussion

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

"There could be a conflict with an inflexible professor," stated Elizabeth. "It's possible that the authority figure in question would insist on his or hers supposedly superior knowledge being correct and refuse to acknowledge the sheer possibility that a student could actually known more than them in an instance. It's important for the student to remain calm and objective and not simply let the professor denounce them simply because they're the one in charge."

Talk Amongst Yourselves

[dr-jwilsonmd.livejournal.com]

For all your whisper-whispering and note passing needs

Re: Talk Amongst Yourselves

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana sat quietly in class, taking copious notes.

Re: Talk Amongst Yourselves

[demonbelthazor]

The Source preferred creating conflict, but, you know, know your enemy and all....

So Bel obediently pretended to listen and take notes.

Re: Talk Amongst Yourselves

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Annette studiously took notes, keeping silent and focused on what she was doing.

Re: Talk Amongst Yourselves

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

Tori listened carefully and took notes.

Re: Talk Amongst Yourselves

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi is focusing on listening to Wilson and taking notes.

She is easily distracted however.

Re: Talk Amongst Yourselves

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe hadn't said much during the discussion, but she was taking very detailed notes on everything being said.

Talk to the TAs

[dr-jwilsonmd.livejournal.com]

But please wait for them to ping in first.

Re: Talk to the TAs

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair's around if anyone wants to talk to him.

Re: Talk to the TAs

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi is here all bouncy and cheerful.

Talk to Wilson

[dr-jwilsonmd.livejournal.com]

Snag him after class if you need him!

OOC -

[dr-jwilsonmd.livejournal.com]

Phale's OCD made me do it.

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[a-phale.livejournal.com]

Hey! How come my OCD is to blame? :-p~~~~