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Understanding conflict

Courses available currently:

• Working with Challenging Behaviour examines how the challenging behaviour of the young people you work with impacts on you
• Playing with Fire: a comprehensive 10-day course for practitioners working directly with young people who wish to develop professional and personal skills in dealing with conflict situations

Working with Challenging Behaviour 

This is a one-day introductory course for practitioners working directly with young people. It is an experiential and highly participatory course providing you with the opportunity to develop your skills in dealing with conflict situations you may encounter in your work with young people.

aims

• to identify and develop key skills in working with challenging behaviour

course includes

• Defining what challenging behaviour means for you
• Examining your triggers in conflict situations
• Exploring how you get trapped into reacting in ways you don’t like
• Examining anger and the feelings underlying it
• Identifying support needs in working with challenging behaviour

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Dates: 12th December 2008 in London

             26th January 2009 in Leeds

             18th May 2009 in London

             14th September 2008 in London

Price:   £100.00 per participant

To apply for  a place on this course please download and complete the booking form.

Playing with Fire

This comprehensive a ten-day course, run over three modules.  It is suitable for practitioners working directly with young people who wish to develop professional and personal skills and resources to deal with conflict situations. It is an experiential and highly participatory course.

aims

• To develop your ability to work with conflict creatively and constructively, particularly as it applies to working with young people.

course includes

• Increasing your awareness of your own relationship to conflict and your habitual responses in conflict situations.
• Increasing your understanding of the interpersonal dynamics of conflict (particularly in relation to anger, enemy thinking, persistent thought patterns, and issues of power and powerlessness).
• Sharing ideas, exercises and approaches you can use in your one-to-one and group work with young people and adults.
• An introduction to mediation skills as a tool for working with conflict.
• Rehearsing strategies for working more effectively with challenges.
• Identifying your support needs in working with conflict.

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Participants are expected to attend all ten days of this course.

Dates:  24th - 27th September, 23rd - 25th October & 20th - 22nd November 2009

Price:    £800.00 per participant

To apply for  a place on this course please download and complete the booking form.

If you have any questions, please call us during office hours on +44 (0) 20 7561 3700 or email leap.academy@leapconfrontingconflict.org.uk