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Navigating everyday conflict – what skills and knowledge do you need to feel confident?
Have you ever been lost? It can be a horrible experience, especially if you’re on your own. Walking around, trying to find your way and looking out for familiar landmarks to get your bearings again. Add in time pressure because it’s getting dark or you’re on your way to an interview and it can get…
“When you help someone it can make the world be a better place”
Celebrating success “We’ve known for many years the students benefit and respond better to being mediated and spoken to by their peers rather than adults at times of crisis or disagreement,” Clive Rockcliff, Headteacher, Seven Hills School. Since 2005, Seven Hills School, has trained students to be peer mediators. It’s a great achievement to maintain a…
Handling online conflict well
New technology and the human need to connect. During the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve had good reason to be glad of new technology. Love it or hate it, Zoom videoconferencing has brought a new verb into common use! We humans are social animals and it’s important for our mental and physical health that we can connect…
Curious about conflict – learning to handle conflict well
Are you curious about conflict? Have you ever had a niggling disagreement that grew to be a big row? Do you wonder what it is about conflict that means it can have such a strong effect? We think these are questions that are well worth thinking about! Opinion clashes, getting into disagreements and communication difficulties…
Curious about conflict? Start by making friends with a lizard, a mouse and a monkey.
In lesson 1 of our Curious about conflict six lesson pack, we introduce a lizard, a mouse and a monkey that everyone should befriend. This is information about our human brain structure, based in neuroscience but easily accessible for all. Understanding what’s happening in our mind and body is a key element to be able…
Action Research Programme for Primary Schools
During this academic year CRESST are offering places for 12 primary schools to join our Young Peacemaker’s Programme (YPP) Action Research Programme. This low cost, accessible programme will support school staff to (re-)establish conflict resolution education in their schools. Joining the programme will enable schools to ensure that peer mediation and conflict resolution education can…
Anti-Bullying Week
Anti-Bullying Week 2020 United Against Bullying 16th – 20th November 2020 This year’s Anti-Bullying Week calls on us all to Unite Against Bullying. Our core work at CRESST supports young people to develop skills for handling conflict well. We all have to deal with everyday conflict, but it’s important to recognise how different this is…
Handling Conflict Well
Handling conflict well CRESST is launching a new series of blog posts: Handling conflict well. Our core business is enabling young people to access conflict resolution skills training, in schools and community settings. We believe that young people can be empowered with skills to handle conflict well – and our experience backs this up. We…
How we plan for the return to the classrooms, playgrounds and corridors of schools.
Curated by a restorative collective of researchers, practitioners and school leaders in the light of COVID-19, this will also be useful as schools face further disruption. A resource of information, articles and games can be found here
COVID-19 update from CRESST
As from Monday 6th April 2020 all CRESST staff are on the government furlough scheme. This has been a difficult decision but in light of the current situation we feel that this is the best way to preserve our funds as far as we can to enable CRESST the best chance of continuing conflict resolution education…