Finding Your Way Through Conflict: Strategies for Early Childhood Professionals
Social conflict is a natural, healthy and human aspect of relationships. Effective conflict resolution often requires support, perspective, and developing a skill set for engaging in difficult moments. In this session, you will explore components of and personal feelings about conflict, practice recognizing what is happening in a conflict, and develop strategies to engage in productive conflict resolution. Developing both tolerance and skills for engaging in conflict, you will expand your professional conflict resolution skill set in relationships with colleagues and families.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will be able to recognize the components of conflict as a natural and healthy aspect of human interaction.
- Participants will be able to develop a higher level of tolerance being in conflict in order to get out of conflict.
- Participants will be able to identify next steps that they can take to implement their professional conflict resolution skill set, both for themselves and the people they coach and manage.
