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Mediate with LH, LLC
Our Efforts To Start Building a Resolution Culture
A number of us have volunteered and are producing a video series on avoiding, preventing, and resolving conflict . As producer I’m planning a “special” on interests, issues, and needs that our children have in establishing a resolution culture in their school environments. What I’m intending to do is to take selected aspects of their school life to explore this concept. For example I’m looking at areas like violence amongst students, ostracism by factions within a school, and interactions which occur between the borders of school and the outside. The reason I’m so interested in the school environment is because that’s where we start building a resolution culture – through our youth. It’s not that I’ve given up in striving to work with adults. There are some good, adult leadership by example, scenarios, however, the road from conflict to resolution is a tough one and needs time. It will take innovative and creative effort which more commonly resides in youth.
Our objective will at first be to highlight the types of challenges which our students face in their school environments, what they themselves are doing about it, and perhaps a facilitation to generate some new thought.
Here in Hawaii we are extremely fortunate to have a community television outlet and some very dedicated and talented volunteers to make this happen. We hope the powers to be will continue to support this franchise in 2010 and beyond.
The message being conveyed in this blog entry is that we’re taking the concept of “resolution” culture and translating that into video to add some spark to a much needed area – student collaboration in areas like peer mediation, facilitation, and assisted negotiation and to encourage school boards to provide the financial and adult resources necessary to reinvigorate these programs.
