Students will be able to identify escalatation stages, and identify and apply intervention strategies given an escalation stage.
- Conflict Transformation & Escalation (30min)
- 2 mins: intro & disclaimer: this is not W3C policy
- 5 mins: What is conflict transformation
- Learning Objective: conflict is to be expected and can be productive
- Anticipatory set: planted audience skit demonstrating an escalating conflict(?)
- definition (direct instruction)
- 5 mins: What is escalation?
- Learning Objective: conflict starts somewhere; story telling in conflict
- definition (direct instruction)
- large group exercise - break down escalation of conflict demonstrated in the anticipatory set
- 15 mins: Glasl’s 9 stages of escalation
- Learning Objective: identify escalation points/signals
- small group exercise - where do things you run into as chairs fall into the stages
- Role of Leadership (5min)
- 2 mins: Leader’s role in conflict
- Learning Objective: self awareness
- self analysis; structural, social assessment
- 3 mins: Conflict Perspective Analysis
- Learning Objective: preparedness
- Resources - what do you need?
- Capability - do you have the skills?
- 2 mins: Leader’s role in conflict
- Interventions (25min)
- Intervention Strategies (direct instruction & small group exercises)
- Learning Objective: Learn & practice techniques for escalation stages 1-6
- Level 1 (Win Win)
- Reinforce commonality / reject othering
- “seek to understand”: Value other/reduce fear/discuss anxieties
- Reward/assign collaboration
- Level 2 (Win Lose)
- framing importance of relationship & importance of problem
- focus on outcomes & process
- protect rules of engagement
- Resources & wrap up
- 3rd Level tools: CEPC/W3C process; W3C legal
- escalation & intervention handout (pg. 7)
- Intervention Strategies (direct instruction & small group exercises)
sources:
- https://www.mediate.com/articles/jordan.cfm
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBjOwPBxYgA
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Glasl%27s_model_of_conflict_escalation#Strategies_for_de-escalation_and_conflict_solution
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-escalation#/media/File:Graham's_Hierarchy_of_Disagreement-en.svg