Carri Hulet ran an excellent workshop on conflict resolution. Her basic premise was that when we are in conflict with someone, be it our parents, peers, teachers, or someone else, we are in conflict because we each want something and that something is not the same thing. So the way to start resolving it is to ask more about why the person wants what they want, and only then can we start to find solutions and common ground.
We did role-playing involving a couple of different example conflicts: A) wanting to stay up later and B) wanting a pet.
