speedx5xracer
10-29-2005, 10:43 PM
Situation 2 or more campers fighting
Effectiveness from experience *****
Say that you are with your campers and two of them start fighting. Once you were able to stop them from fighting now you are stuck with the dilemma which camper to believe since you did not witness the start of the fight. Get all the campers that were present aside from the two involved parties send them with another councilor for now. You sit the campers down and you join them on the same level. Don’t be afraid to lay down the ground rules before starting. Rules should cover topics such as no raising your voices, no directly addressing each other during the process, speaking during your turn only and the ruling is final . You ask each of the witnesses to explain their account in turn. When you have established enough of an idea to start hearing the accounts from the involved invite them back to sit among the group. And again you ask the entire group in turn to go over their story. Just watch out for some campers changing their stories at this point to either support their friend or attack their rival. By the end of a few rounds both before and after you reintegrate the involved parties you should have a deep enough understanding to start asking questions. Like in technique 2 rather than give the group the answer all you want to do is ask them questions to lead them towards a resolution that you are content with. Ask involved questions and do not try to point blame at any party but more or less questions like Why do you think this happened, or How could this be resolved with out fighting? This will take time to do but it is effective.
Effectiveness from experience *****
Say that you are with your campers and two of them start fighting. Once you were able to stop them from fighting now you are stuck with the dilemma which camper to believe since you did not witness the start of the fight. Get all the campers that were present aside from the two involved parties send them with another councilor for now. You sit the campers down and you join them on the same level. Don’t be afraid to lay down the ground rules before starting. Rules should cover topics such as no raising your voices, no directly addressing each other during the process, speaking during your turn only and the ruling is final . You ask each of the witnesses to explain their account in turn. When you have established enough of an idea to start hearing the accounts from the involved invite them back to sit among the group. And again you ask the entire group in turn to go over their story. Just watch out for some campers changing their stories at this point to either support their friend or attack their rival. By the end of a few rounds both before and after you reintegrate the involved parties you should have a deep enough understanding to start asking questions. Like in technique 2 rather than give the group the answer all you want to do is ask them questions to lead them towards a resolution that you are content with. Ask involved questions and do not try to point blame at any party but more or less questions like Why do you think this happened, or How could this be resolved with out fighting? This will take time to do but it is effective.