Conflict

Drama, Stress, High School, immaturity, struggle. These are words that initially come to my mind when I think of the word "conflict." Conflict... where to start? The first thing they taught us here about conflict is that there is no set formula in solving it... Good luck!!! So when conflict arises, how do we deal with it?

One activity that we did was that one person stood in front of the room and said "I am conflict, now go and position yourself in a way that represents how you deal with me!" The first thing I did was stand right in front of "conflict" and crossed my arms. I wanted this to represent that my way of dealing with conflict is to deal with it right away, but feel the need to protect myself. Once everyone in the group was settled, the guy who was "conflict" said "now look around and see where everyone else is at. there were some people who were in the cornor of the room, some were closer to conflict, but put some obsticles in between, and others were closer to it, but still kept their distance. I paid really close attention to where my teammates were standing compared to me, and realized that each one of us was in a very different place. Now this was interesting to me, seeing as I was the one who was really close to "conflict" but my teammates range from a medium distance to the whole way to the back of the room. I think that at first, it might be a little difficult for all of us to deal with these differences, but by the end of the year we will all rub off on each other a little and we will all learn new techniques in solving conflict. I might mellow down a bit, and the everyone else might get a little more aggressive... or not. Either way, it'll work out.