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Welcome to our web site introducing workshops in team building and conflict solving

Contents

An invitation to contact us

Workshops: objectives, contents, methods

The facilitator: how to contact us

What is a cooperative game?

Bibliography

An invitation to contact us.  

For 12 years we have been giving workshops (about 700 days) to participants coming from different professionnal backgrounds , mainly teachers (nursery, primary and high schools), social workers, staff from youth organizations and qualified trainers.

We worked at the University of Peace (Belgium) for 6 years giving workshops about team building and conflict solving.  We also have experience in work with international organizations and multicultural groups.

In our workshops we always try to balance practical and theoretical parts, body in action and mind. Cooperative games are favourites because they develop trust, solidarity, respect, self-confidence combining pleasure and challenges to be met.

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Workshops: objectives, contents, methods.

You will find below information about our main workshops. This is just an overview : each training course is of course adapted to the participants' needs.

• Team building

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• Conflict management

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• Training children to negotiate

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Team-building workshop

An invitation to:

Any person involved in a team, building or carrying out a project (at local, national or international level)

specially

*teachers and school staff

*social workers

*health professionals

*youth organizations leaders

*community organizers

* staff of companies in which team work is a priority

Objectives:

Develop your own capacity to work in a group and to achieve that:

* train in self-esteem and positive look on others, which is essential to find your place in a group.

* improve your ability to communicate in a group

           express yourself in a personal way using your whole body  

           enhance listening skills (using all your senses)

Develop your own capacity to carry out a task in a group

Be able to awaken or stimulate in others attitudes leading to efficient work together      

Methods:

Ice breaking cooperative games Self-esteem activities Verbal and non-verbal listening practice Trust games      Challenging activities and cooperative games

E-mail to contact us: adelin.rousseau@swing.be

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Workshop in conflict management

( 3 to 5 days )

Objectives:

·        Identify qualities and helpful behaviour

·        Practise to detect and point at qualities and assets of the people we are in contact with.

·        Clarify what happens when we get in conflict.

·        Prepare to meet our opponent by clarifying our basic needs.

·        Train to communicate more clearly and positively.

·        Increase the number of possible ways to intervene in a conflict between two persons

·        Learn how to act as a mediator in a conflict.

Contents

·        Games and exercises to improve self-image and self-confidence

·        Exercises to clarify conflicts brought in by participants

·        Values and needs clarification practice.

·        Verbal and non-verbal communication practice (expression and listening skills)

·        Role-playing and training as a mediator.

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Training children to negotiate

In their families (and later at the nursery and primary school) children become aware of their own power, develop their basic attitudes towards others. Having happy or painful experiences, they will find their own ways to meet others and become part of a group.

The way a child will negotiate as an adult (and as an adolescent) will strongly depend on the way he negotiated before as a child in front of a grown-up clear in his needs and messages. Negotiating can be learnt a lot sooner  than generally thought:  children can learn basic skills for example how to make choices, exchange toys, consider consequences of their actions, use words to express feelings…

Exercises and games will help participants to create conditions for children (from three to twelve) to learn how to solve their problems and disputes and share their power with other children.

Public

Parents, grand-parents, nursery and primary school teachers, anyone in contact with children from 3 to 12.

Objectives

1.        Lead adults to share and think about their own ways to solve problems

2.        Increase the number of possible reactions in challenging situations

3.        Learn a method to teach problem solving to children according to their ages

4.        Learn negotiation skills: reach all-winners/no losers solutions relying on the basic needs of everyone

An example of a 3 or 4 day-workshop

.Day 1: Exercises and games to learn how to use a game -centred approach in adult-child relations. Différent ways to react facing a child who has got a problem.

Day 2: Are children familiar with all the basic concepts necessary to solve problems? Which ones? How can we check? How can we teach them?

Day 3 (et 4): A conflict-solving method and how to adapt it to different ages. Work based on situations brought by the participants.

To contact us:     adelin.rousseau@swing.be

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The facilitator.           How to contact us?

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What is a cooperative game?

Définition:

A cooperative game is a game without any winners or losers, with noone excluded, without any permanent teams of players.

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Bibliography.

1.    Cooperative games:  

A. Books in English:

FLUEGELMAN A. The New Games Book, Double Day/Dolphin, New-York, 1976

FLUEGELMAN A. More New Games, id. New-York, 1981

MASHEDER M. Let's cooperate    Peace pledge Union  London 1986  

MASHEDER M  Let's play together  Green Print  London 1989

ORLICK T. The Cooperative Sports and Games Book, Random House, New-York, 1978

ORLICK T. The Second Cooperative Sports and Games Book, Id. New-York, 1982

ROHNKE K. Silver Bullets, Project Adventure Inc. Kendall/Hunnt Pco, 1984  

B.   Books in French:

BLAIS R. et CHARTIER P. Jouer pour rire, Ed. Louise Courteau, Montreal 1989 

BRUEL C. Jouer pour changer, Le sourire qui mord, Paris 1984

CHAMBERS B (coll.), Découvrir la coopération, activités d'apprentissage coopératif pour les enfants de 3 à 8 ans, Editions de la Chenelière, Montreal 1997

COLET P et COLLET B, Des portes s'ouvrent. Université de Paix, Namur 1986 épuisé.

CORNELL J. Vivre la nature avec les enfants, Jouvence 1995

CREVIER R. et BERUBE D. Le plaisir de jouer. Inst.plein Air Quebec 1987 épuisé

FORTIN C. Je coopère, je m'amuse. Ed. de la Chenelière Montreal 1999

GAUDET D. (coll.) La coopération en classe, guide pratique appliqué à l'enseignement au quotidien. Editions de la Chenelière-Mc Graw, Montreal, 1998

LEFEVRE D. Jeux nouveaux. Le souffle d'or, Paris 1988

MARTENS E et VAN SULL V. Osez la Musique, Labor, Bruxelles 1992

MASHEDER M. Jeux coopératifs pour bâtir la Paix, Université de Paix, Namur, 1989

MASHEDER M. Jeux coopératifs pour bâtir la Paix tome 2, Univ.de Paix, Namur 1993

PAUL-CAVALLIER F. Jouons, la pédagogie des jeux de coopération, Jouvence, 1994

PROVOST P. et VILLENEUVE M.J. Jouons ensemble, Ed de l'Homme, Montreal 1980, épuisé

ROUSSEAU A. Les jeux coopératifs: élaboration et évaluation d'un programme de formation à la coopération par le jeu, mémoire de licence, Université de Mons 1990

VILLENEUVE M.J. Viens jouer, Ed de l'Homme, Montreal 1983

Collectif QUEST Europa Clefs pour l'adolescence. Jeux et activités de coopération pour la classe. Quest International 1994

2.    Other books in French related to our workshops:

ABRAMI P .. coll.) L'apprentissage coopératif, Editions de la Chenelière, Montreal 1996

ADLER R. et TOWNE N. Communication et interactions, Vigot Etudes Vivantes, Montr. 1991

BARTH M. et MARKUS U. Parents câlins, Jouvence 1990

BENET F. Relaxations guidées pour enfants Recto Verseau 1991

BERGE Y. Danse la Vie, Le Souffle d'Or 1994

BESSEL H. Le développement socio-affectif de l'enfant (Prodas) Actalis. Quebec 1975

BOISBOURDAIN M.C. Comment la violence vient aux enfants, Casterman, Tournai 1983

BRUNNER R. Ecoute le silence (intériorisation pour enfants) Amrita 1994

CAPACCHIONE L. Faites vivre votre enfant intérieur. Le Souffle d'Or 1994

CHALVIN M.J. Comment réussir avec ses élèves, ESF Paris 1986

CRARY E. Négocier, ça s'apprend tôt, Université de Paix, Namur 1998

D' ANSEMBOURG T.  Cessez d'être gentils, soyez vrais     Ed. de l'Homme   Montreal 2001.

DE LA GARANDERIE A. Une pédagogie de l'entraide, Vie Ouvrière Bruxelles 1994

DIAZ B. et LIATARD B. Contre violence et mal-être. La médiation par les élèves. Nathan P.1998

FILLOZAT I. Trouver son propre chemin, Presse Pocket 1992

FILLIOZAT I.  L'intelligence du cœur.   Marabout 1997

FILLIOZAT I.  Que se passe-t-il en moi?   Mieux vivre ses émotions au quotidien   JC Lattès,  2001.

FORTAT P. et LINTANF L. Education à la Paix, Vie Ouvrière, Brux.Lyon 1989

GHAZAL M. Mange ta soupe et tais-toi (résol. conflits) Seil 1992

GORDON T. Enseignants efficaces, Ed le Jour, Québec 1981

GORDON T. Parents efficaces Ed le Jour, Québec 1976

GORDON T. Comment apprendre l'autodiscipline aux enfants, Marabout 1992

HERIL A. et MEGRIER D. Entraînement théâtral pour les adolescents, Retz 1994

MACCIO C. Valeurs pour notre temps, Vie Ouvrière, Bruxelles 1991

MANENT G. L'enfant et la relaxation, Le Souffle d'Or, Paris 1990

MANENT G. La relaxation pour ensoleiller le quotidien, Le Souffle d'Or, Paris 1995

REID J. FORRESTAL P COOK J. Les petits groupes d'apprentissage dans la classe, coll Agora Beauchemin Chronique Sociale Lyon 1993

ROSENBERG M.  Les mots sont des fenêtres (ou des murs),    Jouvence    1999

SALOME J. Si je m'écoutais, je m'entendrais, Ed de l'Homme, Montreal 1990

SAMALIN N. C'est pas juste! Comment gérer les conflits entre frères et sœurs, Flamm.1997

STEINER C. Le conte chaud et doux des chaudoudoux, Intereditions Paris 1984  

TARTAR-GODET E. Prévenir et gérer la violence en milieu scolaire, Retz Paris 2006

THIRION J.F. Faire face à l'agressivité en milieu scolaire, Ed de l'Organisation, 1992

Collectif: Pour une éducation non-violente, enjeux pédagogiques et sociaux, Non-Violence Actualités Montargis.

Collectif: Jeux et violence, jeux agressifs, jeux coopératifs, NVA Montargis  

Collectif: Favoriser l'estime de soi à l'école  Chronique sociale Lyon 2006

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