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Videos
Videos available from the CRU Institute:
The Blue Eraser
Everyday Conflicts, Creative Solutions
Changes
Everybody's Talking
Names
Rumors, Conflicts, Resolutions
The Blue Eraser
Elementary school video/DVD accompanied by a leader's guide
A creative dramatization showing elementary students using the sit-down mediation model to help students in conflict resolve their dispute. The story focuses on one mediator's first experience and demonstrates numerous mediation techniques including:
- I Messages
- Restating
- Enforcing the Rules
- Expressing Feelings
- Focus on the Issues
- Exploring Solutions
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Everyday Conflicts, Creative Solutions
Elementary training video and leader's guide
A professionally acted dramatization showing how the Conflict Manager process works on the playground. The video is accompanied by a Leader's Guide which points out, through an annotated transcript, several mediation skills used in the video:
- Active listening
- Using "I" messages
- Dealing with feelings
- Enforce the rules
- Find underlying information
- Balance the power
- What will happen if?
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Changes
Middle and High School Student VHS/DVD & Leader's Guide
Kayla and Isiah are boyfriend-girlfriend. Their relationship is threatened by Isiah's decision to become a serious student and take honors classes. The dramatization includes mediation of the dispute and much more. The topic is intriguing and provocative.
Techniques demonstrated in this show:
- Structuring the process
- Exploring Feelings
- Using 'I' Messages
- What will happen if.....?
- Enforce the rules
- Teaching disputants 'I' Messages
- Teaching disputants restating
- Point out areas of agreement
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Everybody's Talking
Middle and high school student video/DVD accompanied by a leader's guide
Rumors and gossip create a serious conflict between two girls. Student mediators create a structure in which the girls can begin to communicate, understand one another, and reach an amicable agreement. Techniques demonstrated in this show include:
- Using "I" Messages
- Teaching Disputants Restating/I Messages
- What will happen...?
- Exploring Feelings
- Pointing Out Areas of Agreements
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Names
Video and leader's guide
A diversity training video and leader's guide showing how differences can create conflict and how students help other students understand those differences and resolve conflicts through mediation.
The leader's guide includes:
- Annotated script
- The mediation process
- Diversity materials
- Cultural differences: communication
- Cultural diversity role plays
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Rumors, Conflicts, Resolutions
Secondary training video and leader's guide
This award winning dramatization (Silver Medal, New York Festivals) shows Peer Mediators helping two high school students resolve a dispute. Rumors is accompanied by a leader's guide which points out several techniques demonstrated in the video. The discussion shows CRU trainers, student mediators and a high school coordinator talking about how the program works. Included in the video are the following techniques:
- Avoid "dirty laundry"
- Dig for underlying information
- Enforce the rules
- Teach disputants "I" messages
- Dealing with feelings
- Point out areas of agreement
- What will happen if?
- Teach disputants restating
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The 'Changes' video gives students from our predominantly African American district an opportunity to see students like themselves solve a conflict successfully. I have viewed numerous videos throughout the years for peer mediation training. Finally, one that depicts our students. As a trainer, I simply love the step-by-step training component along with the role play. That has made my job a hundred times easier. 