Preventing conflict situations, resolving disputes in teams, developing skills and deepening the experience of social interactions are issues that are urgent for all organizations, without exception. This was the topic of a meeting held with the staff of the Vilshany Children Orphanage by Tetyana Hoydash, a doctor and psychologist of the Medical Aid Committee in Zakarpattya.

First, the trainer invited the participants to an interactive exercise that set the stage for friendly dialogue, group interaction, and creative thinking. Then the expert spoke about ways to prevent, resolve and overcome conflict escalation. To consolidate the knowledge, the team was divided into groups and asked to resolve a domestic conflict situation using one of the five main ways of conflict resolution: withdrawal (suspension), concession, competition, compromise, and cooperation. It turned out that the proposed methods are useful not only for harmonizing the atmosphere in the team, but also outside of it – at home, with children, parents, friends... Undoubtedly, such meetings are useful because they allow to work through situations and circumstances that people do not pay enough attention to in everyday life, consider them secondary, and when faced with a problem directly, cannot respond correctly and minimize the consequences.

This is already the third thematic training meeting on improving mental health, developing teamwork, and psychosocial support during the war. You can read about the previous ones here and here. All these activities are being carried out by the CAMZ team within the framework of the project "Improving the Protection of Children in Emergencies in Ukraine by Providing Safe Shelters, Food and Non-Food Items, and Psychosocial Support", which is being implemented with the support of "terre des hommes Deutschland e.V." and funding from the Federal Foreign Office of Germany.