Violence Prevention Workshops for Teens and Young Adults

Survey Responses from Workshop Participants

What is one thing you learned about trauma and stress?

• How to stay clam and protect yourself.

• I learned that there are different kinds of trauma/stress and that the worse it is the more it overshadows the better stress.

• it’s better to calm yourself and go to a place where you can relax before your cup overflows.

• You have to take things slow and it will take time.

• You cant let it build up because you’re going to explode.

What is one thing you learned about resolving conflict?

• Just take it slow.

• The 5 steps for resolving conflict was useful and gives good tips for helping resolve conflict like removing the audience.

• I learned that there are stages of conflict and ways I can tell if someone is agitated or not.

• Calming down and stopping.

• Use words before resorting to violence.

• Remove the audience from conflict.

• Use an item to calm you down.

• The way you address someone is important and space is important too.

• There is a process that can resolve conflict smoothly.

• To calm down and go low and slow into whatever is going on.

How will you use this training in your life at work, school, or home?

• I can use it by when i get mad at school, I can just at remember all she said.

• At work if there is conflict now i can handle it better.

• I can use this training to avoid conflict and resolve conflict.

• When there is a problem or conflict or fight I can use this to help me stay calm or help break things up.

• I know what to do if someone gets in my personal space.

• Solving conflict.

• Control my feelings emotions and helping others control theirs.

• I would use this training by applying it onto resolving daily conflicts.

• I would use this train in my life at work school or home by showing others how to calm down.