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Leap Conflict resolution course for youth. Held November 2001 for Youth workers and mediators from across the North west of England.

What is Leap? Leap Confronting Conflict (founded 1987) was developed as an initiative of the Leaveners,The Quaker Community Arts Charity. Leap aims to ensure that the experiences of the living spiritual processes of conflict resolution and mediation will lie at the heart of all education. Principal work is with young people and those who work with them professionally and voluntarily, developing skills such as affirmation, cooperation, team-building and creative problem-solving and mediation through reflective interactive group-work. Action-research in Britain and America during 1989-92 led to the publication of a training manual Playing with Fire (National Youth Work Press) on which courses for professional workers and training projects for unemployed young adults are based. These projects include: The Quarrel Shop, a peer-mediation service; Leap Islington,training and placements in the Islington Youth Service; a Leadership Training Scheme in the Feltham Young Offenders Institution; Alternatives to Violence programme for London prisons; and the Leap Schools Mediation Project. All are developing national publications. The co-ordinator is Helen Carmichael, M.Sc. (Social Work), C.Q.S.W., B.A. Hons (Psychology). Lead Trainers are Jo Broadway, Nic Fine and Fiona Macbeth

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