Conflict Resolution 
For Kids
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Empowering Kids to Thoughtfully Communicate and Manage Conflict

Every child makes choices and faces conflict. We help children approach both with confidence and consideration—building a community of kids, families, and educators who are empowered to learn together and help one another.

Why This Matters

Growing up is filled with moments that ask children to communicate, collaborate, and work through challenges with others.

Our programming goes beyond behavior management. We teach children the underlying communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills that help them work through disagreements, express themselves clearly, and make thoughtful choices—skills they will use for the rest of their lives.

Conflict Resolution for Kids is a nonprofit organization dedicated to translating the best of what we teach adults in mediation and negotiation into fun, practical, developmentally appropriate tools that children, families, and educators can use in real life.

The result is stronger classrooms, healthier families, and young people who know how to listen, think critically, and solve problems collaboratively. Our programming has reached thousands of children across the Charleston area and beyond, from kindergarten through sixth grade.

Foundational Tools: How We Work

Where it All Begins: Meet Inchy and Burt

Every great journey starts with a powerful idea made lovable. Inchy the inchworm and Burt the bear are the heart of our programming—characters children trust, root for, and learn alongside. Through their original picture book, Inchy and Burt Make Good Choices, children discover the foundational skill that everything else builds on: learning to pause, find calm, and choose kindness.

This is how we want all children to approach problem solving—and Inchy and Burt make that idea feel safe, exciting, and completely within reach. From this foundation, children move into the hands-on frameworks that give them real tools for real life.

The Four Corners of Communication

Children discover that communication is far more than words. They explore four ways we communicate—bodies and faces, words and tone, creative communication, and actions and choices—building a rich pool of options they can draw from in any situation.

The Choice Map

Students learn to reframe problems as goals, brainstorm options using the Four Corners framework, and think ahead about what might happen before they act. This structured decision-making process gives children the confidence to navigate challenges on their own.

The Simple Mediation Model

When developmentally appropriate, children build upon what they have  learned to embrace the fundamentals of helping others resolve conflict—building empathy, listening skills, and leadership that extends beyond the classroom.

What People are Saying...

Real Strategies

Enriching, Engaging, Necessary

Enriching, Engaging, Necessary

“The strategies you showed the students helped them understand about communicating our needs and wants in a variety of ways. The students actively participated in the discussions and had wonderful ideas to support each other but more importantly, the people they encounter in the real world.”— Kelly Fields, 3rd Grade Teacher, Dunston Primary, North Charleston

Enriching, Engaging, Necessary

Enriching, Engaging, Necessary

Enriching, Engaging, Necessary

“[The] program was enriching, engaging, and very necessary for my fourth grade students. The series of topics and strategies given within them are not only useful to my students but to me as a teacher and person as well!”

— Robert Messer, 4th Grade Teacher, Dunston Primary, North Charleston

Lifelong Skill Sets

Enriching, Engaging, Necessary

Lifelong Skill Sets

“Equipping our students with a method which involves talking it out, brainstorming, exploring options, then identifying positive and negative consequences to those options, empowers our children to take action when dealing with an issue rather than ignoring it, becoming anxious, or acting out in a negative way. These are LIFELONG skill sets!”

— Traci Haberman, 6th Grade Parent

Amazing Instruction

Tools to Process Emotions

Lifelong Skill Sets

“[The instructor] was amazing. She kept the kids engaged throughout the entire lesson. The kids seemed to have a better understanding about how to solve their problems the proper way.”

— Nathan Pitchford, MPO, Charleston Police Department Camp Hope

Tools to Process Emotions

Tools to Process Emotions

Tools to Process Emotions

“Love the ideas of using multiple ways to understand emotions and tools to help process those emotions.”

— Sean Lucas, Master Police Officer, Charleston Police Department Camp Hope

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