Intermission

As we wrap up programming with our first school, I want to hit the pause button and let things soak in. We have now been implementing student led peer mediation training for the last three months and it is one of the highlights of the work we do at Conflict Resolution Center – St. Louis.

This blog serves as a record book of notable moments in this piloting process, and we believe having this documentation will be a primary source to help answer the question, “How can we improve our next time around?” It has also given us reason to give thanks.

In this moment of reflection, we want to thank those of you following our journey. We love sharing the joyous and challenging moments with you, and hope that you have been able to take away something from our experiences as well.

I am also experiencing feelings of gratitude to this process, to our kids who welcome us each week, to our staff, and for those who have done peer mediation work before us.

Soon, we will hit the unpause button and go back to programming and lesson planning and facilitating and a few hundred other things with our partnerships (we have plans to run a peer mediation program at our local library in the summer. Yay!) but now, we rest.