Self-Awareness
This skill helps you understand your own thoughts, feelings, and why you react the way you do during conflict.
What is self-awareness?
This is when two or more people have a disagreement or a clash because they have different opinions, wants, or needs.
What is Conflict?
Assertiveness, passiveness, and aggression are examples of different kinds of these skills.
What are communication skills?
This type of listening requires you to look at the speaker’s face and body, avoid interrupting, and truly try to understand what they mean—not just wait for your turn to speak.
What is Active Listening?
When you’re the offender, active listening helps you manage this immediate emotional reaction.
What is defensiveness?
Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes before “going and telling them their fault” is practicing this skill.
What is perspective-taking?
This is a communication style that involves expressing your point of view in a direct and honest way, while still respecting others.
What is Assertiveness?
This communication style respects others and yourself while reducing conflict and building trust.
What is Assertive communication?
This key part of conflict resolution means recognizing how your actions affect others and helps you avoid reacting in ways that create more conflict.
What is Self-Awareness?
Choosing not to stay angry but instead practicing __________ demonstrates mastery of Self Management?
What is forgiveness?
Speaking up clearly and respectfully instead of being passive or aggressive is practicing this SEL skill.
What are assertive communication?
Looking at someone’s face, body, and the situation to understand their feelings uses this skill.
What is identifying feelings in others?
Two “helpers” who are unbiased and impartial can serve in this role during conflict.
What are mediators?
This responsible decision-making step from Matthew 18 involves choosing people who are unbiased and impartial—not people who will take sides—to help resolve the conflict fairly.
HINT: It's the title of the lesson
What is “take one or two others along with you”?
This conflict skill helps you stay calm and focused instead of jumping to conclusions or trying to “prove you’re right” immediately.
What is self-control?
When the goal is reconciliation, not “winning” or proving you’re right, this generosity of spirit reflects what Jesus calls us to do even when conflict continues.
What is forgiveness and peacemaking?
This type of friend helps you see others perspective AND your own, not just agree with you.
What is an Ally?
This phrase from Matthew 18:15 reminds us to address issues privately with the person involved, and not to create more conflict by talking to others first or asking friends to take sides.
What is “between you and him”?
This final step teaches that if someone refuses correction even from the church, you still respond with kindness and generosity, recognizing that the relationship has changed but choosing peace over pride.
What is “treat them as a Gentile and a tax collector”?
Choosing to ask someone for help only to gain _______, not to get an “unhealthy ally” against someone else, is a key self-management skill.
What is perspective?
Choosing not to gossip or “taint someone’s reputation” but instead go directly to the person shows growth in this ability to weigh consequences.
What is responsible decision-making?
When conflict continues even after multiple steps, Jesus still calls for generosity and kindness. The Bible Project video called this?
What is Jesus' radical vision?
You can set these (physical, emotional, and mental) help protect your feelings and show others how to treat you.
What are boundaries?
When someone refuses to listen even to the church, treating them with generosity instead of revenge shows what kind of decision?
What is a generosity?
Jesus teaches nonviolent, generous responses even when conflicts escalate. This requires deep mastery of what internal skill?
What is emotional regulation/self-management?