The aim of this two-stage project is to acquire key competencies in understanding how stories that frame social experience are formed. Additionally, participants will receive training to work with young people in conflict to help them to re-frame their stories and allow for new possibilities for dialogue and conflict transformation. Stage 1: Story Telling Storytelling is an intrinsic part of the human experience and is an important way in which we organize our experience of the world. Understanding how humans create and use different stories is important because it provides participants with the tools to understand and interact with the social world. This will empower participants to think critically about the narratives that surround them in their personal and professional lives and to understand that these stories are not necessarily set in stone and have the potential to be re-written. These skill sets will enhance participants' employability and professional practice as great storytelling is important for diverse sectors such as marketing but also social professions such as youth work. Particularly youth work that is strife with local, community, national or international conflict. Stage 2: Narrative Conflict Mediation Building on the skills acquired in stage 1, this section of the training will focus on and hone the storytelling skills to specifically engage people who are part of a conflict and use the techniques of narrative conflict mediation to examine possibilities for more creative and nuanced understandings of old stories, which allow for new possibilities for conflict resolution to occur.