Text Box: Elements of our work: 1) Assemblies 2) Workshops 3) Student Clubs - Parent & Faculty Presentations Text Box: Future Leaders For Peace Text Box: Changing Lives By Building Peace

 

 

 

Program Description
Text Box: Assemblies Our first goal is to inspire kids to become better people, and we reach them through our assemblies. Our assemblies can fit any size audience. This is a great way to get the message to everyone at your school. Then we get into more detail. Following the assemblies, we lead small group workshops with select groups of students. Workshops Our workshops focus in on what we started with the assembly. They concentrate on developing leadership and conflict resolution skills through participation and discussion. We bring young graduates from the nation’s top universities into schools. Students of all ages have the opportunity to discuss their daily conflicts with positive role models who encourage their development as future leaders who can bring peace in their schools and communities. Workshop Structure (see details below) We spend 45 minutes with about 30 students developing life skills, or relationship skills. These students can be selected by their teachers, a leadership class, a conflict resolution group, or a regular class of kids. It is up to you. We show them a special video created for our workshops, we speak to the kids briefly, then our college age group leaders lead the students in a discussion. We believe that positive relationships are the most important thing we have. We focus specifically on leadership and conflict resolution. The workshops strengthen communication skills and build a sense of empathy in the classroom. Follow Up & Clubs We leave behind, bookmarks, posters, and a copy of our Executive Director’s children’s book at every school where we work. Through our Future Leaders For Peace Clubs, we provide follow up to our workshops. We customize this program to meet the needs of each school. The general framework is for participating students to meet weekly. After each meeting students are assigned an activity that helps reinforce our messages in the real world. They discuss the effect of these actions in the following meeting. Parent & Faculty Presentations Our young team members are experienced in delivering inspirational speeches on moral leadership and conflict management. We can provide keynote speakers for both youth and adult events. We believe that conflict management and relationship skills start at home. By working with parent we can reach the kids more effectively.

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Studies show that, “Schools will be most successful in their educational mission when they integrate efforts to promote children’s academic, social, and emotional learning.”

 

(Elias, 1997, Promoting Social and Emotional Learning: Guidelines for Educators.)

 

 

Preventing Conflict:

           Think & BLINK

                      -Back off

                      -Look around

                      -Intuit (trust your instincts)

                      -Negotiate

                      -Know when to walk away

Preventing Conflict Before It Escalates

 

 

Keys to Conflict Management:

           1) Communicate Honestly

 

           2) Listen

 

           3) Treat Others As You Want to Be Treated

 

           4) Have Clear Goals

Conflict Management & Leadership

Listen to Jonathan speaking to groups of adults about our work as well as stories of leadership, relationships, and conflict.

 

  Relationship Levels

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  Oxygen Masks

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  Contagious Conflict

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  Eric’s Story

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  Fight Videos

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Photography by Margaret Hunter

We have worked with nearly 10,000 young people in Richmond, Berkeley, San Francisco, Union City, Marin County, San Mateo County, Sonoma County, Placer County, Hawaii, and South Africa.

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