Creating Compassionate Communities
to Eliminate Bullying in Schools, Families and Beyond
Workshops for Elementary and Middle Schools
Teachers learn empathy-building games that help students care about each other
Photo Courtesy Adelphi University
Program Highlights
The one-semester or full-year program for teachers includes:
- Empathy games that build gratitude and warmth
- Card Games so students can identify their own and others’ needs to foster conflict resolution
- Fun play with feelings that keeps everyone laughing and bonding
- Exercises that foster compassion with self and others
Workshops for High Schools
Teachers learn empathy-building games that help student support each other
Photo Courtesy Adelphi University
Program Highlights
The one-semester or full-year program includes:
- Empathy games that teach students how to make
non-judgmental observations - Mindful meditation for compassion
- Play that helps students resolve conflicts
- Assertiveness Training: Respecting their own and others’ needs instead of being passive, passive-aggressive or aggressive in their social dynamics
Coaching for Families
(Conducted via phone, Skype or video)
Program Highlights
Parents learn how to develop more compassionate family relationships (Conducted via phone, Skype or video):
- Stop hurtful name-calling and learn to describe concerns without judgment
- Transform exasperation and defeat to a mindful ability to identify feelings; and to accept each other’s emotional responses
- Reduce yelling and recognize instead how feelings reveal underlying needs
- Evolve repeated conflict into creative resolution
Try one workshop and see if this program is right for your family, your marriage/partnership, children and/or the whole household.