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
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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
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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)
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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.