Middle School and High School

Assertiveness Training for Girls

• Determine personal comfort zones and set boundaries that stick
• Distinguish among passive, assertive and aggressive behavior
• Learn about the importance of voice control and body language when dealing with acquaintances and strangers who do not respect personal or professional boundaries

Stepping Forward: Leadership Training for Teens

• Learn the hallmarks of collaborative leadership
• Understand the roles of emotional intelligence and technical knowledge
• Understand one’s talents and skills and learn how to apply them in the real world

Did I Just Say That? Inclusivity Training for Teens

• Learn why microaggressions matter: Intent vs. Impact
• Understand the veils of social interaction
• Recognize adverse communication situations and practice resolution skills

 Is There an Emoji for That? Social Media Training for Teens

• Safe social media use
• The positive and negative effects of social media
• Understand Social Media Identity 

Conflict Transformation

• Learn the five conflict styles and recognize when each is most effective
• Master the building blocks to assertive communication
• Understand the impact of nonverbal communication

Loud and Clear: Understanding Listening Styles and Gaining Listening Skills

• Decode nonverbal communication
• Develop active listening skills
• Learn to communicate like a listener and listen with empathy

Media Literacy

• Learn to be active consumers of popular culture
• Understand how media shapes values and cultural beliefs about love, sexuality, and other issues
• Make conscious, values-based choices about media consumption

Healthy Minds, Healthy Bodies

• Evaluate negative results of poor body image (e.g., eating disorders, self destructive behaviors) as well as the psychological and social impact of these disorders
• Understand the role mass media plays in developing cultural ideals of beauty for men and women
• Establish a realistic and attainable sense of beauty

Public Speaking With Confidence

• Decrease public speaking anxiety and increase confidence
• Learn the essential components of a good presentation
• Prepare and successfully deliver a speech and receive audience feedback

Job Interview Skills

• Develop strategies for communicating competence
• Gain skills for reducing anxiety
• Learn to be a confident negotiator

Parenting with Compassion and Connection

• Develop strategies that reduce frustration
• Keep marriages strong in the face of sibling rivalry, divisive children, and other set-backs
• Explore the challenges of parenting, including discipline and parenting special needs children

Mean Girls, Cliques, and BFFs: Bullying Solutions for Girls

(Middle and High School)

• Understand how relational aggression (RA)/female bullying erodes the self-confidence of target and bully alike
• Develop problem-solving and conflict resolution skills to take an active role in creating a bully-resistant environment
• Understand how media impacts girls’ relationships
• Learn about the power of empathy to transform relationships

Man Up: Bullying Solutions for Boys (Middle and High School)

• Learn to take an active role in creating a bully-resistant environment
• Learn about the power of empathy to transform relationships
• Gain verbal and nonverbal communication skills to respond to bullying
• Understand what constitutes unwelcome attention and sexual harassment

Not in Our School: Creating and Maintaining a Bully-Resistant Environment

• Identify and support participants in the bullying triad (bully, target, and bystander)
• Understand communication dynamics that perpetuate the bullying cycle versus those that foster positive communication
• Enhance established academic curricula to incorporate anti-bullying pedagogy and foster empathy and collaboration

From Milk Money to Cyber-Stalking: Understanding Bullying in the 21^st Century (For Parents)

• Understand the roles played in the bullying paradigm
• Learn to recognize the warning signs of children impacted by bullying
• Develop strategies for raising empathetic children who take an active leadership role in creating bully-resistant environments

Communicating, Dating and Relating for Girls

• Enhance interpersonal communication skills for work, school, and dating situations
• Practice setting and enforcing boundaries
• Master physical self-defense techniques to handle worst case scenarios

Communicating, Dating and Relating for Boys

• Master conflict resolution, de-escalation, and physical self-defense skills
• Learn to correctly interpret verbal and nonverbal communication common in social situations, including dating
• Understand what constitutes unwelcome attention and sexual harassment

Keeping Our Children Safe: Sane Talk for Concerned Parents

• Develop a realistic sense of dangers facing today’s children
• Learn how to talk to children about safety in an empowering rather than frightening way
• Gain information about avoiding abduction, molestation, and peer harassment/assault

Teen Esteem for Personal Safety (1-hour assembly program)

• Gain skills for avoidance, deterrence, and resistance of physical and verbal assault
• Learn to assess the potential danger in a situation
• Get answers to questions about assertiveness, safety, and self-defense in this interactive seminar

A Girl’s Best Defense: Self-Defense Workshop for Teen Girls

• Build communication skills and self-Esteem to set effective boundaries
• Master physical self-defense techniques
• Deliver full-force blows to equipment or padded instructor
• May include opportunity to participate in simulated assaults with padded “assailant”

Esteem for Boys: Self-Defense Workshop for Teen Boys

• Gain conflict resolution skills and techniques for de-escalating altercations
• Understand what constitutes unwelcome attention and sexual harassment
• Deliver full-force blows to equipment or padded instructor
• May include opportunity to participate in simulated assaults with padded “assailant”