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 21st 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”