An approach to elevate existing program designs with cutting edge research on growth mindset and social-emotional learning.

Combat cliques and bullying! Building Intentional Communities Bully Survival Kit. Kit includes:

• One-Hour Skype Training
• Welcome Packet
• Dismantling Cliques Strategies
• Tools to Build a Communication Zone
• Talk It Out (process adapted from Barbra E. Sanderson’s work)
• Curriculum Tools:
  • Experiential Activities to Promote Group Development & Youth Leadership
  • Experiential Activities to Create a Climate of Peace, Non-Violence, and Restorative Practices

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• Developing Leadership: Experiential Activities to Promote Group Development & Youth Leadership
• Icebreakers & Team Builders to Elicit Group Values

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• Reflection and Engagement: Experiential Activities to Explore Values
• Icebreakers & Team Builders to Elicit Group Values

• One-Hour Skype Overview Session
• Curriculum Tools:
  • Supervision for Effective Employee Development in a Youth Development Context
  • 25 activities to Develop a Professional Learning Community
• Welcome Packet

This tool kit of forty-five activities is for professionals who work with elementary-aged youth and support the facilitation of structured lessons based in youth-development theory. These activities will support emerging as well as experienced facilitators in developing interactive and educational experiences for youth, and will create more time to focus on building relationships and strengthening community in programs.

• Establishing Connections: Activities to Create a Safe and Fun Community
• Creating Agreements: Activities to Strengthen Relationships
• Building Community: Activities to Encourage Youth Participation
• Deepening Skills: Activities to Build Skills and Connect to Learning
• Practicing Core Values: Activities to Explore Community Involvement

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Fifty activities designed to explore and reinforce the application of values. These activities serve as core gateway activities to teach young people the developmental skills required for healthy, productive adulthoods:

• The skills of productivity through Wellness and Growth
• The skills of connectivity through Friendship and Accountability
• The skills of navigation through Peace & Justice.

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Icebreakers and team-building exercises are important tools in a facilitator’s toolbox. They allow for simple and engaging activities that provoke group members’ curiosity about who else is in the room and the multiple perspectives that participants hold. They establish an ethos of a growth mindset—the belief that the learning process is just as important as the learning outcomes. Using the activities in this box will shift the level of comfort, trust, and intimacy within your group so that simple activities can be used to make deep connections to issues of social justice and personal accountability toward making the world a better and safer place for everyone.

The fifty activities in this box offer strategies to continuously engage your participants in discovering themselves, their peers, and their worlds. In each one we pair a selection of powerful debrief questions that can be used to move the group from the direct context of the exercise to abstract thinking about community and social context.

• Making Connections: exercises for participants to learn about each other
• Breaking the Ice: fast-paced team-building challenges
• Creating Trust: activities to challenge group boundaries
• Building Community: activities to activate personal values
• Closing the Circle: rituals to create closure

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Icebreakers and team-building exercises are important tools in a facilitator's toolbox. Whether participants are learning an academic subject or taking part in a fun enrichment exercise, young people need to feel a sense of ownership, connecting, and input to stay engaged in the learning process. The forty-eight activities in this box offer simple, hands-on strategies to get youth connected, into their bodies, and out of their comfort zones and to translate learning into applied action.

In each activity, we offer powerful debrief questions to help young people understand how they learn, what they care about, and how they can connect each experience to other moments in their lives. Using the activities in this box will shirt the level of comfort, trust, and intimacy within your group so that simple activities can be used to make deep connections to the social and emotional learning climate.

• Section One: Breaking the Ice
• Section Two: Holding Space
• Section Three: Deepening Connection
• Section Four: Getting Physical
• Section Five: Solving Problems
• Section Six: In Summary

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Thirty-five lessons with over sixty activities introduce participants to tools, strategies, and discussions to unpack conflict and re-imagine what a peaceful community looks like.

Relationships are the most critical building block for all learning. Without strong relationships, young people struggle to gain the safety and security to raise their hands, share an idea, take a risk, or try something new. Conflict is a natural part of life, and must enter any classroom group. Equipping young people with the mindset, tools, and skills to navigate conflict is an important part of social emotional development. As young people build the skills to stay in "right relationship," restorative practices can be used to restore relationships and address harm as it arises.

We offer a three-fold approach to transforming conflict.

• Prevention - Building the social and emotional capacity of youth to identify emotions, master their thoughts, prevention and see the complexity of perceptions in any situation.
• Intervention - Learning skills to address conflict when it arises, and embrace it as an opportunity to learn about oneself, peers, and seek win-win solutions.
• Restoration - Developing rituals and practices to maintain connections and relationships with others during and after conflict.

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This Enrichment curriculum will introduce participants to a new way of connecting to the food we eat. Throughout these sixteen lessons, youth will learn about health and nutrition, be exposed to various tastes, learn how to prepare their own dishes, and participate in a series of challenges. The last unit, “Leaders of Today”, is designed to help your youth find ways to take what they have learned in the course and to give back to their communities. Offering young people opportunities to teach others deepens their own learning.

• Unit One: Building Intentional Community
• Unit Two: Nutrition
• Unit Three: Culinary Champ Cook-Off
• Unit Four: Leaders of Today

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Welcome to Take A Bow! This sixteen-session enrichment is designed for actors and dramatic enthusiasts to build community, engage in dramatic play, build concrete acting skills, and finally put it all together to create theater for social change. Theater has long been used as a tool to bring communities and people together. In this enrichment, participants will learn how the idea of ensemble creates strong dynamics between actors and how plays can bring together communities to engage in important issues.

• UNITS: 1. Building Intentional Community 2. Acting 101 3. Telling Stories 4. Leaders of Today
• SAFETY AND RELATIONSHIP BUILDING: 1. Building Relationships 2. Group Agreements 3. We "Play" Theater
• SKILL BUILDING: 4. Improvisation 5. Character Development 6. Voice Projection 7. Stage Directions
• YOUTH PARTICIPATION: 8. Rewrite the Script 9. Time for Monologues 10. Memorize Me 11. The Director's Choice 12. Lights, Camera, Action!
• COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: 13. It's Youth-Led! 14. What's in the Playbill 15. Looking Back to Look Forward 16. Let's Celebrate

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Create the right environment with thoughtful practices. Ten steps of intentional program design enable your program to shape the experience of your space, in these three sections:

• Define the space
• Set the mood through asset-based language
• Build behavior management system

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This implementation guide offers a method for integrating authentic youth leadership into your program design. By creating the right conditions for learning, we can help young people stay connect to their intrinsic motivation to learn, grow, and act as leaders in the world around them. This guide will help you structure intentional ladders that allow youth to increase the level of input, autonomy, and leadership they experience. By creating experiences that allow young people to take on meaningful roles and create powerful social change, we help youth make the connections between what they want to do and what they need to learn. When young people's curiosity motivates their desire to learn, the ways we teach can dramatically shift. This guide presents a formulaic approach to this shirt.

At times our current education system sends the message that learning first happens in the classroom and that it is only in the real world that we apply our learning. We can shift this message. Our young people can be leaders today! When young people see themselves as leaders, their desire to contribute, participate, and engage increases.

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This simple to use collection of professional development and reflection activities are designed to support a group of colleagues to refine their shared vision and values for the type of organization they want to create. The exercises provided will help your team establish practices and strategies that support the intentional community you want to create. Research shows that groups that learn and think together are able to make more cohesive decisions as a team, which supports intentional community buildng. These activities can be facilitated in 45-90 minutes, and are ideal tools to rotate facilitation amongst a team of facilitators.

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