We offer a wide range of training and consultation services.
Our training goal is to maximize participant learning and to optimize our trainer's capacities to contribute to your learning.
We have agreed on the following guidelines to support all of us in this goal.
We ask that you commit to participating in the entire training block, barring any unforeseen emergencies. Training hours are finite and facilitators work with in a short time line to create a cohesive and supportive learning environment. We hope to facilitate participant needs as a group for safety, comfort, inclusion, contribution, respect and learning. When participants leave early and or come and go, potentially this supportive learning environment is compromised.
As your trainers, we are also learning and growing in our skills and knowledge of Restorative Justice philosophy and practices. We are honored to be a part of this restorative community justice effort and will do our best to contribute and to support your learning and growth. We will offer you the opportunity to provide us with feedback on the training; specific feedback detailing what a trainer did to meet or to not meet your learning goals will further us in our training goal.
- Bullying Prevention
Dr. Title offers customized trainings for schools and community groups on this topic. For more information contact her at btitle@teachingpeace.org.
- Stories Make Meaning
This workshop is fun & interactive. It can be a 90-minute to half-day workshop. It shows participants how to understand and appreciate the power of good stories. Participants learn that an event is a story fragment. They learn how to "story" the event in a simple 1-2-3-format that leads them to discovering personal meaning in the experience. For more information contact Lana Leonard at lanaleo@aol.com
- Victim or Hero? Workshop
This workshop, with an accompanying workbook, is a step-by-step guide to examining past and present experiences of one's life leading to creating a success plan for the future. It is a focussed, highly structured way to help young people look at past events in their lives, the consequences of these experiences and the beliefs that shaped the outcomes. They learn to examine the deep-seated myths and patterns from childhood and culture that govern their lives. Participants learn how to create and recreate the stories of their lives, reframing or "remythologizing" personal assumptions, prejudices, and irrelevant definitions of success into patterns and choices that are appropriate for their success plan. Archetypal, multicultural stories are told to participants inciting them to reflect on the archetypes in their own lives and the possibilities of how things can be.
Participants will be shown the difference between victim and hero behavior and pathways for shifting gears from victim to hero behavior. Instead of being a character in someone else's story, individuals learn how to be the author of their own life story. This workshop is a favorite for 8th grade English or Life Skills classes designed for transitioning students to high school. It has been very successful in alternative school settings, treatment centers, juvenile homes and detention centers. It has been used by Girl Scouts and even college sophomores needing a self-assessment and decision making help in deciding their college majors. The workshop can be custom designed to fit various time needs. For more information contact Lana Leonard at lanaleo@aol.com
- Character Development Through Storytelling
Participants experience and process stories told in ways that develop healthy traits such as honesty, loyalty, respect, gratitude, friendship, fairness, responsibility, compassion and peace. Stories can help build a commitment to goodness and ethical behavior. Rather than behavior modification by external motivation, story nurturing fosters the intrinsic desire to be good. Story-based character development programs are appropriate for teachers, counselors mentors, and students. This can be done in a one hour to one-day format. For more information contact Lana Leonard at lanaleo@aol.com
- Diversity and Multicultural Awareness Through Storytelling
A multidimensional, interactive program that engages participants to experience how differences create possibilities. Like the story of the blind man and the elephant, when I only look through my eyes and those of people like me, I only see a part of the pattern. Participants in this training will discover the essential human themes that transcend culture and time and bind us together as one species. When facing life's challenges, diversity becomes a powerful asset! Customized to fit time needs from half day to one week. For more information contact Lana Leonard at lanaleo@aol.com
- Peace Education Through Storytelling
By their very nature, stories solve problems. "Peace Education through Storytelling" focuses on tools for peaceful resolutions to conflict and win/win solutions to problems. By telling their own story or processing a story told, participants practice skills of: anger management, active listening, empathy, effective communication, creative thinking, cooperation and decision-making. This program can be a training or a workshop and inspires students and administrators alike. As a staff development class, student workshop, or training for counselors, intervention specialists or mediators, participants will focus on tools for peaceful resolutions to conflict and win/win solutions to problems. For more information contact Lana Leonard at lanaleo@aol.com
- Civility Rules
This program and violence prevention resource and activity book (K -12) explores 5 violence prevention topics: Civility, Safety, Responsibility, Tolerance & Respect and Restorative Discipline. Civility rules engages staff and students in setting clearly defined standards for behavior. Student Activities focus on developing assets, character traits and increasing capacity for healthy behavioral choices. On occasions where external sanctions are required, Civility Rules offers a restorative discipline process, which encourages students to take responsibility for their wrongdoing by identifying the harm and repairing it. This can be a one-hour awareness workshop to full 15-20 contact hour staff development class. For more information contact Lana Leonard at lanaleo@aol.com
- Restorative Practices in the Workplace
Workplace 2000 report sited the number 1 reason people were fired from their jobs was inability to get along with others in the workplace. Restorative approaches may be applied in the workplace to increase civility, enhance communication, and resolve conflicts. Customized training and consultation is available to address specific workplace needs. For more information contact summer@teachingpeace.org