Standing Together: A Journey Into Respect Activity Guide
10-SESSION PROGRAM, Ages 9-14
This guide provides engaging ways to address common themes which pre-teens and early adolescents encounter, including breaking down social-cultural barriers, motives and actions around put-downs, knowing their personal rights, defining assumptions about male power, respecting others'' physical boundaries, understanding and using the energy of strong emotions, and standing up for each other in community.
10-SESSION PROGRAM, Ages 9-14
This guide provides engaging ways to address common themes which pre-teens and early adolescents encounter, including breaking down social-cultural barriers, motives and actions around put-downs, knowing their personal rights, defining assumptions about male power, respecting others'' physical boundaries, understanding and using the energy of strong emotions, and standing up for each other in community.
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Session
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Theme
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Activity/Description
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| 1 | Creating Our Council | Developing an Opening and Closing Ritual & Creating Council Agreements |
| 2 | Similar and Different | Are we More Alike or Different? & If I Were a . . . |
| 3 | Put Downs – Part I | Put downs & Put-ups role-play |
| 4 | Put Downs – Part II | Keeping Each Other Afloat & Balloon Bash |
| 5 | Space Invaders | Physical Boundaries |
| 6 | Boys’ Rights | My Boundaries & Charter to Protect and Respect Boundaries |
| 7 | E-motions – Part I | Who’s Feeling is that Anyway? & My Most Common Emotions |
| 8 | E-motions – Part II | Storytelling and Role-playing feelings |
| 9 | Boys & Power | Aces and Deuces |
| 10 | Community & Recognition | Group acknowledgment books |