Wings For Wishes Academy

Bully Proof Your Kids...
Classroom and Community

Teaching Kindness and Compassion to Create a Caring Culture

One Day Training Program

Understanding the Root Causes of Bullying, Anger and Violence

  • Why Are Kids So Mean: Cause, Consequence and Correction
  • Seven Types of Bullies and Prescribed Actions
  • Recognizing Danger Signals of Both Primal and Cognitive Anger
  • The Mean Girl Syndrome: Girls Go Viral and Get Vicious
  • Violence: The “Fun” Addiction and Power Thrills

Weapons without Wisdom: The Impulsive Brain

  • Brain Spurts and DNA: Why Smart Teens Make Dumb Decisions
  • How Childhood Activities and Habits Hardwire Your Brain
  • The Marshmallow Theory: Impulse and Instant Gratification
  • Society’s Shame: Giving Children Weapons without Wisdom

Cyberbullying: The New Teen Terrorism

  • The Bullying that Never Sleeps: Harassment 24/7
  • Friends as Bullies: How the Internet Depersonalizes
  • Words Are Forever: Body’s Heal – Minds Don’t Mend
  • Nine Steps to Stop Cyberbullying
  • Detecting, Reporting, Law Enforcement and Legal Rights

Implementing Systems of Prevention

  • Making Diversity Work: R-E-S-P-E-C-T and LGBT Challenges
  • Creating a Safe Space: School Policies, Procedures and Reporting  
  • Empathy Education: Campaigns for Compassion and Kindness
  • Resilience: Emotional Immunity and Psychological Self Defense
  • Five Steps to Overcoming Motivational Deficits
  • Seven Ways to Convert Bystanders to Upstanders Who Take Action

 Seven Intervention Tools that Convert Conflict into Cooperation

  • Ownerships: How to Implement a Values Contract
  • Peer Mediation and Conflict Management
  • The Peace Circle
  • Sociodrama, Role Playing and Interactive Methods
  • AQ-Implementing the Action Intelligence Model
  • Inspired Discipline – Integrating the 5 R’s or Respect:  Responsibility – Repentance – Resolution – Restitution – Reconciliation  
  • Not Time Out – Time In: Rewriting Your Life’s Script   

Getting the Buy-In: Bystanders, Parents and the Community

  • Twelve Steps to a Team Approach for Creating Community Support
  • Making It Easy: Ownership, Responsibility and Accountability
  • Practice the Four Elements of a Buy In Process
  • Develop Influence and Persuasion Skills that Convince and Commit
  • How to Convert Gang Leaders into Bully Busters
  • Enablers and Bystanders: Bullies by Default

Bullets:

  • All Bullies are Not Alike: Define the Seven Types
  • Implement the AQ – Action Intelligence Model
  • Revenge and Cognitive Aggression: Identifying The Silent Killer
  • Why Punishment and Exclusion Don’t Work and What Does
  • Learn Influence and Persuasion Skills to Get the Buy-In  
  • Easy Targets: Kids with Special Needs and Autism
  • Engaging Parents and the Community: Creating a Caring Culture
  • Develop a Five Step Program for Teens with Motivational Deficits

Objectives:

  1.  Identify the varying levels of danger of anger and bullying behaviors
  2. List resources for monitoring, reporting and preventing cyberbullying
  3. Develop action plans for creating a safe learning environment
  4. Learn classroom management techniques that transform behaviors
  5. Promote prevention and resilience: Changing beliefs and intentions
  6. Implement systems of intervention: Making bystanders accountable
  7. Develop support systems: Getting families and communities involved