Peacemakers' Workshop
Grade Level: 4th or 5th GradePeacemakers' Workshop is an engaging five-hour workshop where students are empowered to discover their own peacemaking abilities. Peacemakers' Workshop encourages students and adults alike to build communities of mutual respect, cooperation, personal accountability and tolerance. Through cooperative games, small group study, and role play, students practice healthy ways to communicate, manage conflict nonviolently, build self esteem and think critically about the impact peaceful action has on their community.
PLC's six peace tools are easily transferred for use in the classroom, lunch room, playground, bus stop and home. These tools emphasize active listening, rephrasing, point of view, understanding, empathy, and restorative practice. Students gain confidence in communicating and in resolving conflict nonviolently, with minimal adult intervention. The workshop ends with an outdoor hike on the adjacent Koenen Land Preserve and offers students an opportunity to examine their human connection to the natural world.
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*Endorsed by MPS Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative and the Riverwest Health Initiative
