10-week 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.
| Week |
Theme |
Activity/Description |
| 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 |
