Workshops & Training

Are you interested in creating a culture in your organization that cares of kids and community? These workshops can follow a keynote presentation or simply stand alone. They are truly effective.

WORKSHOPS


Building Healthy Strength-Based Schools

Based on extensive work in schools, participants will learn about the key assets and research that promote thriving behaviors and decrease high risk behaviors. This workshop is interactive and each participant will have a seven point plan on how to create change without having to change the entire system! A perfect adjunct to the keynote."

Our Most Valuable Resource: Our Kids

Our youth are ready, willing, and able to help change the school climate and community. In this highly charged, dynamic ½ day or day long training, students will enjoy and learn the keys of leadership from the book “Good to Great,” and then plan how they can help change the school climate. Their ideas are remarkable – why? No one ever asked them before! This is for every level, and is modified to meet their needs. Leadership combined with service are an unbeatable pair. As one student put it, “I didn’t think the adults believed we could do anything!” Their ideas are practical, real, and heart warming. For cost-effectiveness, train up to 100 at a time!

TOTAL SCHOOL INITIATIVE: THE FOUR CIRCLE APPROACH


The student, parent, school, and community strength based initiative is designed to bring the key players in the school and community together to focus on building a strength-based environment where
students can thrive. Based upon research from the Gallup Organization and Search Institute, a strength based or “asset approach” have been shown to have a significant impact upon student achievement, test scores, and attendance. They are also a powerful way to reduce high risk behaviors. With this innovative model, all four circles – students, families, staff, and community share a role in this process. Each of these circles will be trained in a strength based approach so all are actively engaged in forming circles of support around our kids.

WORKSHOP 
As a stand alone or follow up to the keynote continue the excitement with more stories and data behind a strength based or asset approach. Participants will interact, see how they can use the data in practical ways, and develop seven point action plan on very real, practical ways to bring this about. 

THE STUDENT LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE EVENT 

In this dynamic, high energy, and fun training, you will be tapping into the most underutilized resource in the WORLD today - our youth. In this leadership and service training, students will learn leadership from the best selling book “Good to Great,” and identify service projects they can do in school to improve the school or community climate. What’s the good news? Students involved in service are 51% less likely to be engaged in high risk behavior and leadership training leads to thriving behaviors. Train up to 100 students at a time starting at 5th grade (you pick the grade levels)and let’s get our kids changing the school and community! 

PARENTS
In the ‘good old days” if a student did something wrong, the parents were upset with the students. Today, parents are now mad at the schools! Time to change this paradigm around. In this interactive and informative presentation, parents, grandparents, and guardians will interact, see the powerful data behind building strengths, and have a very practical action plan how they can be positive forces for change at school, support, not oppose school staff, and have a list of 20 small, but powerful and  powerful practices they can use to help their kids.  
 
From Total School Strength Based Approach; James Vollbracht; jvollbrach@aol.com  
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