Social Emotional Education (SEED) is part of our workshop curriculum that we incorporate to teach social emotional skills to youth and adults. SEED offers assistance to teachers, parents, school administrators, police, or nonprofits in the areas of conflict resolution, empathy, cultural diversity, awareness and peer mediation training. SEED programs can be directly implemented to community members or with institutions and efforts that support the advancement of youth and adults by providing specialized trainings.
By incorporating SEED into our programs, we are:
- Building Inclusive Communities: By fostering a sense of belonging and inclusivity, SEED helps create supportive learning environments where every student feels valued and understood.
- Promoting Lifelong Skills: The competencies developed through SEED are not just for academic success; they are essential life skills that students carry into adulthood.
- Supporting Academic Success: Research shows that students who participate in SEED programs demonstrate improved classroom behavior, better attitudes about themselves and others, and increased academic performance.
- Enhancing Emotional Intelligence: SEED programs focus on the development of self-awareness and self-management, which are key components of emotional intelligence.
- Encouraging Positive Relationships: Through SEED, students learn to establish and maintain healthy and rewarding relationships based on cooperation, resistance to inappropriate social pressure, negotiation, and refusal skills.
- Cultivating Responsible Decision-Making: SEED teaches students to make ethical, constructive choices about personal and social behavior.
- Addressing Societal Challenges: SEED can help tackle issues of inequity and promote social justice by empowering students to challenge and change unfair systems.
- Engaging Families and Communities: SEED emphasizes the importance of connecting schools with families and communities to build a cohesive and collaborative approach to education.
- Committing to Continuous Improvement: Effective SEED implementation involves an ongoing process of reflection, evaluation, and refinement to ensure the evolving needs of students are met.
- Advancing Educational Excellence: Organizations like SEED provide frameworks and resources that support educators in integrating SEED into their teaching practices, benefiting students and the broader educational landscape.
- Shaping Future Leaders: By instilling these core competencies early on, SEED helps nurture the next generation of empathetic, responsible, and socially aware leaders.
We engage with topics such as:
· HOW I HANDLE CONFLICT
· ACTIVE LISTENING RULES AND STYLES
· “I” Messages: Communicating Clearly and Completely
· Understanding BODY LANGUAGE
· Cultural Empathy: “I didn’t mean to offend you”
· Key concepts in COMMUNICATION SKILLS
· UNDERSTANDING BASIC HUMAN NEEDS *Roadblocks to Communication
· 4 STEPS TO CONFLICT MEDIATION
· Life Skills: High School Survival 101