An important piece of the orientation and transition process is helping new students feel like they are part of the campus community. This powerful program provides a tool designed to create a greater sense of involvement, connection and community. Learn to build safe, healthy, and fun environments on your campus where students feel and know they are valued, appreciated and empowered; a place new students will want to call “home.” Create a lasting legacy of inspiration and BE THE CHANGE you wish to see on your campus
Creating Campus Communities, Campus Violence and Safety
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Connect-5 College Completion Program
The dynamic real world lessons of the Connect-5 Program are born of Tawan’s first-hand experiences as a struggling student, non-traditional student, successful student, student leader, and college administrator. Each STEP in the program specifically addresses the yearly needs of a student’s educational experience – from college prep to cap and gown. It’s a step-by-step, day-by-day approach to college success. Through the Connect-5 Programs students are encouraged to embrace their own unique college experiences and get everything they can out of their four years.
He Hit Me! Now What Do I Do?
Using keys from her LiSENSE 2 DATE program, creator and College Love Coach, Dr. Torri “Love” Griffin, LPC instructs students on how to use common SENSE to remove NONSENSE so their relationships make SENSE. Every college student has an internal navigation system that gets set off whenever something their partner does looks strange, sounds suspicious, feels funny, smells fishy, or has no taste. Driving under the influence can blur the senses of brilliant and beautiful college co-eds and result in wrecks on the highway of love.
In this session students learn to safely navigate through dark and lonely streets and situations that often lead to unwanted sexual involvement; recognize, read and respond to important signs given by partners in relationships so they can avoid sudden, shocking surprises; know what to do if they get hit by another vehicle to avoid the cycle of abuse; and more.
Healthy Relationships 101
Healthy relationships start with a focus on self-care and well-being. That’s the philosophy of Self-Care Specialist, Felicia Harlow. Is this program, Felicia focuses on positive self image and the positive feelings, thoughts, choices and behaviors that are the foundational ingredients of healthy dating and friendships. Audiences will learn the true meaning of relationships and how to recognize the signs of an unhealthy one. In addition, they’ll learn how spiritual health attracts healthy relationships, come to understand how balanced living contributes to healthy relationships and walk away with quick and easy self care techniques for healthy living in college.
Hurt So Bad: Exploring Domestic Violence through Interactive Drama
Utilizing gripping drama, music and spoken word, the audience doesn’t merely observe. They participate in the story through audience-inclusive scenes, character appeals and question and answer sessions. Dr. and Mrs. Willard become flesh and bone to participants, as the real life ramifications of domestic violence comes to life. Through this interactive peek into a life which is both unimaginable and all too real, students will learn: the characteristics of emotional, psychological and physical abuse; how to identify the signs of an abusive relationship; why people remain in abusive relationships; the dire consequences of remaining in abusive relationships; ways to avoid and escape abusive relationships; and more.
Peacemaking Circles: Changing the Face of Organizational Conflict
Are you ready for some real change in the way your organization deals with conflict? Then you’re ready for peacemaking circles and restorative justice. This program requires the participation of student leadership and campus advisors for maximum impact. Applying ancient principles to modern experiences, peacemaking circles and other restorative processes are gaining new value in communities and campuses across the country. Learn a new system for dealing with conflict in a way that creates positive, lasting change. Take the first steps in designing a peacemaking circle program for your organization and begin to realize the benefits of this powerful alternative form of conflict resolution.
Simply Ridiculous Dating
Based on her hot selling book, “Simply Ridiculous!,” Millicent St. Claire focuses this program on the ridiculous nature of control, violence and abuse in dating relationships. As a master facilitator of personal transformation Millicent discusses dating issues that range from ‘playing the victim role’ to ‘looking for love in all the wrong places’ and everything in between. Audiences will learn how to recognize their own ridiculous behaviors that allow unhealthy relationships to exist. They’ll learn how to alter their view of themselves as one who has the power to prevent or stop controlling and abusive relationships. Students will leave with new tools and perspectives that will help them see their own ‘Simply Ridiculous’ behaviors and take the creation of positive dating and friendships into their own hands.
Working & Living with Difficult People
It’s going to happen – getting a dorm mate from HELL! They don’t clean up after themselves, the bathroom looks like a disaster area and to make matters worse they keep borrowing things from you WITHOUT ASKING. Now imagine you work with this person EVERYDAY! There’s no getting around it, it will happen. So, what does it take to work and live with this person without serving jail time?? This is a CAN’T MISS program in conflict resolution that will come in handy for years to come.
