Living Values Education Workshop
for Educators, Principals, MFTs, LEPs, LCSWs and LPCCs
July 19 – 21, 2013
6:00 p.m. Friday evening through 5:00 p.m. Sunday
Anubhuti Retreat Center
Novato, California
Join us for an inspiring weekend … reflect on values, and a paradigm and process that reverses bullying. Come and learn more about methods that create much more peace and respect in your classroom, school or facility, and activities that help young people of all ages, from toddlers to young adults, explore and develop universal values and positive social and emotional skills.
About LVE
Living Values Education is a comprehensive values education program. This innovative global program, being implemented in more than 60 countries, offers professional development workshops, a practical methodology and a wide variety of experiential values activities to educators to help them provide the opportunity for children and young adults to explore and develop universal values.
The regular LVE curriculum provides activities for toddlers through university students with values units on peace, respect, love, cooperation, happiness, honesty, humility, responsibility, simplicity, tolerance, freedom and unity, and a parent-group facilitator guide for parents. In this course we will also provide to mental health professionals the opportunity to explore separate educational resources for at-risk youth ages 14 and above and young people in need drug rehabilitation. Should middle-school or high-school teachers wish to implement Living Values Activities for At-Risk Youth they will need to stay with the workshop some additional time, that is, until noon on Monday, July 22nd.
This workshop is open to:
· educators in public, charter and private schools who wish to use the regular LVE resources; and
· counselors, drug counselors, social workers and psychologists who wish to use Living Values Activities for At-Risk Youth or Living Values Activities for Drug Rehabilitation resources. Twelve C.E.U.s are available to MFTs, LEPs, LCSWs and LPCCs, liscensed in California through the Board of Behavioral Sciences.
Learning Outcomes for Educators
This professional development workshop is highly recommended for educators who wish to optimally help young people explore and develop values through LVE.
Educators will:
· reflect on the role values play in their life and in the world;
· learn about the LVE Approach and the process of developing values;
· practice acknowledgement and active listening skills that will allow them to deal with student resistance more easily and effectively;
· learn about non-violent discipline methods that help all students feel safe and respected in the classroom;
· experience and have access to relaxation/focusing exercises that help young people be more centered and better able to self-regulate;
· have more than one hundred activities to help students develop 12 universal values and positive intrapersonal and interpersonal social and emotional skills including listening to each other, conflict resolution, cooperative communication, and assertive benevolence;
· understand how values education can strengthen a student’s motivation to make positive social choices;
· learn how to facilitate a program that teaches empathy, drastically reduces bullying and has students spontaneously resolving issues with the language of values within months.
Learning Outcomes for Mental Health Practitioners
Counselors, social workers and psychologists will be able to have access to specialized Living Values Education drug rehab and at-risk youth resources after this course for use in their practice.
Clinicians will:
· Understand and be able to describe factors that contribute to creating a values-based atmosphere in which young people feel safe;
· Utilize methods to create a values-based atmosphere to increase the openness of youth to therapeutic intervention and improve the client’s resiliency;
· Be able to evaluate clinical interventions in relation to LVE’s Theoretical Model and adapt methods accordingly (and help caregivers adapt their methods) so that each intervention helps young people move toward their potential;
· Create and/or evaluate a behavior plan for troubled youth in accordance with the critical components of LVE’s Theoretical Model in order to increase efficacy;
· Be able to use relaxation/focusing exercises to help youth improve their ability to self-regulate and deal with their feelings of pain and trauma;
· Select activities for clients to put them in touch with the values that are most important to them and their life;
· Add to their repertoire of activities to help at-risk youth increase their intrapersonal skills and interpersonal skills, including empowering self-talk, benevolent assertion and dealing with violence;
· Understand how to move initial learning of skills to a higher commitment level of values so that at-risk youth are more likely to utilize positive social and emotional skills and be able to utilize methods to do so; and
· Have available relapse prevention activities for groups of youth.
LVE Resources
The Living Values series of five books, published by Health Communications, Inc., was awarded the 2002 Teachers’ Choice Award, an award sponsored by Learning magazine, a national publication for teachers and educators in the USA. The last two books noted are of restricted access. They are made available only to educators, counselors, social workers, therapists and psychologists who undergo training for these particular modules.
¨ Living Values Activities for Children Ages 3–7
¨ Living Values Activities for Children Ages 8–14
¨ Living Values Activities for Young Adults
¨ LVEP Educator Training Guide
¨ Living Values Parent Groups: A Facilitator Guide
¨ Living Values Activities for Drug Rehabilitation
¨ Living Values Activities for At-Risk Youth
In this training, there will be focus on LVE in general and the two at-risk books noted below (for those who wish to use those materials).
Living Values Activities for Drug Rehabilitation — The 102 lessons in this curriculum weave in values activities on peace, respect, love, cooperation, honesty, humility and happiness from Living Values Activities for Young Adults, with lessons related to drug use, emotional issues that arise with addiction and its concomitant behaviors, and the building of social and relapse-prevention skills. This valuable resource can be used as part of a systematic program with the lessons done in sequence. It can be used with the AA program.
Living Values Activities for At-Risk Youth — The 92 lessons in this curriculum weave in values activities on peace, respect, love, cooperation, honesty, humility and happiness, with lessons related to positive choices, goals, violence, drug use, gang involvement, negative influences and concomitant emotional issues, along with the building of positive social and emotional skills. Participants are told a series of stories to engage them in a process of healing and to learn about a culture of peace and respect.
The approach in both books is based on Living Values Education’s methodology. Facilitators will help young people to explore and develop values in a group-facilitated process by first exploring their own dreams for a better world. Lessons on peace and respect build self-confidence and a supportive values-based atmosphere in the group, prior to beginning choice-related lessons in which participants are asked to explore and share their journey and explore consequences. The young people are invited to explore many aspects of their experience and build skills through discussion, art, role-playing and skits/dramas. Relaxation/focusing exercise are designed to help them deal with their anger and pain and learn to self-regulate more effectively. Positive intrapersonal and interpersonal social and emotional skills are taught throughout the activities. New emotional and cognitive understandings are encouraged and related social and emotional skills practiced in a series of relapse prevention activities.
Facilitator: This Living Values Education (LVE) workshop will be led by Diane Tillman, Licensed Educational Psychologist, former School Psychologist, Marriage and Family Therapist and the primary author of the award-winning Living Values Series.
Cost: While the presenters volunteer their time, there will be a $75 LVE fee for educators or a $100 fee for mental health professionals who wish to earn 12 C.E.U.s. This will include LVE materials and one of the published LVE books. The specialized resources books will be additional. For those staying at the Anubhuti Retreat Center, please plan to make a separate donation for meals and accommodation.
On-line Registration: www.anubhutiretreatcenter.org/Events/Retreats.html
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For questions about the LVE workshop: Please email or call 916 847-0481.
For more information about LVE: www.livingvalues.net
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