About Seasons of Respect Workshops

We offer seven one-hour workshops spaced throughout the school year in each class, using creative and entertaining interactive methods to involve children who directly experience:

• how it feels to respect and be respected;
• choices and consequences of actions and reactions;
• the importance of listening to others;
• techniques children can use to discourage bullying in their schools; and
• the impact of reaching outside yourself to appreciate and help others.

Seasons of Respect workshops incorporate a variety of approaches to creatively teach children:

• the difference between respectful behavior, which everyone deserves, and feeling of respect for someone, which is earned;
• the importance of positive emotions in their classrooms and behaviors they will agree to in order to support these emotions; and
• strategies for working together to avoid or resolve peer-to-peer conflict and prevent bullying. The workshop provides an on-going program where classmates practice respect and recognize each other throughout the year for their respectful behavior.

Being very aware of the limited time available in classrooms for additional activities, SOR is making certain that its activities are tied to State ELA and American School Counselor Association standards so that time spent does not detract from the goals of teachers and counselors.

Current Workshop Topics:

Workshop #1 — The Concept of Respect
Workshop #2 — Respectful Listening
Workshop #3 — Emotions in the Classroom
Workshop #4 — Emotions in the Classroom, Continued
Workshop #5 — Conflict Resolution
Workshop #6 — Bully Prevention
Workshop #7 — Labeling
Workshop #8 — Reflection and Celebration