Collaborative techniques for role assignment, active listening, and joint problem-solving. Addresses group dynamics, consensus-building strategies, and individual accountability within a team framework.
A graduate-level training sequence on facilitating peer support systems to mitigate stress and anxiety. Students learn the science of social support, micro-skills for active listening, boundary setting to prevent burnout, and group facilitation techniques to create sustainable communities of care.
A comprehensive sequence for undergraduate students exploring the social psychology of stress and the practical skills needed to build resilient peer support networks. Students move from theoretical understanding to practical facilitation and community planning.
A Pre-K sequence focused on moving from individual joy to shared happiness through social connection, invitations, collaboration, and celebration. Students learn how community and play amplify positive emotions and build resilience.
A sequence for Pre-K students focused on building emotional resilience through predictable, positive daily routines. Students explore greetings, reframing chores, managing transitions, finding peace in quiet time, and practicing daily gratitude.
A Kindergarten sequence focused on shared positive experiences to boost mood and build social connections through invitations, cooperation, laughter, altruism, and gratitude.
A therapeutic and self-discovery sequence for 2nd graders to identify personal sources of joy. Students explore the physical sensations of happiness, categorize their interests, and create a personalized 'Joy Menu' to use as a coping strategy for emotional regulation.
A 5-lesson sequence for Kindergarten students focusing on cognitive flexibility. Students learn to transition from rigid thinking ('Rock Brain') to flexible thinking ('Rubber Band Brain') through structured play, creative problem-solving, and social role-playing.
A 2nd-grade sequence on digital literacy focusing on file naming, folder organization, search retrieval, cloud storage, and digital collaboration. Students learn to maintain a clean digital workspace through a 'Cyber Space Station' theme.
This sequence empowers 2nd-grade students with self-advocacy skills to navigate obstacles. It moves from recognizing when help is needed to choosing the right helper and using specific, actionable language or non-verbal signals.
A 5-lesson sequence for 3rd-grade students focused on cognitive flexibility and independent problem-solving for classroom obstacles. Students move from understanding 'flexible thinking' to using a toolkit of strategies for material issues, forgotten instructions, and unexpected changes.
A project-based sequence where 4th graders act as event planners, mastering cloud storage, spreadsheets, document design, and presentation tools to organize a class celebration.
This sequence trains 9th-grade students in bystander intervention techniques and active allyship within a workplace context. Students explore the psychological barriers to action (the bystander effect) and master the '4 Ds'—Direct, Distract, Delegate, and Delay—to safely interrupt harassment and support colleagues.
A culminating event where students plan and execute a simple shared activity (like a dance party or snack share). They reflect on how doing things together feels different than doing them alone.
Students present their Joy Menus to small groups, allowing peers to borrow ideas to add to their own lists. The lesson concludes with a commitment to try one menu item over the weekend.
Students learn to identify when a friend does something good and how to celebrate them (clapping, cheering). This shifts focus from self-gratification to finding joy in others' success.
Students design and pitch a sustainable community care initiative tailored to their specific academic or professional cohort.
Develops skills for leading group stress check-ins, managing dynamics, and ensuring psychological safety in group settings.
Focuses on preventing compassion fatigue through emotional and temporal boundaries and professional referral protocols.
Practical workshop on active listening, validation, and holding space for peers without the pressure to provide immediate solutions.
Examines the buffering hypothesis and the psychological mechanics of how social connection mitigates stress, contrasting co-rumination with constructive disclosure.
Small groups work together to build something (block tower, art piece). The focus is on the positive feeling of achieving a goal together rather than the final product.
Using their investigations, students create a visual 'menu' or choice board of their top 5 reliable mood-boosting activities. They illustrate these options to serve as a reference tool.
Students design a framework for a community care plan, producing a 'Community Charter' for peer support in a specific campus context.
A facilitated dialogue session focusing on common undergraduate stressors, practicing normalization and collective coping strategies.
An assessment rubric for the final Community Charter project, evaluating theory application, safety planning, and sustainability.
Final project rubric for evaluating the Community Care Initiative, focusing on rationale, boundaries, referral pathways, and sustainability.
Student design workbook for planning the Community Care initiative, covering problem definition, logistics, safety boundaries, and sustainability.
A design framework for a community care plan, producing a 'Community Charter' for peer support in a specific campus context.
Final project brief for the Community Care initiative, detailing requirements, core components, and the "Department Pitch" assessment.
Visual slide deck for Lesson 5, introducing the concepts of mutual aid, sustainable networks, and the "Community Charter" project.
Observation and feedback tool for students to use while observing peer-led group facilitation simulations, focusing on psychological safety and dynamic management.
A brainstorming worksheet for identifying collective coping strategies for common undergraduate stressors.
Practical script for students to lead a brief check-in circle, featuring opening ground rules, modeling prompts, and intervention strategies.
A sorting activity where students categorize shared stressors from an anonymous "drop box" into personal or systemic categories to facilitate normalization.
Facilitation Fundamentals Slides focusing on group dynamics, psychological safety, and managing difficult participants.
Visual slide deck for Lesson 4, introducing group facilitation skills, the power of normalization, and the distinction between individual and systemic stressors.
