A FACILITATOR’S GUIDE
“Our struggle is not easy… The truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice oneself for others in the nonviolent struggle for justice.” —Cesar Chavez
YOUNG MEN’S WORK: STOPPING VIOLENCE AND BUILDING COMMUNITY Read more...
Objectives
Young men will be able to:
acknowledge the diversity of families in the world
describe qualities of both caring and unsupportive families
describe the kind of family they want to create
identify the positive and negative pressures to have Read more...
WHY DO YOUNG PEOPLE do poorly in school? Why do young people use drugs, or hang out on street corners, or get pregnant? A common answer to these questions is that many teens have low self-esteem, generally defined as a Read more...
IT IS IMPORTANT TO BEGIN ANY DISCUSSION OF DIVERSITY by thinking about how we got to this point where diversity is an issue.
After all, we have always been a diverse country. For hundreds of years we have been a Read more...
By Paul Kivel, originally published on GuidanceChannel.org (which has since changed to Guidance-Group.com)
IN THE LAST 20 YEARS there has been an explosion of interest in conflict resolution programs for young people. There are now many regional and national Read more...
“Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice.”
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
Introduction
Violence is a powerful and evocative concept in American life. We may all agree that some things people do to one another, like Read more...
I LOVED PLAYING WITH ARIEL when he was a baby. He cradled in my arm like my body was meant to hold him. I could carry him easily, close to me, on my stomach in a snuggli, on my back Read more...
Sometimes we may not take seriously what our sons are learning and doing, telling ourselves that “boys will be boys.” At other times we may take what they do too seriously and tell them to “Grow up and act like Read more...
This article by Paul Kivel was first published in Tikkun Magazine. You can download a PDF in the original magazine layout here.
ACT LIKE A MAN! GROW UP! BE A MAN! What are the messages that Jewish Read more...
WE HAVE A VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM in this country. No, it’s not welfare mothers, it’s not recent immigrants, it’s not African-American or Latino men, it’s not Arab terrorists—it is young white men.
Nearly 70% of the devastating violence we experience Read more...