SOCIAL INCLUSION & THE NEW RITES OF PASSAGE
Addressing Isolation,Teasing & Bullying

Seclusion, Endurance, Change and Belonging.

These are four qualities are present in all traditional initiations where a balance between freedom and responsibility is learnt. However fewer and fewer children experience these ceremonies. So where are the new rites of passage? The answer is intense human encounter? It is in our daily struggles with each other that we define ourselves and experience the four qualities of initiation. How can we 'elder' our children knowing that...peace is not the absence of conflict but the beginning of it.

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HOW PARENTS CAN RAISE A SOCIALLY RESILIENT CHILD:
Breaking the cycle of reactivity, exclsuion & escalation.

Parents can be very powerful in helping their children stay calm and centered in the face of difficult social situations at school and in the neighborhood. While schools can do a lot to work through situations of teasing, parents can be very effective in giving their children some age appropriate simple strategies to avoid being caught up in the destructive cycle of teasing and bullying.

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THE SOCIAL INCLUSION SCHOOL COMMUNITY TRAINING
How the Training and Implementation Process Works

The Social Inclusion Approach seeks to deepen and further existing socially inspired practice within the school community. As social inclusion is of community wide concern, teachers, parents and students are very actively involved in the process. The training is broken down into three distinct yet closely linked phases. Each phase usually lasts around one school year. For an overview of the process SIOverviewJan2011.pdf

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