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Living Values Activities for Street Children
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Living Values Activities for Children Ages 3-7* overview and order View Introduction Edition - pdf  29 pages,
257 kb Children at this age level naturally develop values-based behaviors in a values-based atmosphere. The activities include circle groups with discussion and reflection on values, but primarily offer the opportunity to enjoy and explore the values through "Quietly Being" exercises, stories, songs, games, movement, and other values activities. Activities for interpersonal social skills development, including conflict resolution, are included. Activities foster the development of peaceful, cooperative social skills, involving the children not only cognitively and socially, but also artistically. Educators can send for cassettes of songs to accompany the book. Some activities are appropriate for children two years of age.
Living Values Activities for Children Ages 8-14*
overview and order View Introduction Edition - pdf
38 pages, 344 kb A "teacher friendly" book, it contains goals and objectives, scripted daily values lessons, stories, games, and ideas for a Values Faire. Values are explained in both simple and abstract ways. Children experience values through imagining exercises, focusing exercises, and songs. Peaceful social skills and cooperative behaviors are positively developed through discussion, play, cooperative games, and applying social skills. Making values their own is nurtured through artistic activities, creative writing, and skits.
Living Values Activities for Young Adults*
overview and order View Introduction Edition - pdf
39 pages, 248 kb A wide range of issues and personal and emotional skills are broached in this program in order to involve students 15-years and older in an enjoyable but serious exploration of values in relation to the self, others, the society, and the world. Core values lessons are offered in addition to ideas for different subject areas. Click below to see the twenty goals outlined in Living Values Activities for Young Adults, and the complete list of lessons, "steps", toward achieving those.
View Goals and steps for achieving those goals
in the Living Values Activities for Young Adult Goals - pdf
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Living Values Parent Groups: A Facilitator Guide*
overview and order View Introduction Edition containing Parent Values Activities for Ages 0- through 2-year olds, Peace, and Parenting Skills. pdf
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pages, 344 kb This book offers both process and content for facilitators interested in conducting Parent Values Group with parents and caregivers to further understanding and skills important in encouraging and positively developing values in children. There are three sections. The first section describes content and activities for an introductory session, and a six-step process for the exploration of each value. In this process, parents and caregivers reflect on their own values and how they "live" and teach those values. The second section offers suggestions regarding values activities the parents can play in the group, and ideas for parents to explore at home. In the group sessions, parents play the games their children will play and learn additional methods to foster value-related social and emotional skills at home. In the third section, common parenting concerns are addressed, as are particular skills to deal with those concerns. There is a small section on the needs of children from ages 0 to 2.
LVEP Educator Training
Guideoverview and order This guide contains the variety of workshops found within LVEP Educator Trainings. Sessions include values awareness, creating a values-based atmosphere, values activities, and skills for creating such an atmosphere. LVEP's theoretical model and the rationale behind the variety of activities is presented. Sample training agendas are offered for one-, two-, and three-day educator training programs and a five-day train-the-trainer session.
These LVE materials are restricted, only made available to educators who undergo training for these particular modules as the children are at risk. As special healing activities are included, it is essential to facilitate the activities in a values-based atmosphere. LVE materials for children at risk consists of the following.
• Living Values Activities for Refugees and Children Affected by War Ages 3–7 • Living Values Activities for Refugees and Children Affected by War Ages 8–14 • Living Values Activities for Street Children Ages 3–6 • Living Values Activities for Street Children Ages 7–10 • Living Values Activities for Street Children Ages 11–14 • Living Values Activities for Drug Rehabilitation
Living Values Activities for Refugees and Children Affected by War — This supplement contains activities that give children an opportunity to begin the healing process while learning about peace, respect and love. Designed to be implemented by refugee teachers of the same culture as the children, there are forty-nine lessons for children three- to seven-years old and sixty lessons for students eight- to fourteen-years old. The lessons provide tools to begin to deal with grief while developing positive adaptive social and emotional skills. A section on camp-wide strategies offers suggestions for creating a culture of peace, conducting values education groups for parents/caregivers, cooperative games, and supporting conflict resolution monitors. Teachers continue with the regular living values activities after these lessons are completed.
Living Values Activities for Street Children (LVASC) — These materials contain adapted living values activities on peace, respect, love and cooperation and a series of stories about a street children family. The stories serve as a medium to educate about and to discuss issues related to domestic violence, death, AIDS, drug sellers, drugs, sexual abuse, physical abuse, hygiene and healthy eating. LVASC 11–14 also includes the issues of emerging sexuality, sex and labor trafficking, and a further exploration of human rights. The stories are combined with discussions, activities, and the development of positive adaptive social and emotional skills and protective social skills. 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 approach is based on Living Values Education Program's methodology. Lessons on peace and respect build self-confidence and a supportive values-based atmosphere in the group, prior to beginning drug-related lessons in which participants are asked to explore and share their journey into drugs and the consequences in their lives. The lessons include experiences to help them deal with their pain and shame, and learn the valuable life-lessons that pain can teach. Positive intrapersonal and interpersonal social skills are taught, encouraged and practiced. Participants explore many aspects of their experiences and build relapse-prevention skills through discussion, art, role-playing and dramas.
LVE
materials have been translated into many languages. The current set of six books is available in English. Translation is ongoing in
Arabic, Cambodian, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian,
Japanese, Karen, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese. Should you wish books in one of these
languages please contact an LVE Country Coordinator in the country which uses that language. (See
"Support Near You")
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Diane Tillman, a Licensed Educational Psychologist, is the primary author of the Living Values Education series of books. She coordinates content for ALIVE internationally and has conducted LVE seminars for UNESCO, Ministries of Education and educators in thirty countries in all regions of the world. Prior to becoming involved with LVE, she worked for 23 years with a public school district in Southern California . During that time, she served as a Guidance Psychologist, Special Education Psychologist, Program Specialist, and Coordinator of a Child Service Demonstration Center . |