Edie Raether – Bully Proof Your Kids: Strategies to Create a Safe Environment for the Classroom & Community

Understanding the Root Causes of Bullying, Anger and Violence

• Why Are Kids So Mean: Cause, Consequence and Correction
• Seven Types of Bullies and Prescribed Actions
• Recognizing Danger Signals of Both Primal and Cognitive Anger
• The Mean Girl Syndrome: Girls Go Viral and Get Vicious
• Violence: The “Fun” Addiction and Power Thrills

Weapons without Wisdom: The Impulsive Brain

• Brain Spurts and DNA: Why Smart Teens Make Dumb Decisions
• How Childhood Activities and Habits Hardwire Your Brain
• The Marshmallow Theory: Impulse and Instant Gratification
• Society’s Shame: Giving Children Weapons without Wisdom

Cyberbullying: The New Teen Terrorism

• The Bullying that Never Sleeps: Harassment 24/7
• Friends as Bullies: How the Internet Depersonalizes
• Words Are Forever: Body’s Heal – Minds Don’t Mend
• Nine Steps to Stop Cyberbullying
• Detecting, Reporting, Law Enforcement and Legal Rights

Implementing Systems of Prevention

• Making Diversity Work: R-E-S-P-E-C-T and LGBT Challenges
• Creating a Safe Space: School Policies, Procedures and Reporting
• Empathy Education: Campaigns for Compassion and Kindness
• Resilience: Emotional Immunity and Psychological Self Defense
• Five Steps to Overcoming Motivational Deficits
• Seven Ways to Convert Bystanders to Upstanders Who Take Action

Seven Intervention Tools that Convert Conflict into Cooperation

• Ownerships: How to Implement a Values Contract
• Peer Mediation and Conflict Management
• The Peace Circle
• Sociodrama, Role Playing and Interactive Methods
• AQ-Implementing the Action Intelligence Model
• Inspired Discipline – Integrating the 5 R’s or Respect: Responsibility – Repentance – Resolution – Restitution – Reconciliation
• Not Time Out – Time In: Rewriting Your Life’s Script