Real
"adults" help U.S., Middle East youth
engage successfully
Monday, 05 April 2010
"Communication
works for those who work at it"
-- John Powell
Act as if you were
separate from nothing, and no one,
and you will heal
your world tomorrow.
Understand that it
is about power with, not power over.
-- Neale Donald Walsch
from Conversations with God - Book 3
Many boys and girls live with a poverty of adults to help them through
fires of growing up.
In times of conflict, guidance from elders often fans
in students the flames of "power over" or against.
Too, some exceptional adults inspire them and us,
modeling how to help young people live and engage successfully.
An adult
for youth
George Anthony -- one teacher, one person -- is different and exemplary
for adults everywhere.
The 2007 Educator of the Year instructs at Susan E.
Wagner High School, Staten Island, NY, from where he graduated in
1977.
Anthony has an ongoing program for at-risk youth
deeply interested in working with him, beginning with deep personal engagement
with one another.
He passes on his skills and best-practices to
other educators, students, administrators, and community organizations.
PEACE
DYNAMICS
George Anthony ( GeorgeAnthony4@aol.com ) is one citizen, one adult who moves
students and schools toward a culture of dignity that embraces community and
cooperation.
He clarifies exactly the best response to campus
and international violence -- face-to-face engagement -- the beginning of the
end of war anywhere.
Students
connecting with students
is
best way to promote tolerance
by George S. Anthony
http://www.peacedynamics.com/Editorialonflictesolution.pdf
Young adults
for youth
SUSTAINED DIALOGUE CAMPUS NETWORK (SDCN) helps students on university
campuses to begin and perpetuate intentional relationship building to bridge
across old lines of identity -- race, class, nationality, sexuality.
Student-driven campus groups are mentored by
experienced young adults of the SDCN offices in Washington, DC.
SUSTAINED
DIALOGUE CAMPUS NETWORK
http://www.sdcampusnetwork.org/
Last weekend, over 150 students, administrators and alumni from 13 schools
gathered on the Princeton University campus for a SDCN Summit celebrating
the movement's 10th anniversary.
They shared communication techniques and
leadership strategies from their decade of campus experiences, ready to fuel
more, better student engagement worldwide.
Sustained
Dialogue marks decade
The Princetonian
(Princeton Univ) -- Monday, March 29th, 2010
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2010/03/29/25639/
YOU CAN HELP SDCN from your computer
today, writes youth mentor Chris Wagner ( Christopher@sdcampusnetwork.org )
from Washington.
SDCN is competing in the Pepsi Challenge.
Supporters of this type of community-building
campus activity can visit http://www.refresheverything.com/sdcampusnetwork
to repeatedly vote for SDCN each day throughout April.
GO to http://www.refresheverything.com/sdcampusnetwork
CLICK
on "VOTE FOR THIS IDEA"
Youth
for youth
Giving voice to young students of excellence, in Cleveland, Ohio, adults of the
Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage invited
boys and girls to their 2010 essay contest -- STOP THE HATE.
They attracted 1,800 young entrants eager to be
heard.
Awarded 2nd place, 11th grader Amnon
Carmi, Beachwood High, stood up for respecting Palestinians and Jews equally,
as did Tamar Kodish, a senior at Shaker Heights High.
READ these winning 500-word essays of
today's youth who choose to act -- to "do the right thing" to
dignify others and themselves.
STOP
THE HATE: Youth Speak Out
http://stopthehate.maltzmuseum.org/
Adults
for Middle East youth
= = 1 = =
The SEEDS OF PEACE Delegation Leaders Program -- http://www.seedsofpeace.org/adultdelsummer
-- harbors little recognized, generous adults in the Middle East public peace
process.
Every summer about 20 courageous educators from
Jordan, Palestine, Israel, and Egypt travel all the way from their home
countries to the Maine rural campsite to help youth reduce distances between
them and build a bridge to the other side.
This exemplary handful of women and men deepen themselves to
be the leaders, the needed "adults" for the 300 Middle East and other
global youth who gather at the Seeds of Peace Camp to themselves consider being
leaders for guiding the world into relationship and beyond war.
The Delegation Leaders Program is overseen by Daniel
Moses ( Daniel@seedsofpeace.org ).
VIEW VIDEO and LEARN MORE:
Seeds
of Peace " Delegation Leaders Program"
http://www.seedsofpeace.org/programs/mideast/deleg_leaders
Seeds of Peace "Teacher's Guides" (valuable
resources for facilitating youth engagement)
http://www.seedsofpeace.org/getinvolved/educate/teach
= = 2 = =
Adult Jewish and Palestinian organizers bravely and skillfully
facilitated a life-changing gathering for Israeli, Palestinian, and Jordanian
youth brought across borders to live together in the Negev Desert.
See PHOTOS and inspiring YOUTH RESPONSES:
The
story of young Leaders who meet despite the walls of fear
Leadership Training Seminar
for Young Leaders
IsraelPalestineJordan -- March 17-21
2010
http://www.sulha.com/UserFiles/File/Leadership%20seminar%20March%2020101.pdf
= = 3 = =
Ms. Melisse Lewine-Boskovitch
( MLB.lychee@gmail.com ) continues parenting Palestinian and Jewish young teens
to successfully meet, eat, and create in the Holy Land today.
PEACE CHILD ISRAEL -- http://www.mideastweb.org/peacechild/
-- and Melissa bring leaders-in-training into a safe space to co-create
theatrical productions that give meaning to the challenges of their own lives
and creation of a cooperative future that benefits everyone.
Jews
and Palestinians
Creating
Pochantas in the Holy Land
6-minute video -- 28 March
2010
http://www.youtube.com/user/FilmsPeaceChild#p/u/0/iAqLjSkSIoM
Teens from Tira (Palestinian) and Kfar
Saba (Jewish) met the challenges of last-minute changes and drop-out to make
their leadership skills, talent and commitment felt by everyone at the
March 22, 2010 three opening performances to begin their season.
"Dont be fooled,"
says Melisse.
"This wasn't a picnic.
"They are heroes."
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These and hundreds of other success stories are preserved at http://traubman.igc.org/messages.htm