Peace Games sees working in a group, communication, understanding others’ perspectives, responsibility for oneself, the ability to be reflective, and reading emotions as important components of social and emotional intelligence.
Rebirth of the Peace Games program
In the fall of 2015, Peace Games reevaluated its program and developed a new curriculum that fosters more meaningful learning opportunities and experiences for children. The new curriculum better reflects Peace Games’ goals and hopes for the program and better aligns with a variety of resources on peace education. According to Peace First, a national nonprofit organization that works to teach peacemaking skills, peacemaking begins with “learning the essential social and emotional skills of empathy, personal awareness, relationship building, and promoting inclusion—and goes beyond that to engage young people in seeing themselves as effective communicators and leaders.” The Peace First perspective, paired with a resource guide called Circle Forward by Carolyn Boyes-Watson, which concentrates on building restorative school communities, were two influential elements in the development of the new Peace Games curriculum.
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