Workshops and Seminars that cover a range of topics addressing anti-social behaviour, cause and consequences for possession of offensive weapons and violent crime, to confidence building, self-reflection and life choices. All presentations fit into the category of prevention and intervention material. Stephen’s PowerPoint presentations are very interactive and include’s a combination of videos, charts, pictures and literature. Workshops can be tailored according to the organisation’s availability and time.
Workshops offered
Path to Success
Choose a Knife or Choose your Life
Gangs and Street Culture
Bullying and Online Safety
Psychological Trauma: Antisocial Behaviour & Violence
Who Am I?
Passionate, Radical or Extreme
Crime & Consequences
Social Expressions
Where from Here?
Critical Thinking and Media Literacy
Physical & Mental Wellbeing
Finding Your Passion
Attributes of A Strong Leader
Path to Success
Learning objectives include
- The definition of success and what it means to be successful
- Understanding the difference between success and achievements
- Understanding the difference between determination and lack of determination
- Understanding the difference between failure and success
- Understanding the consequences of wrong choices.
- Knowing the difference between ill gain and hard work
- Identifying the importance of hard work
- Understanding the power of change (mentally and physically)
Choose a Knife or Choose your Life
Learning objectives include
- Understanding the emotions and psyche of the mind of individuals prone to carry knives
- Relating trauma to violent behaviour
- Understanding the impact of miseducation and social conduct
- Identifying what’s wrong from right, control and lack of control
- Understanding the joint enterprise law
- Greater understanding and broad perspective of the effects of violent crime
- Understanding and knowing the importance of self-love
Gangs and Street Culture
Aim
- Defining the word and concept of Gang/s
- Highlight and analyse the main factors that create and produce anti-social behaviour and violent crime
- Explain the connection between/how environment effects personalities/characteristics
- Explore label and stigmatisation and how it affects and feeds society for centuries
- Explain the school to prison to pipeline theory and model
- Explore the effects and relation of media and society
- Exploring the root of street culture, history and its effect on society and personalities
Objectives
- Understanding the meaning and association of the word and the various ways it can be used
- Greater understanding of the root cause of problems that produce anti-social behaviour and violent crime
- Identifying how the environment affects personalities/characteristics
- Understanding what label and stigmatisation is
- Understanding the school to prison pipeline and model and its relation to the UK
- Understanding the media’s impact on social life
- Greater understanding of the root of street culture, history, and its origin, and its effect on society and personalities.
Bullying and Online Safety
Learning Objective
- Understand the meaning of bullying
- Acknowledging what are the different methods of bullying
- Understanding the different forms of bullying
- Understanding how bullying can cause trauma
- Understanding the devastating effects bullying can have and the various overcomes
- Online safety with regards to potential child grooming (via dating apps and social media etc) including “catfishing”
Psychological Trauma: Antisocial Behaviour & Violence
Learning Objective
- Understanding what psychological trauma is?
- Learn how childhood trauma can still affect an individual even in adulthood
- Understanding the link between trauma, PTSD and anti-social behaviour
- Recognise experiences that can cause psychological trauma
- Understand the defining patterns and effects of trauma
- Understanding the key factors responsible for the increased trauma and PTSD within society
- Increase awareness of street life and the connection to traumatic experiences
- Family breakdown, poverty, lack of and miseducation feeds undiagnosed trauma.
- Recognise reactive trauma and understand how to deal with it
- Understanding the fundamental steps necessary to address PSTD
Who Am I?
Learning Objective
- Understand how and why greatness arises from within and the importance of believing in self
- Understand life is about choices and the outcome of any situation is always on oneself
- Importance of learning from every situation
- Importance of loving self always
- Believe and trust that we are all here for a purpose
Crime and Consequences
Learning Objective
- Understand there is no quick road to true achievements
- Understand the consequences of poor choices and companionship
- Deeper insight too life behind the prison walls and expelling the myths and misconceptions
- Make aware the psychologically affect prison has on many youths and remove the misconception that prison life is easy
- Understand that anything can be achieved once the mind is switched on
- Understand the difference between success and failure
Social Expressions
Learning Objective
- Understanding the meaning of social expressions and it’s relation to society
- Deeper understanding too how positive energy and self-belief can change your life
- Understanding the 3V rule and its effect on others
- Understanding the concept that success and failure are only choices
- To always believe in self
Physical and Mental Wellbeing
Learning Objective
- Understanding the importance of healthy nutrition
- Understanding the effects of fast food and how it links to depression
- Understanding how food intake can affect moods.
- Good understanding of different drugs, why people take them and the effects
- Insight into alcohol and drug abuse
- Understand how healthy eating is good for the mind and body.
- Importance of exercise, the physiological and emotional benefits
Critical Thinking and Media Literacy
Learning Objective
- Understanding the skills needed to “think critically” including observation, analysis, interpretation, reflection, evaluation, inference, explanation, problem-solving, and decision making.
- Understanding the importance of meta-thinking and its relation to critical thinking
- This relates to young people being able to:
- Determine the importance and relevance of arguments and ideas,
- Recognise, build and appraise arguments
- Identify inconsistencies and errors in reasoning
- The ability to analyse and evaluate media articles including instances of “fake news” and disinformation.
- Algorithm used to manipulate peoples way of thinking
Where From Here?
Learning Objective
- Deeper understanding of the importance of taking responsibility for one’s actions
- To understand what personal development truly means
- Importance of understanding one’s strengths and weaknesses
- Understanding the importance of believing in self and the power of the mind
Finding Your Passion
Learning Objective
- Understanding the word passion and its relation to our lives
- Understanding passion is energy and a driving force
- Importance of finding one’s passion and knowing what you enjoy
- Understanding that passion and self-reflection are powerful together
- Coming to the realisation that passion is a priceless gift
Attributes of A Strong Leader
Learning Objective
- Understanding the true meaning of a leader and what it takes to be a leader
- The Importance self-belief
- Deeper understanding of how one’s actions have an effect on others
- Understanding how one perception can shape lives
- Understanding the importance of self-control and self-respect
- Understanding that kindness, consideration and respect are weaknesses but strengths
Passionate, Radical or Extreme
Aim
- Define radical, what is and it’s meaning
- Teach the power of words
- Show the difference between religion and politics
- Highlight the factors that distort religion
- Show the connection between the Abrahamic Faiths i.e. Judaism, Christianity and Islam
- Insight into the various ways people are radicalised
- Highlight scriptural misinformation
- Show the scriptural relations between faiths
Learning objectives
- Understanding what it means to radical
- Misunderstanding the content in which specific words are used
- Understand the difference between religion and politics
- Acknowledging the causing factor that distorts religion
- Understand the connection between the Abrahamic Faiths i.e. Judaism, Christianity and Islam
- Understand the various ways used to radicalise people
- Understanding the dangers of misinformation
I Am Workshop
Course Outline: Seven sessions
- session 1: Intro
- session 2: Screening of animated Cartoon
- session 3: Weapon of Choices
- session 4: Life Choices
- session 5: Positive & Negative Relationships
- session 6: Environmental influences
- session 7: Pathway for Change
I Am: Project aims to:
- Reduce involvement in gangs/guns and knifes
- Increase awareness of self and responsibility
- Improve lives, decision making and opportunities
- Increase engagement and social interaction
- Visual understanding through practical role play
- Discussion and debate with the intention of understanding the seriousness of Knife & Gun crime in today’s society and the detrimental effects it has not only on the youths but loved ones also.
- Increase awareness and the understanding of the dangers of violent crime
- Understand cause and effect (consequence of action)
- Understand systemic influences (e.g. music, media, and the film industry)
Learning objectives
- Learn why consequences are not always considered during the act of violence
- Key trigger motives for possession of a weapon and what the outcome options will be
- Being able to distinguish what you have control of and what is outside of your control
- Identify the risks and consequence’s choices.
- Identify the realisation and the effects of different personalities in relationships and life.
- To understand what it is to be respected appreciated and admired
- Recognise the insecurities that may lead to wrong decisions being made
- Understanding peoples reasons for misplaced loyalty
- Understanding how the lack of normal interaction can lead to young people not being able to have normal life interaction to discuss their thoughts
- Recognise the influence of the media and the psychological processing of information
- Family breakdown, poverty lack of and miseducation. General well being
- Understanding the barriers that may be in place when people try and change their lifestyle choices
- Being able to recognise where there is reactive trauma and understanding how childhood trauma might affect how young people develop
- Understanding the bigger picture and pitfalls. Implementing change through lessons learnt