Workshops and Seminars that cover a range of topics addressing anti-social behaviour, cause and consequences for possession of offence 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 includes a combination of videos, charts, pictures and literature. Workshops can be tailored according to the organisations availability and time.
Workshops offered
Path to Success
Choose a Knife or Choose your Life
Gangs and Street Culture
Psychological Trauma: Antisocial Behaviour & Violence
I Am Workshop
Passionate, Radical or Extreme
Crime & Consequences
Social Expressions
Where from Here?
Path to Success
Learning objectives include
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- 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)
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Choose a Knife or Choose your Life
Learning objectives include
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- 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 prespective of the affects of violent crime
- Understanding and knowing the importance of self-love
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Gangs and Street Culture
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- 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 affects 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 affects and relation of media and society
- Exploring the root of street culture, history and its affect on society and personalities
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- 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 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 media’s impact on social life
- Greater understanding the root of street culture, the history and its origin, and its affect on society and personalities.
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Psychological Trauma: Antisocial Behaviour & Violence
Learning Objective
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- 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
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I Am Workshop
Course Outline: Seven sessions
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- 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
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I Am: Project aims to:
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- 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)
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Learning objectives
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- 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 consequences 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 decision being made
- Understanding peoples reasons for mis-placed loyalty
- Understanding how 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 and effects of following the affects of behaviour
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Passionate, Radical or Extreme
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- Define radical, what is and it’s meaning
- Teach the power of words
- Show the different 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
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Learning objectives
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- Understanding what it means to radical
- Misunderstanding the content in which specific words are used
- Understand the different between religion and politics
- Acknowledging the causing factor that distort 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
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