Empathy-Based Activities For The Workplace

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Discover Disability Support Activities for Military Families

Don’t Hide It Flaunt it strives to help people celebrate their differences with the promotion of a belonging curriculum for organizations. Each individual ought to feel seen, heard, and valued. At Don’t Hide It Flaunt It (DHIFI), we create environments that allow for this can happen by promoting individuality. Through our variety of programs, we aim to promote tolerance, empathy, and self-confidence for people from all walks of life.

An Inclusion Program Program

We believe that inclusivity workshops for students is truly capable of making a difference in the world. At the heart of our work at DHIFI is Social Emotional Learning. SEL equips individuals, especially students, with the skills to understand and manage emotions, develop interpersonal relationships, and make responsible choices. SEL activities offer many benefits for teams and individuals alike. A few examples include better communication, better empathic understanding, and stronger team building. These activities help participants connect with themselves and others, building the essential social skills required for success, both personally and academically. If you are curious about the power of a SEL curriculum, we’re here to help you get started.

An Inclusion Program For Companies

We also focus on an inclusion curriculum for schools together with social emotional learning activities. At DHIFI, we make sure that everyone feels included, regardless of no matter what their race, gender, background, or abilities happen to be. We go beyond inclusion by fostering true inclusion and inclusion – with a goal of ensuring equal opportunities for all. Our programs benefit schools, corporations, and communities with interactive formats that address topics across a wide range.

A Inclusion Curriculum

With a wide array of programs designed for companies, schools, and communities, we foster get to know you activities for families at DHIFI. Confronting assumptions about differences and disabilities through empowering talks is what our Speaking Engagements focus on. Participants experience our interactive programs to be highly engaging, encouraging introspection, self-expression, and greater empathy and inclusion. The crucial dialogue initiated by our student programs embraces uniqueness and, over time, creates an atmosphere of kindness and mutual respect among peers. The unique needs of each audience are considered, the impact for all participants is lasting. Experience the difference we can make with SEL activity ideas elementary school.

Social Emotional Activities For Students

Inspiring individuals to totally embrace what makes them different through get to know you activity ideas classroom has been our mission at DHIFI from the very beginning, as we believe that differences should not be concealed; they need to be flaunted. Encouraging people of all ages to celebrate their differences as a key part of who they are is central to our mission. Our goal is to build a world where inclusion is appreciated and embraced, whether that is through sharing stories, public speaking, or educational workshops. Understanding and respect are crucial for communities that encourage their members to celebrate their differences with pride.

Examples of SEL Activities for Educators

Are you an educator interested in ways of integrating SEL activities for educators into your school curriculum? You don’t have to give up too much of your class time to achieve this goal. At DHIFI, we are here to give you ideas to help students celebrate their differences. These are simply a few examples:

  • Journal entries
  • Sharing stories
  • Arts and crafts
  • Sharing quotes
  • Show-and-tell
  • Coping strategies
  • Positive affirmations

Anti-Bullying Activities Anti-Bullying Initiatives For Military Families

Central to our mission at DHIFI is our commitment on bullying prevention training for schools. A failure in understanding and acceptance of differences is what often leads to bullying. Through interactive activities and open discussions, we tackle the root causes of bullying and ensure students are equipped with tools to stand up against it. Giving students the skills and knowledge needed to spot behaviors of bullying in their communities and to fight back against them, we strongly emphasize kindness, respect, and empathy. These programs raise awareness as well as build environments that are safer and more supportive for all by equipping students to transform into advocates for change. If you’d like to learn more about bullying awareness training for organizations, don’t hesitate to .

Get To Know You Activities For Kids

Encouraging a sense of inclusion and connection, Project Flaunt provides get to know you activities for kids . Project Flaunt is a unique initiative that inspires individuals to embrace their differences and tell their stories to others. Narrative sharing where students talk about how their differences affect their perspectives, collaborative efforts that emphasize individual strengths, and introductory exercises where students reveal something special about themselves are examples of these activities. Through these activities, students don’t just discover more about one another, they also build a deeper appreciation for inclusion within their classroom, at home, and in the wider community.

Inclusion Program For Summer Camps

Empowering individuals to celebrate their differences and create a world that’s more inclusive through an inclusion and belonging program for educators is our focused mission at DHIFI, in all we do. We strive to foster environments where understanding and acceptance thrive through our wide range of programs. For more information on our programs, visit us today.

Our Programs

Our social emotional learning (SEL) and empathy-building programs are designed to build acceptance and empathy and create cultures of inclusion for schools, communities, companies, and beyond.
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School Programs

This program is designed to help kids and teens build self-confidence, empathy and healthy relationship skills.

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Community Programs

We work with community organizations, summer camps, faith-based organizations, and other non-profits.

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Corporate Programs

DHIFI offers customized presentations and programming for companies of all sizes to build inclusivity and understanding in the workplace.

Testimonials

During our 2019 annual President’s Council of Cornell Women (PCCW) Symposium, Meg gave an impressionable presentation titled “What You Think of Me is None of My Business: Embracing Your Superpower” which embodied our theme of PCCW Celebrates One Cornell: Diversity and Inclusion.” Not only was Meg’s presentation insightful, thoughtful and impactful, but she captivated the audience. Sharing stories about those who go through life with visible and invisible differences made us aware that we all face difficulties and challenges in many ways, but together, through education and awareness, we can be compassionate, loving and caring to everyone, no matter the trials and tribulations ahead.

Carole Quealy

Cornell University, Alumni Affairs & Development

When the U.S. Embassy in Israel hosted Meg Zucker as a Distinguished American Speaker in 2015, the audiences she spoke and met with were deeply inspired by her personal story, her effective advocacy, and the early success of Don’t Hide It, Flaunt It.  Her appearance made a huge impact with advocates for inclusion and acceptance which still resonates today with those who met her.

Daniel Shapiro

former U.S. Ambassador to Israel

Meg is an energetic and engaging speaker who inspires all who meet her with her life story of growing up with a blatant physical difference and parenting kids who share her difference.   Her message of “the things that make me different make me, me” is heartfelt and impactful and resonates with audiences of all ages and backgrounds.  Meg’s mission of building acceptance, tolerance, and empathy is more important now than ever before.  Everyone who has the pleasure of hearing Meg’s story and her vision will be better for it.

Mindy Scheier

Founder and CEO, Runway of Dreams Foundation

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CASEL Competencies
 
  • Self-awareness: Assessing
 one’s own strengths […] and possessing confidence and growth mind-set
  • Social awareness: Taking the perspective of and empathizing with others from diverse backgrounds and cultures
  • Relationship skills: Establishing healthy and rewarding relationships with diverse individuals.