Empathy Building Initiatives For Communities

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At Don’t Hide It, Flaunt It, our goal is to promote disability acceptance workshops for universities to help individuals celebrate their differences. At Don’t Hide It Flaunt It (DHIFI), we have a strong belief in the power of embracing differences and building environments where everyone is capable of feeling recognized, heard, and valued. Our goal is to promote acceptance, empathy, and self-confidence for individuals of diverse backgrounds through a variety of programs.

An Inclusion Program Program

We believe that social emotional learning programs for educators is truly capable of making a difference in the world. At the core of DHIFI’s work is Social Emotional Learning. SEL equips individuals – especially students – with the resources to understand and control their emotions, build strong interpersonal skills, and improve decision-making skills. SEL activities can increase awareness of the experiences of others, encourage team building and foster enhanced communication. The social skills necessary for personal success and scholastic success can be laid with these activities as they help build stronger connections. If you are curious about the power of an inclusion curriculum, we’re here to help you get started.

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In addition to social emotional learning activities, we additionally focus on a inclusion program for universities. Fostering spaces where each individual feels a sense of inclusion, no matter their gender, race, background, or abilities is the aim of our Inclusion programs. We don’t just stop at inclusion; we work to create inclusion and inclusion where each person has access to the same opportunities. Our programs benefit schools, businesses, and communities with interactive formats that address a wide range of topics.

Inclusion Activities

At DHIFI, we advocate for self acceptance activities for students for students with a broad range of programs geared toward schools, companies, and communities. Our Speaking Engagements focus on inspirational talks that break down assumptions about differences and disabilities. Participants find our interactive programs to be highly engaging, fostering self-expression, introspection, and greater empathy and inclusion. Our student programs initiate a critical dialogue, focusing on celebrating uniqueness and building an atmosphere of respect and kindness among peers. The specific needs of each audience are taken into account, the impact for all participants is lasting. Experience the difference we can make with empathy building activities kids.

Welcome Activities For Students

Founded on the idea that differences should be embraced, not hidden, DHIFI’s mission is to empower individuals to flaunt what makes them unique through welcome activities for kids. We inspire people of all ages to celebrate their differences as an important part of who they are. Through storytelling, keynote addresses, or educational workshops, our goal is to create a world where inclusion is embraced and valued. Communities where everybody feels empowered to proudly flaunt their differences can only be achieved through encouraging respect and understanding.

Social Emotional Learning Activities for Schools: A Few Examples

Are you an educator interested in ways of integrating SEL activities for students into your school curriculum? You don’t have to sacrifice too much of your class time to achieve this goal. At DHIFI, we are here to provide you with ideas to assist students in celebrating their differences. Some examples include:

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

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Key to our mission at DHIFI is our focus on anti-bullying activities for educators. A failure in understanding and acceptance of differences is a common cause of bullying. We address the core issues behind bullying and offer students methods to oppose it through interactive activities and honest discussions. The importance of empathy, respect, and kindness cannot be emphasized enough. This is the reason students are shown to identify behaviors of bullying in their communities and take a stand them. These programs raise awareness as well as build environments that are safer and more supportive for everyone by empowering students to transform into advocates for change. If you’d like to learn more about anti-bullying programs for educators, don’t hesitate to .

Get To Know You Activity Ideas For Students

Promoting a sense of inclusion and community, Project Flaunt provides acceptance activities for middle school . Encouraging individuals to embrace their differences and share their stories with others, Project Flaunt is a unique initiative. Individuals share something personal about themselves in introductory games during these activities. Through storytelling, students can explore how their viewpoints are shaped by their differences, and individual strengths are often celebrated in collaborative work. A deeper appreciation for inclusion is gained through these activities as students discover more about each other. This can happen in the classroom, at home, or within the broader community.

Inclusion Activities For Organizations

Our mission is at the forefront everything we do at DHIFI, which is using a social emotional learning program for organizations to create a more inclusive world where individuals are empowered to flaunt their differences. Through our broad range of programs, we aim to promote environments where acceptance and understanding thrive. 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.