Empathy Building Workshop For High Schools

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Discover More About a Disability Support Program for Educators

Don’t Hide It Flaunt it aims to help individuals celebrate their differences by promoting emotional support curriculum for elementary schools. At Don’t Hide It Flaunt It (DHIFI), we have a strong belief in the power of accepting uniqueness and nurturing environments where every individual can feel recognized, heard, and valued. Through our numerous programs, we strive to promote tolerance, empathy, and self-confidence for people from all walks of life.

An Inclusion Program Program

We believe that a belonging program for universities can truly make a difference in the world. At the core of DHIFI’s work is Social Emotional Learning. One of the goals of SEL is to help individuals better understand their emotions, strengthen interpersonal skills, and make informed, thoughtful decisions, with a focus on students. SEL activities offer many benefits for both individuals and teams. Some examples include better communication, better empathic understanding, and stronger team building. The social skills needed for self-growth and academic achievement can be laid with these activities as they help build stronger connections. If you are curious about the potential of inclusion and belonging activities, we’re here to help you get started.

Inclusion Activities For Organizations

We also focus on a Inclusion curriculum for summer camps in addition to social emotional learning activities. Our Inclusion programs are built to build environments where each person feels they are included, regardless of their race, gender, abilities, or background. Beyond basic inclusion, we promote inclusion and inclusion, with a goal of ensuring equal access to the same opportunities. Our programs serve schools, corporations, and communities with interactive formats that cover a wide range of topics.

Inclusion Activities

At DHIFI, we support icebreaker activities for elementary school for educators with a variety of programs tailored to schools, companies, and communities. Breaking down preconceived notions about differences and disabilities through empowering talks is the focus of our Speaking Engagements. By encouraging personal creativity through art, as well as fostering inclusion and empathy, participants experience impactful activities in our interactive programs. Focusing on celebrating uniqueness and fostering an atmosphere of kindness and respect among peers, these programs initiate a vital dialogue. To ensure a lasting impact on all who participate, each program is customized to the individual needs of the audience. Experience the difference we can make with self acceptance activity ideas classroom.

Acceptance Activities For Students

Founded on the idea that differences should be celebrated, not hidden, DHIFI’s mission is to empower individuals to embrace what makes them different through self acceptance activities for middle school. We encourage people of all ages to celebrate their differences as a crucial aspect of who they are. Whether it is through sharing stories, educational workshops or public speaking, our goal is to create a world where inclusion is celebrated and appreciated. Communities where everyone feels inspired to proudly flaunt their differences is possible through encouraging understanding and respect.

SEL Activities for Schools: Some Examples

As an educator, you may be curious about ways to integrate SEL activities for students into your school curriculum. There’s a variety of ways to do this without taking over too much of your schooldays. At Don’t Hide It, Flaunt It, we are here to give you ideas to help students celebrate their differences. These are several a few examples:

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

Emotional Support Curriculum Bullying Awareness Initiatives For Universities

Our focus on disability awareness workshops for universities is essential to our mission, as bullying frequently stems from a absence of understanding and acceptance of differences. We aim to address bullying’s core issues and ensure students are equipped with strategies to stand up against it when they encounter it daily. This is done via candid discussions and interactive programs. Providing students with the skills and awareness they need to recognize behaviors of bullying in their communities and to stand against them, we strongly emphasize kindness, respect, and empathy. These programs spread awareness as well as create safer, more supportive environments for everyone by equipping students to transform into advocates for change. If you want to learn more about disability awareness program for educators, don’t hesitate to .

Icebreaker Activities For Elementary School

Encouraging a sense of belonging and connection, Project Flaunt features SEL activities for students . Project Flaunt is an innovative initiative that encourages individuals to celebrate their differences and share their stories with others. Individuals talk about something distinct about themselves in introductory games during these activities. Through storytelling, they can discuss how their viewpoints are shaped by their differences, and individual strengths are often showcased in collaborative work. Through these activities, students not only discover more about each other, they additionally build a deeper appreciation for differences within their classroom, at home, and in the wider community.

Social Emotional Learning Activities For Communities

Our mission is at the forefront everything we do at DHIFI, which is using an inclusion curriculum for educators to build a more inclusive world where individuals are empowered to celebrate their differences. We aim to foster environments where understanding and acceptance thrive through our wide range of programs. Get in touch with us today to find out more information about our programs.

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.