The LVE Association in Brazil will participate in the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. They will host a booth on Living Green Values at the NGO forum. They are currently preparing special activities for the wellbeing of our planet.

Contact: brazil@livingvalues.net

European ALIVE Conference – Working and sharing values together 28 – 31 July 2012 – Cyprus

Cyprus, the Island of Venus, an ancient land that vibrates with history, tradition, and civilisation, a place of old rivalries and new hopes for peace, a country with a dynamic presence in the modern world – an ideal place for the summer European Conference of ALIVE, the Association for Living Values Education International.  

The conference will be held in Limassol, at Hotel Kanika. Join us for a three-day meeting full of meaning, exploration of values, ideas and educational practices in a frame of genuine communication.  The theme of the conference: Working and sharing values together.

For further information, kindly click here. 

There will be a 12-session LVE training for first through third grade teachers of a primary school in Givat Shmuel. The name of the training is "The Power to Blossom", a continuation of training done with the kindergarten of the same municipality. This is occurring as a request from parents to maintain continuity with the results gained by their children with LVE in kindergarten.

For further information, please contact israel@livingvalues.net.

Living Values Education Workshop
for teachers, counselors, drug counselors, social workers and psychologists

July 6 – 8, 2012
6:00 p.m. Friday evening through 4:00 p.m. Sunday

Monday July 9, 2010
9 AM – 3:30 PM
This optional extra day is required for educators and LVE Facilitators
IF they wish to use LVE’s at-risk materials

Peace Village Learning and Retreat Center
Haines Falls, New York

Join us for an inspiring, paradigm-changing workshop at the Peace Village Learning and Retreat Center. This Living Values Education (LVE) workshop will be led by Diane Tillman, Licensed Educational Psychologist, former school psychologist, Marriage and Family Therapist and the primary author of the award-winning Living Values Series.

About LVE
Living Values Education is a comprehensive values education program. This innovative global program, being implemented in more than 60 countries, offers training, a practical methodology and a wide variety of experiential values activities to educators to help them provide the opportunity for children and young adults to explore and develop universal values. 

The regular curriculum provides activities for toddlers through university students with values units on peace, respect, love, cooperation, happiness, honesty, humility, responsibility, simplicity, tolerance, freedom and unity, and a parent-group facilitator guide for parents. In this course we will also provide the opportunity to explore separate educational resources for at-risk youth ages 14 and above and young people in need drug rehabilitation.

This workshop is open to:

• educators in public and private schools who wish to use the regular LVE resources; and
• counselors, drug counselors, social workers and psychologists who wish to use Living Values Activities for At-Risk Youth or Living Values Activities for Drug Rehabilitation resources.
• An optional extra day will be provided for educators who would like to have access to the Living Values Activities for At-Risk Youth resource. (Monday, July 9)

Learning Outcomes for Educators
This professional development workshop is highly recommended for educators who wish to optimally help young people explore and develop values through LVE.       Educators will:

• reflect on the role values play in their life and in the world;
• learn about the LVE Approach and the process of developing values;
• practice acknowledgement and active listening skills that will allow them to deal with student resistance more easily and effectively;
• learn about non-violent discipline methods that help all students feel safe and respected in the classroom;
• experience and have access to relaxation/focusing exercises that help young people be more centered and better able to self-regulate;
• have more than one hundred activities to help students develop 12 universal values and positive intrapersonal and interpersonal social and emotional skills including listening to each other, conflict resolution, cooperative communication, and assertive benevolence;
• understand how values education can strengthen a student’s motivation to make positive social choices;
• learn how to facilitate a program that teaches empathy, drastically reduces bullying and has students spontaneously resolving issues with the language of values within months.

Learning Outcomes for Mental Health Practitioners
Counselors, social workers and psychologists will be able to have access to specialized Living Values Education drug rehab and at-risk youth resources after this course for use in their practice. 
Clinicians will:

• Understand and be able to describe factors that contribute to creating a values-based atmosphere in which young people feel safe;
• Utilize methods to create a values-based atmosphere to increase the openness of youth to therapeutic intervention and improve the client’s resiliency;
• Be able to evaluate clinical interventions in relation to LVE’s Theoretical Model and adapt methods accordingly (and help caregivers adapt their methods) so that each intervention helps young people move toward their potential;
• Create and/or evaluate a behavior plan for troubled youth in accordance with the critical components of LVE’s Theoretical Model in order to increase efficacy;
• Be able to use relaxation/focusing exercises to help youth improve their ability to self-regulate and deal with their feelings of pain and trauma;
• Select activities for clients to put them in touch with the values that are most important to them and their life;
• Add to their repertoire of activities to help at-risk youth increase their intrapersonal skills and interpersonal skills, including empowering self-talk, benevolent assertion and dealing with violence;
• Understand how to move initial learning of skills to a higher commitment level of values so that at-risk youth are more likely to utilize positive social and emotional skills and be able to utilize methods to do so; and
• Have available relapse prevention activities for groups of youth.

LVE Resources
The Living Values series of five books, published by Health Communications, Inc., was awarded the 2002 Teachers’ Choice Award, an award sponsored by Learning magazine, a national publication for teachers and educators in the USA.  The last two books noted are of restricted access. They are made available only to educators, counselors, social workers, therapists and psychologists who undergo training for these particular modules.

• Living Values Activities for Children Ages 3–7
• Living Values Activities for Children Ages 8–14
• Living Values Activities for Young Adults
• LVEP Educator Training Guide
• Living Values Parent Groups: A Facilitator Guide
• Living Values Activities for Drug Rehabilitation
• Living Values Activities for At-Risk Youth

In this training, there will be focus on LVE in general and the two at-risk books noted below (for those who wish to use those materials).

Living Values Activities for Drug Rehabilitation —  The 102 lessons in this curriculum weave in values activities on peace, respect, love, cooperation, honesty, humility and happiness from Living Values Activities for Young Adults, with lessons related to drug use, emotional issues that arise with addiction and its concomitant behaviors, and the building of social and relapse-prevention skills. This valuable resource can be used as part of a systematic program with the lessons done in sequence.  It can be used with the AA program.

Living Values Activities for At-Risk Youth — The 92 lessons in this curriculum weave in values activities on peace, respect, love, cooperation, honesty, humility and happiness, with lessons related to positive choices, goals, violence, drug use, gang involvement, negative influences and concomitant emotional issues, along with the building of positive social and emotional skills. Participants are told a series of stories to engage them in a process of healing and to learn about a culture of peace and respect. 

The approach in both books is based on Living Values Education’s methodology. Facilitators will help young people to explore and develop values in a group-facilitated process by first exploring their own dreams for a better world. Lessons on peace and respect build self-confidence and a supportive values-based atmosphere in the group, prior to beginning choice-related lessons in which participants are asked to explore and share their journey and explore consequences.  The young people are invited to explore many aspects of their experience and build skills through discussion, art, role-playing and skits/dramas. Relaxation/focusing exercise are designed to help them deal with their anger and pain and learn to self-regulate more effectively. Positive intrapersonal and interpersonal social and emotional skills are taught throughout the activities. New emotional and cognitive understandings are encouraged and related social and emotional skills practiced in a series of relapse prevention activities. 

Cost:  While the presenters volunteer their time, there will be a charge of $100 to help cover LVE expenses. This will include one of the published LVE books.  The specialized resources materials will be additional.  For those staying at Peace Village, please plan to make a donation for meals and accommodation to the retreat center.

Registration:  On-line registration is available at http://www.livingvalueseducation.org/register-workshop; or email registration@peace-village.org.

For questions or more information:  You are welcome to email Mary Alice Quinn at maryalicequinn@live.com

There will be an LVE Workshop/parent group for parents on ten Saturday mornings from late October through mid-February. This will take place from 9:00 to 12:00 with 30 participants from Nguyen Binh Khiem School in the Cau Giay District. Six teachers will also attend from the same school in order to observe the process.  It is our hope that with further training that some of the teachers will become LVE parent group facilitators.

For further information, please email hanoi@livingvalues.net.