Trust Talk For Teens
Non-Defensive Communication and Responsible Decision-Making
This set of free lesson plans guides teachers, school professionals, and community groups to teach kids the skills needed to navigate their childhood and teenage years… safe and sound.
What’s Included
This interactive guide provides simulated situations that students collectively and individually resolve. The lessons are designed for easy implementation by providing scripted, carefully crafted exercises and activities.
The lesson plans contain low stakes, high impact activities to stimulate self-awareness, social awareness, psychological safety, productive group work, and relationship skills.
Students will:
Improve self-awareness, social awareness, psychological safety, productive group work, and relationship skills
Build empathy and collaboration skills while Listening on Purpose and Talking on Purpose to others
Learn to regulate their emotions and stay in a calm place when a conversation gets heated
Understand the teenage brain and how the pre-frontal cortex (executive functioning) and amygdala (impulsivity and reaction) influence their behavior
Discover how to store guns securely
Think critically about how to respond and stay safe in difficult situations involving firearms
Design a mini-project to tell targeted audiences about safe gun storage and other aspects of these lessons
This guide was created by Social Eyes, LLC and is aligned with the film “Ethan Song” by Jill Nesi of SUSO (Stand Up and Speak Out) in coordination with the CT Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity, and Opportunity (CWCSEO) and with SongStrong, the Ethan Miller Song Foundation.
This guide is available at no cost!
Kids deserve to be happy, healthy, and secure wherever they are in the world.
If your school or district is interested in learning more about using this guide, fill out the form below or contact Robin Fox at robin@social-eyes.org