This book contains activities that act as catalyst for discussions. Some of the topics include expressing emotions, learning names, effects of rumors, gender issues, trust, honor, following directions, creative thinking, frustration, and communication.

A wide range of activities put together by teachers to help teachers focus on specific skills, including listening, following directions, communication, problem-solving, interacting, using teamwork, practicing diversity, and so much more! The activities are fun and easy to understand. Sample questions provide a basis for discussion, and variations help teachers adjust skill levels.

Describes how to create an effective learning environment in which students share common interests and goals.

"A must for educators, counselors and trainers who enjoy and understand the benefits of adventure-based activities. This is a book of initiative activities and problem-solving elements that you can create and use to start your own portable experiential challenge program or enhance the program you already have. All of the ideas here are presented with a tight budget in mind. The purpose is to provide a way for human services providers to afford the benefits challenge programming can offer" -- Cover.

When Hate Happens ... has been written to appeal to a broad, imtelligent, thoughtful, and open-minded readership. While it is grounded in well-documented psychological and sociological research, the use of professional jargon is avoided, in-so-far-as-possible, and the book is written in an informal style that relies on common sense and down-to-earth sociology. What numbers and statistics are used by the author in discussing his own original research findings on manifest hate and its reciprocal negative impacts on society are presented in common sense and non-mathematical terms, so that a lack of mathematical and statistical sophistication should not be an obstacle to understanding. A major stated goal is to encourage, energize, mobilize, and give further direction to those who are already committed to respecting diversity, teaching tolerance, and fighting hate. The concluding chapter identifies several strategies that readers can adopt to attain their shared progressive objectives. Disrespect of diversity, intolerance, and engaging in or indifference to manifest hate, along with currently obscene levels of economic inequality, are among our most immediate and important national issues, and what we choose to do or not to do about them will ultimately determine the fate and very survival of our ever-so-fragile democracy.