Healing, Empowering & Transforming youth one song at a time. Do you want a transformational classroom experience for your students? Do you need help weaving empathy skills in your academic curriculum? Do you want empathy embedded in the...

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Pillars of Empathy After spending the last ten years researching the ins and outs of empathy, I have noticed that it is a construct that is used very loosely in various circles. It is often confused with sympathy and more importantly, is used...

  Empathy Unit Upgrade Worksheet Have you ever wondered: How do I teach empathy to my students? How do I embed the instruction of empathy in my current lessons (or units of instructions)? Well, here is an Empathy Unit Upgrade Worksheet to...

Last Friday, at the book release celebration, I shared before family, mentors, colleagues and friends the journey that led to the publication of “The Story and Song Centered Pedagogy (SSCP). I explained how my passion for peace education...

“On the other side, I see no enemy lines On the other side, just one breed of human kind On the other side those who serve love, rule and shine No wars no harms, no guns no crimes On the other side” In this song, I revive the...

I get very excited when I see a real life application of something that I knew in theory. For example, I still remember back in middle school, when my science teacher taught us that water and oil do not mix, I could not wait to go home and try...

America was split at the verdict given by the jury of the Trayvon Martin vs. George Zimmerman court case earlier last week. Trayvon Martin, an un-armed 17 year old Black American was killed as a result of what now appears to be a fight between...

The research asserts that human beings construct meaning through narratives (Schank and Abelson, 1995). We make sense of the world by telling stories we either heard, experienced or created. Consequently, we act, relate and communicate with...

Self-awareness is an important component of emotional intelligence (Goleman,2012). To know the values that drive one’s positions in an argument and to know one’s triggers and the types of unconscious responses they produce, are critical to...