Training | Teach Kids to Safely Resolve Bullying & Conflict

Description

The MAP STARS online course is perfect for teachers, parents, camp counsellors, after-school programs, workshops, and anyone concerned about bullying and conflict education.

It includes MAP STARS for Peace martial arts moves that address the fight or flight reaction when dealing with a bully.

Step-by-Step Blueprint

The MAP STARS online course includes everything you need to teach kids about bullying and conflict — even if you have little teaching experience.

You do not need to be a martial artist to teach these simple MAP STARS movements included in the program videos. This interactive action based class is popular with children.

It's designed to be easy, organized, and efficient so that you can start helping kids deal with bullying and conflict right away!

Created-For-You lessons to make sure you're covering everything.
Downloadable curriculums to keep you on-track while teaching.
20+ videos showing you Martial Arts for Peace movement, roleplays, and other interactive activities.
Detailed instructions for every lesson, roleplay, and activity.

In MAP STARS

Here are all the courses that are included in your bundle.

12 Ways to Walk Away with Confidence is the main lesson used in this course,
please use 12 Ways Act with Respect and PALS for additional lesson plans.

Introduction: Class Instruction & Structure
Introduction to MAP STARS. Covers class structure, why the lessons are set up the way they are, and additional exercises to use in class.

Lesson: 12 Ways to Walk Away With Confidence [12 Lessons]
Teach kids non-violent ways to cope with a conflict or bullying situation.

Lesson: 12 Ways to Act With Respect [12 Lessons]

Lesson: PALS (Positive Action Life Skills for Kids) [12 Lessons]

How Does This Program Help Kids?

In this fast-paced, high-stress, and competitive world, kids need a safe place where they can have the freedom to explore themselves and the world around them.

They also need more than traditional academic skills. Kids need to learn many day-to-day life skills to successfully cope with every day challenges.

In a friendly space, kids need to be allowed to inquire into the essential questions of what it means to live with intelligence, to create healthy guidelines for their behavior, and to be able to understand and resolve conflict peacefully.

By teaching the MAP STARS program, you can help kids:
Learn what prevents peace
Reduce stress by providing positive outlets
Understand the importance of healthy living
Train in a safe environment to protect themselves
Improve academic confidence
Learn to be considerate of others

Reasons You May May be Interested in Teaching This Program

MAP STARS online course is designed so that anyone can teach it. If you're serious about helping students with bullying, this course is for you.

If you're concerned about teaching Martial Arts, the movements included in this program are simple to teach and understand. They are not part of a Black Belt program.

MAP STARS is good for anyone who really wants to help kids with conflict. This course walks you through each lesson and includes in-depth notes, instructions, and videos so that you can teach with confidence. Plus, we encourage teachers to explore questions together with their students, so you don't need all the answers!

Why use Martial Arts to teach peace? The Martial Arts for Peace in this program form a compleate conflict-education and character-development program. Teaching Martial Arts for Peace can be enhanced by teaching conflict avoidence and resolution. Combining these three components provide kids the ability to prevent conflict, resolve it before it gets physical, and the conflidence to humanely manage physical conflict (if needed).

You only need to dedicate a few hours a week. This course is designed so that you only need to be a few steps ahead of your students. In fact, you don't even need to complete the course to begin teaching. You can learn alongside them!

Unlike other bullying programs, this course looks at the root causes of bullying and encourages students to explore all sides of a situation. Through this exploration, students learn to think deeply and use their intelligence when confronted with conflict. Kids learn how to prevent, resolve, and manage conflict. Unfortunately, many bully programs focus superficially on the tertiary or management level after a conflict has already occurred.

Bullying and conflict affects all of us, even into our adults lives. Bullying and conflict may often seem like a very challenging issue, but by helping kids learn to cope with bullying and conflict in a safe way, they'll become capable of dealing with it throughout their entire lives. Everyone is capable of making change!

Who Is MAP STARS Good For?

The MAP STARS online course is designed so that anyone can teach it, but the following professions are especially well suited to use the program:

After School Program Coordinator: This is an excellent opportunity to provide kids with the MAP STARS program to help them develop confidence to deal with bullying.

Community Center Employee: Suggest teaching MAP STARS as a new after-school or summer program. This can be an excellent opportunity because you don't need any marketing or administration skills and can focus on teaching.

Counselor: Use these skills to help kids better cope with conflict by offering them social and emotional support.

School Teacher: The MAP STARS skills can be naturally incorporated into the classroom. You can read stories, ask questions, and engage in fun activities such as roleplay or games throughout the day.

Workshop Presenter/Trainer: You can be paid or volunteer to present this program to educators, counselors, school administrators, law enforcement, businesses, and others who want to add these skills into their workplace. These skills aren't just for kids!

Summer Camp Director/Employee: Summer is an excellent opportunity to teach this program because parents often need their kids to go somewhere each day while they work. This allows you to explore complex issues of character development and conflict education in-depth.

Martial Arts School Instructors: This program is ideal for a martial arts school camp where kids can learn healthy ways to mentally and physically cope with bullying. This program has been used by martial arts schools internationally due to the efforts of Dr. Terrence Webster-Doyle.

School Violence Consultant: MAP STARS has also been designed to address school violence. The program creates a safe and controlled environment to explore the nature and structure of violence and how to stop it.

Why This Course Is Created?

Words from the founder

“When young people gain confidence through the MAP STARS physical skills to face a bully, they will then be able to use the valuable mental skills they learn in this course to get out of the conflict. They access their intelligence instead of their fearful fight or flight instinct.

In all my travels teaching I always wanted every parent to be able to help their children in this way. I saw that without physical confidence, children didn’t have all the skills they needed to deal with the bully.”

Jean Webster-Doyle, Director of MAP STARS