1. A Conversation About Physical Connection and Touch for Staff: SAY: Facilitator’s Tip: If you are offering this session virtually, you can use Polleverywhere or having participants put up a hand with the number of fingers to indicate level of agreement. If in person, you can create a worksheet of the statements below and ask…
Objectives:
Participants will . . .
Identify their own right balance of work and self-care.
Systematically prioritize work and self-care.
Break large projects down into small steps in order to make work, particularly change work, more manageable.
My God, guard my tongue from evil. Facilitator’s Tip: This session, and all Shevet sessions, look at the impact of societal messages on “boyhood” and “masculinity” for individual youth. We recognize that these messages do not just impact boys and male-identifying youth, they also impact nonbinary youth and those who have been raised around male…
Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will be able to: Expand their idea of what prayer looks like. Consider the various reasons that people pray. Consider the idea that spirituality could be experienced through various activities or actions. Experiment with activities that could be expressions of prayer and spirituality.
Enduring Questions: What does healthy friendship feel like? How can I express my needs in a friendship that isn’t working for me? When and how should I end a friendship that continues to harm me?
Who is rich? The one who is happy with their portion. — Pirkei Avot. Facilitator’s Tip: This session, and all Shevet sessions, looks at the impact of societal messages on “boyhood” and “masculinity” for individual youth. We recognize that these messages do not just impact boys and male-identifying youth. They also impact nonbinary youth and…
Planning for Success: Inviting Grandparents: Provide families with advance notice so they can arrange for a grandparent to join the student at this session. Grandparents may participate in person or from a distance. Long-Distance Grandparent Participation: In advance, parents (yes, parents need to be involved with this step), along with their child can plan the…
Grandparent Participation: In this session, we invite each student to attend with a grandparent. Grandparents may join in person or from a distance (see below, Planning for Success: Inviting Grandparents). Facilitator’s Tip: If a student does not have a grandparent, they should invite an older relative or mentor to participate with them.
Updated 2025. Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will be able to: Discover that prayer is different things for different people. Identify reasons they might find prayer personally meaningful. Engage with others' ideas about prayer through dialogue, writing, movement, and/or art
Background/Overview: Most teen boys engage in multiple forms of competition. Not only the obvious competitions: sports, popularity, academic challenges, and gaming, but the more obscure—they compete to see who can gross each other out in the cafeteria and who can do the most daring physical stunt. Ask them about the most ridiculous contest they have…
