Artist, Singer, Musician
Teaching Peace through the Visual and Performing Arts

Background/Main Focus
Cynthia is a professional visual and performing artist visiting us from Dallas, Tx. A qualified mediator since 1990, she is also a conflict resolution and team building trainer and curriculum writer who teaches conflict resolution through the visual and performing arts for educational and corporate institutions. Cynthia facilitates ‘art in the neighborhood’ projects with ages 3 thru high school where students discuss their ideas about community and document their community or neighborhood utilizing photography, drawing or video cameras. Her students create beautiful journals and handmade books to display their art or write a script and create a short video piece. Singing workshops for 3 year olds through 2nd grade and theater workshops, called Peace Power for ages 7 through 14 address conflict resolution, honoring differences and building community.

Offerings
Kids’ Workshop Topics

Music
Sing It Out! Communicating Peace through Music. PK thru 3rd grade.
Children develop community as they participate in singing and creating songs. Through group singing they learn to respect other’s differences and ideas, use caring language, and begin to learn the language of making peace. We will sing in English, Spanish, Russian, Zulu, Sign Language and Native American.
	Classroom Residency Format:	3 to 5 days, 45 mins. each visit, book 2 or 3 classes back to back.
	Performance Format:	maximum of 40 children.
Photographic Art Through the lens of the camera, students document the communities they participate in. They discover that they are a part of many different communities; neighborhood, school, classroom, sports, clubs and families. Working together creating photographic art pieces they explore the importance of honoring and respecting differences and practice conflict resolution skills. Photo assignments usually include self portraits, images of peace and peacemaking and are tailored to each age group.
Picture Peace PK thru 3rd grade
Exploring the basics of photography, students work in teams using instant cameras to complete photo projects. They learn to communicate their ideas and create handmade journals to take home and share with their families.
	Classroom Residency Format:	3 to 5 days, 45 min. each visit, book 2 or 3 classrooms back to back.
Photo Resolutions 4th grade thru high school
Intensive, hands-on workshops using instant cameras and experimenting with an alternative photo process called image transfers. Students' ideas about community are powerfully and artistically expressed using this medium. Their photographic art pieces can be framed or be made into handmade books for exhibition at school, a gallery or in the community.
	Classroom Residency Format:	7 1/2 to 10 contact hours, 1 1/2 hours each visit, book 2 classrooms back to back.
Photographic Art programs are also available for at risk youth and teens

Adult Workshop Topics

The Four Directions of Peacemaking A team building workshop

 

When working as a team (faculty on campus, committees, etc.) each member must learn to recognize and honor the strengths of others. In this workshop you will learn to appreciate individual differences based on the Native American view of the wheel of life (also called the medicine wheel). In this culture each person is born into one of four directions on the compass; north, south, east and west, each having negative and positive characteristics. Moving through life presents the opportunity to move around the wheel, adopting traits from the other quadrants. Group assignments during the workshop illustrate the positive benefits gained when team members respect and utilize each other’s strengths. A very experiential, hands-on workshop.

Format: 3 hour workshop, can be divided into two 1 1/2 hour classes.

Basic Conflict Resolution Training for Staff Development

A 6 hour basic conflict resolution training which is highly interactive, hands-on and introspective. Through role plays, activities and discussion, participants use their experiences and the resolution skills they have already developed to examine the causes of conflict and what methods are used as adults to handle differences. Conflict resolution theory and philosophy are explored and a Peer Mediation overview is presented upon request.

Format: 6 hours.

The Spiritual Dynamics of Conflict Resolution

Conflict in life is inevitable. Using participant’s experiences of conflict as role plays we will examine the lessons to be learned when faced with challenging situations and how our responses can add to our spiritual growth. We will explore getting to the heart of conflict to resolution where healing can take place. You will be challenged to look beyond management or settlement in the materialistic sense to understand the hurt feelings involved. The goal to move towards reconciliation and wholeness requires a heartfelt approach that affirms human dignity.

Format: 3 to 6 hours.

Availability
Teaches workshops throughout the United States, concentrating on Texas, Oklahoma and Colorado.

Fee
Negotiable

Contact
Respect Diversity Foundation
405.359.0369

Visit
www.cynthiadanielwolf.com