Session 1: Introduction to Group

This week, we completed our first successful group session. This first session serves as a basic overview of the program, enabling the children to understand the goals and expectations of group. All of the children seemed very excited to be there, fully participating throughout the session. They all directly expressed that they believed that the group was a good idea, that they felt there was a need to have this group, and that they wanted to participate in the group.

The main goal of our first group was to teach the children that "Violence is Never Okay." We talked about how we live in an extremely violent world, creating a collage from newspaper images to illustrate this point, and that "No person deserves to live in a world like this." We ended by talking about respect for others and self-respect. The children all gave examples about how they would show respect either to others or their selves this week. Candy was awarded for participation.

All of the children expressed desire to come back next week. We are off to a successful start! Hopefully, things will only continue to get better.