Breaking Down the Walls

Changing the culture on your campus

Student doing Breaking Down the Walls activity

Breaking Down the Walls is a comprehensive program designed to bring unifications to your campus. This program invites and empowers not just some, but all of your students to create a positive and supportive climate at their school. Considering that just 10-20% of the student body often holds the power to define the climate of an entire campus, a program like this is important because it asks more of your students to take responsibility for what their campus feels like on a daily basis.

Breaking Down the Walls is a powerful, interactive program that creates a unique environment of self-reflection and community building. By working with a cross section of their peers, students learn that they are not isolated from each other but are rather part of a community that needs each other to be completely successful. Along the way, students discover the power of getting to know one another as well as the impact they have on those around them.

Unlike other programs that have a narrow focus, Breaking Down the Walls has a broad vision and its total impact is far reaching. It could easily stand along as a violence prevention program as it teaches students how to communicate and really listen to each other, giving them the tools to work together in times of question or conflict. Breaking Down the Walls is also a leadership program as it empowers positive leaders from a variety of peer groups to help create a school climate that is safe, comfortable and supportive for everyone. Both students and staff are invited to participate side by side, thus providing an opportunity for the entire school community to connect.

This program serves as a model for teaching school culture; it unites a campus through activities that promote school success and pride in addition to providing the opportunity for personal growth. Bring Breaking Down the Walls to your campus- break down walls and build campus unity.

Breaking Down the Walls from Shaun Boyte.

Breaking Down the Walls works on three levels to unite your school.

Unity through Breaking Down the Walls

1. The first piece involves the entire student body in a schoolwide assembly where a dynamic speaker, using compelling stories and humor, asks students to reflect on themselves and how they interact with those around them on a daily basis.
2. Second, a Learning for Living staff member trains selected students to become small group facilitators. These leaders are selected from different social groups on your campus so that a sense of leadership spreads to a student population beyond those traditionally considered for leadership roles. As trained leaders, these students gain skills in facilitation and small group process.
3. The final and most significant piece of Breaking Down the Walls involves assembling 150 different students a day for 2-4 days to work with a Learning for Living facilitator and the trained student leaders in a powerful all day program. Together, students build a common purpose that creates a more compassionate and respectful climate on your campus.

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