URBAN REZ SOLUTIONS & R.E.A.L School

Take Back Your World NAVigate Your Life

Take Back Your World Navigate Your Life

The Urban Rez Solutions and R.E.A.L School relationship is one of compatibility and mutual purpose. Urban Rez Solutions and R.E.A.L School recognize the needs of marginalized communities and have exhibited parallel efforts to empower and maintain pro-social change. The specific components of conflict management are harmonious with dynamic engagement that utilizes pop culture as a catalyst to engage participants while imparting education, life skills and personality development.

Urban Rez SolutionsA consultancy that conducts comprehensive self empowering violence prevention, anger management and conflict resolution training geared to addressing the unique circumstances of African Canadians, Aboriginal Canadians and other marginalized communities. Urban Rez Solutions inspires participants to actively engage in the process of change and generate problem solving solutions.

Urban Rez Solutions

• The 5 A’s: Assessment, Awareness, Acceptance, Action and Accountability.

• Development of conflict management techniques

• Understanding intergenerational anger and its impact on the individual, family and community

• ‘Mental Health Wellness

ASSESSMENT

An honest evaluation or analysis.

Where do we individually or institutionally stand in relation to the existing issue?

Awareness

• Who have we become? • Are we unknowingly a product of our enviornments?

Where have our perceptions, prejudices, biases, stereotypes, normalizations and ism’s come from?

• Our historical reality and who we have become (e.g. self fulfilling prophecies and stereotypes) acknowledging that we have developed personal traits that are beneficial and detrimental regarding the issue at hand.

• An in depth understanding of the ignorance• Empathy

ACCEPTANCE

• The honest realization of that we have had something to do with who we’ve become and being accountable for the choices we’ve made.

• The blame game is over we must be conscious of our responsibilities.

• Accepting is not settling or complacency

ACTION

• Coming to an honest realization after conducting an assessment, developing an awareness and accepting our position; how and what are we going to change about the way we conduct ourselves?

• This prompts the call for CHANGE• Continuously being aware of the initial A’s and not

repeating that history if it wasn’t progressive• Internal Makeover a social re-conditioning• Initiating meaningful systemic change

ACCOUNTABILITY

• The consequences of not being ethically responsible.

• Benefits of being part of the Rez Solution vs. The Problem

• Responsible Leadership• Seeing CHANGE come to fruition and

accomplishing the goals

Conflict Management

• Culturally sensitive and relevant Anger Management and Conflict Resolution

• Reflections/Experiential Learning• Understanding Lateral Violence in community

MENTAL HEALH WELLNESS

• Vision, personal responsibility, self determination, self advocacy, communication, setting obtainable goals, resiliency, personal power, expertise of dynamic, self-determination, empowerment, small steps big moves, recognizing mobilization, rewards, nurturing optimistic supports, continue to declare the misconceptions of stigma, setbacks are opportunities for learning, setting obtainable goals

R.E.A.L School

• 1. The Principles of Character and Leadership• 2. Sailing the Seven C's - Challenge, Conscious

Choice, Curiosity, Courage, Commitment, Change & Communicate

• 3. Getting Performance Out of Potential• 4. Knowledge is King but Knowledge of Self

Rules

Community Partners

• To date we have delivered and continue to facilitate our programming to some of the following service providers; ‘Breaking the Cycle – Gang Exit Program’, Canadian Training Institute, ‘Prevention Intervention Toronto’, JVS/City of Toronto, ‘GED Program’, Native Child and Family Services of Toronto, Toronto District School Board, Beausoliel Island First Nations Board of Education, The Ontario Independent Police Review Directorate, The Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services, Frontier College, Taibu Community Health Centre, Toronto Police Services, Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office, Evergreen Brickworks, several First Nations communities nationally and in the USA, Yellowhead Tribal College and Toronto Community Housing.

• In addition collectively we also trained staff at the Toronto District School Board, Native Child and Family Services of Toronto, Frontier College, Door Steps Neighbourhood Services and For Youth Initiative.

MEDIA PARTNERS

• ASTRAL MEDIA• G987 (PUBLIC SERVICE

ANNOUNCEMENTS)• AFRO-GLOBAL

TELEVISION• WBLK (GRIOT NATION-

SUNDAYS 8-10PM)

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Reality Education Applied Life Skills

DIANE HILLRODERICK BRERETON

JORDAN MILLERFARLEY FLEX

TRAINEESAnd many more…

Non Profit since 2012Conceptualized 1990

Project based learning

A personal and professional development mechanism designed to enhance and sustain curiosity of self and retained engagement through actual and virtual experiential learning.

An integrated approach to living and learning that includes the principles of character, leadership, potential, performance, entrepreneurship, constant growth and adaptability

Interests Personality Traits

Skill Sets

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R.E.A.L. School is for

EVERYONE

In your schoolIn your community

At your officeIn Your Home

R.E.A.L. School utilizes the mass appeal of Pop Culture but breaks down its infrastructure to expose a myriad of opportunities for careers more aligned to the interests. Personality traits and skill sets of the participant.

R.E.A.L. SCHOOL IS

REALITY EDUCATION & APPLIED LIFESKILLS

A Program Teaching the 7 C’s

YOUTH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

CONCEPTS & SKILLS – FOR YOUTH TO

“Get REAL and BEcome the Leader in Your Life!”

THE 7 C’S OF R.E.A.L. SCHOOL

• CONSCIOUS CHOICE - Thru the Power of My Voice

• CURIOSITY – About My Potential – To Identify My Passion

• CHALLENGE – To Try Something Different - To Think Outside of the Box

• COURAGE - To Look Inside - To Tell the Truth – To Be MySELF

• CHANGE – My Perception & What Holds Me Back From Being My Best

• COMMITMENT – To Put Myself First – To Be the STAR of My Life

• COMMUNICATION – To Show Up – To Be Seen & Heard in the World

Example of aR.E.A.L. School Classroom

Chippewa of the Thames First Nation - 2012

33 Youth & Program Staff & Visitors Participate:

Ages 14 to 29 Years

Using Interactive Games & Exercises

R.E.A.L. School Teaches Youth How….

TO BEcome HIGHLY

EVOLVED, DEEPLY

SPIRITUAL, POWERFUL &

CREATIVE HUMAN BEINGS.

At R.E.A.L. School, Youth Learn To Take Their Place In The Circle Of Life.

They Practice Reflecting On The Meaning Of The Exercises For Self-

Discovery.

The “Flower of Power” Exercise

They Create A Vision For A Different Community Based On Their Personal Development Goals.

The “Flower of Power” Exercise

At R.E.A.L. School, Personal Development

IS Also Community Development.

R.E.A.L. School Helps Youth To

Reflect On What Limits Them….

And What Stops Them From

Being Their Best.

At R.E.A.L. School, Youth Learn To

SEE & PERCEIVE Themselves &

Others Differently!

The “Flower of Power” Exercise

To Learn That They Are The Creators of Their Lives!

This Is What They Said They Needed……

To Know They Have The Power To Create A Different

Reality – A Different Community!

TO OVERCOME MY PERSONAL LIMITATIONS, I NEED:

• To be more independent• To be more patient and confident• To look at the world more openly and to stop

being scared; to stand tall & proud• To be more confident about myself• To come out of my shell and be loud and crazy• To be more vocal and express myself

TO OVERCOME MY PERSONAL LIMITATIONS, I NEED:

• To have a bigger voice and more confidence• To be more motivated and inspired• To be more focused• To be more of a leader• To be more fearless so I can stand high & proud• To find more courage to express myself• To be more motivated about things

TO OVERCOME MY PERSONAL LIMITATIONS, I NEED:

• To be more expressive• To become more aware of other cultures• To be motivated and to use my voice• To change the things I can and to let go of the

things I cannot change• To be more assertive• To have more courage, leadership, strength

TO BECOME THE LEADER OF MY LIFE!

Dr. Carol Hopkins, Executive Director, National Native Addictions Partnership Foundation. Presentation on “The Role of Culture in Addressing Addictions,” The Beginning of the Circle Conference, March 5-7, 2013, Ottawa, ON.

PERCEPTION TEST

PERSPECTIVE TRANSFORMATION • American Adult Educator: Jack Mezirow, 1978

• American: Stephen Brookfield – Critical Self-Reflection

• Canadian Adult Educator: Patricia Cranton

• Joe Dispenza – “Evolve Your Brain” & “Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself” - How A Change In Perception Can Change A Person’s Life

• Norman Doidge – “The Brain That Changes Itself”

• Louise LeBrun – NLP in The WEL-Systems Context

• “The Observer Effect” – Double Slit Experiment – Quantum Science

• All Perception is Projection (of the Mind)

• People live their lives out of habit – habituation – due to the programs that are in place inside of us. For eg., learned behaviour patterns wired into our nervous systems.

• You cannot create a different reality by continually engaging in the same structure of behaviour and expecting a different result.

• There’s a process behind the behaviour and if we can engage the process, then the behaviour changes all by itself.

• This process for change, transformation and accelerated evolution is what the human body is designed for. We are naturally wired for change through the design of our nervous system.

KEY POINTS:

• I can redefine my external reality by mindfully choosing to shift my internal reality at the level of the body.

• The practice of mindfulness often results in an expansion of consciousness (insight) of how I see myself, others and the world more broadly.

• Because ALL meaning is context-dependent, perception allows me to contextualize my experience.

• So if I shift my perspective of my experience, then I change what I discover about it and this new awareness or insight then changes how I hold the experience inside of me; meaning my behaviour shifts to naturally fall in-line with my perception.

KEY POINTS:

• Addiction is a brilliant strategy that people use to redefine how they live.

• Therapists attack their strategies and label them as bad, so people then swap their strategies.

• But if we help them to see where the intelligence is in their strategy, then this conversation helps them to create a different context in which they can experience themselves so they no longer require the strategy.

• Without a larger context for the perception of self, the strategy will not disappear. i.e. need to move from the 1st to 2nd to 3rd perceptual position to create change.

One Final Example:

NYAWEHKOWA – GREAT THANKS!

• You cannot solve the problems of the world by using the same level of thinking that created them – Albert Einstein

• There are many ways to see the world; Look at the Choice Point as the Bridge between Your Past and Your Future – Louise LeBrun

THIS PRESENTATION PREPARED BY:

Diane Hill, Integrative Programs ConsultantProgram Administrator – R.E.A.L. School: Reality Education & Applied Lifeskills Youth Leadership Development Program Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, ON Tel: 905-768-2938Cell: 289-260-5736Website: www.dianehill.netEmail: hill.diane.13@gmail.com