SPEAK UP 4 REAL HOPE: Children’s Well-Being and Empowerment Projects
REAL HOPE is a values based, peace nonviolence and anti-bullying program. REAL HOPE is an acronym for: Responsibility, Empathy, Awareness, Love, Honesty, Oneness, Peace and Enjoyment. We invite schools to give REAL HOPES to children. Peacefool can come to start a conversation or to deliver a REAL HOPES funship.
a) Happy Chats for Kids (Well-being)
It is important for schools to encourage children to have discussions about what makes them happy. A clown is a wonderful facilitator.
b) REAL HOPES 4 Kids (Values and Anti-bullying)
Susan aka Peacefull clown visited many schools to teach REAL HOPE (see below). Values based education instils real happiness in children especially during times where they feel fearful and disconnected from who they are. Violent video games simulate violent behaviours but do not provide content to discuss violence or reflect on real life. Children’s perceptions can make it hard to discern between real life and a computer game. They start to believe monsters are real or they themselves model violent behaviours when they feel not safe. One child told me he believed he was ‘bad’.
Happiness and pro-social skills are critical for peace in our world, otherwise children become disconnected and indifferent to each other unwittingly causing harm to each other.
Mental health is an emerging issue which clearly reflects a society under pressure. Depression requires deep rest (see video on Jim Carrey), anxiety (psychological fears) and stress (pressure) arise when children feel powerless and frightened losing the sense of real meaning in their lives.
The REAL HOPE program has been designed to address bullying and develop pro-social behaviours that are peaceful and values based. This program is values based, peace nonviolence and anti-bullying program.
REAL HOPE is an acronym for: Responsibility, Empathy, Awareness, Love, Honesty, Oneness, Peace and Enjoyment. REAL HOPE is a program where life skills, emotional intelligence, positive psychology and peaceful behaviours are developed and integrated over a 8 week program.
Schools can book Susan (aka Peacefool) to run the program or to highlight specific values teachers think are important. The program has been successful in schools.
Refer https://schools.worldpeacefull.com/anti-bullying/
c) The SPEAK UP Award:
Sustainability, Peace, Encouragement Award 4 Kids to Unite People
This project is to empower children in the areas of peace and sustainability to find fun ways to align with harmony and earth systems. This can commence as a local project or an international project. We are seeking project partnerships and can start immediately with the right team.
This Award is to encourage children to SPEAK UP for their planet – the Sustainability Peace Encouragement Award for Kids to Unite People. This project was designed for children to empower change. This project is looking for project partners (cheer! leaders) to assist in empowering young people to ‘be the change they wish to see in the world’ and become involved to empower children. This is a great project to empower children in peace building and sustainability (ecological balance).
The project was initiated as a International Project in 2015 and is now available in 2025.
The brochure can be viewed: SPEAK UP New-1
The SPEAK UP! Award will be piloted in Australia in 2025 to Australian children and then it will become a global project.
Video introduction of SPEAK UP:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/HKOqk_Dtazk?
SPEAK UP Award page: https://www.worldpeacefull.com/childrens-speak-up-award/