You are cordially invited to attend a workshop at Allenby Public School by Lorna Blumen, international speaker and expert on the topic of Bullying, conflict resolution skills, stress management, and emotional intelligence.
Monday, November 30
7pm – 9:30pm
Allenby Junior Public School, Library
391 St Clements Ave, Toronto
This interactive session will be a great opportunity to better understand:
- What bullying is
- How to prevent it
- Change bullying as a community and to create more understanding
- How to create a respectful environment
- Learn how to internalize what good behaviour looks like
- Teaching children respect basics, and sound decision making, which leads to resilience in later life
- How to work with conflict resolution in a constructive way
- And how to work with diversity
Parents, teachers, administration, and anyone working with children, are encouraged to attend.
Refreshments and childcare will be provided, please RSVP for all attendees.
RSVP by November 23: margaretyeung@gmail.com or 647-891-6912
About Lorna Blumen
Lorna Blumen is an educational consultant in Toronto, Canada. Lorna is the co-developer of Girls’ Respect Groups, an after-school program for middle school girls, led by specially trained high school girls. Lorna runs workshops on Respect, Bullying Prevention, Conflict Resolution Skills, Stress Management, & Emotional Intelligence. Lorna mentors teens and young adults in the GRG Program. She works with adults who work with children – teachers, parents, school councils, mental health professionals, coaches, & camp counsellors.
Lorna’s latest book, Bullying Epidemic: Not Just Child’s Play(Camberley Press, 2011) was released in September, 2011 and was named a finalist in the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards in the Education category.
In 2009, Lorna co-authored Girls’ Respect Groups: An Innovative Program To Empower Young Women & Build Self-Esteem! (Camberley Press, 2009) with two teenage GRG Leaders. Her “Bystanders To Children’s Bullying” was published in the book The Art of Followership: How Great Followers Create Great Leaders And Organizations (Jossey-Bass, 2008). Lorna was a contributing author to When Something’s Wrong: Ideas For Families, the Canadian Psychiatric Research Foundation’s best-selling family handbook (2007).
Lorna was on Parent Education Network’s Board of Directors from 1997-2006. Lorna has appeared on Canadian local and national television & radio, at international conferences, and has contributed to national magazines for parents & teachers. Lorna received her BA from Wellesley College, her MS from Georgetown University, & her MBA from Stanford University.