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I have created and taught a curriculum called “Values and Virtues” to teens and pre-teens for a number of years.   The success of this curriculum is based in the process of co-creating with the students, the sacred and safe space of a sharing circle within which we discuss, role-play and experience good and healthy decision making on all levels.  The issues we discuss include honesty, truth, lying, cheating, stealing, shoplifting, drug and alcohol use, self-harm, gossiping, risk-taking, internet use, cyber bullying, texting, “sexting”, relationships, privacy and secrecy as well as many other issues.

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