Phoenix office of arts and culture final 2014 2015 report

2014-2015 REPORT

Thank You Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture For Helping Phoenix Youth Realize Their Hopes, Fears, and Most of All, Their Dreams . . . Through the ARTS

Inspiring & empowering kids with the tools to make better life choices . . .

Thanks to the foresight and generosity of

funds from Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture.

This is the Final Report of 4 different workshops making a difference in 83 young lives.

Tomorrow's leaders in Arizona, experience their Pain being transformed into Possibilities and Purpose .They are now Inspiring and empowered find their gifts, know that they matter and lead a more meaningful productive life and a brighter tomorrow.

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hat: Release the Fear, a non-profit health and human services organization, teaches Arizona’s youth the

life skills needed to combat the effects of Peer Pressure, Gang involvement, Bullying, Abuse, and Violence in our society and to make better life choices. Release the Fear (RTF) has worked with thousands of at-risk youth and adults in Arizona and around the world, offering experiential programs that help reverse the paralyzing effects of fear and diminished self-worth. Our programs encourage youth to explore safe and healthy lifestyles and to overcome disabilities through the development of leadership and social skills through evidence-based curriculum that meets National Common Core standards. Arizona Department of Education, accredited Release the Fear program as a Character Education program

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ow: These programs stimulate whole-brain thinking and develop metacognitive thought processing

by utilizing new applied-knowledge teaching methods. These programs demonstrate options that awaken a creative consciousness and expose the unlimited potential of critical thinking and problem solving to help participants develop better cognitive behavioral skills. Our trained facilitators guide participants through interactive creative activities and analytically explore the connectedness to their lives. Release the Fear utilizes inquiry-based learning experiences, an educational practice where the teacher/facilitator uses controlled questioning to serve as a learning guide in order to move students towards new understandings. Educational research shows that student retention increases when new learning is discovered through inquiry practices, as the student is able to take ownership of these findings. The teacher/facilitator must act as guide while being an expert questioner, thinking of the end objective at all times and posing questions to allow students to reach objectives on their own. When this is done, students are able to create new thought patterns which connect and build on their applied knowledge and personal life goals. Without these essential life skills, the still- maturing minds of detained youth view their future as bleak with no hope for a “normal” life.

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pproach: Through experiential programs, we encourage participants to develop valuable core life

skills, better critical problem solving, and a healthy sense of understanding of self and others. Through the RTF programs, participants discover that anything is possible, that they have a purpose in life. They see why they do matter to the world, to the community, and most of all to themselves.

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ransformation: The Maricopa County Juvenile Probation Office released a 2010 report

demonstrating the value of Inside Out Bridging Possibilities workshops on 357 of their juvenile population. Thirty percent of incarcerated youth recidivate—meaning three out of ten will again find themselves in conflict with law and society and back behind bars. For the incarcerated youth who participated in just one Release the Fear workshop, that recidivism figure dropped by 23 percent.

For those who were able to benefit from multiple workshops, it dropped by 16 percent - nearly half.

That is an impressive impact on any child’s future as well as the community in general..

Release the Fear, Inc. has worked with youth in Arizona and internationally, in such places as Guam and El Salvador, instilling positive life changes for thousands.

For nearly seventeen years, Release the Fear has had the opportunity to interact with over 7,600 troubled youth; these youth now know they have a life purpose. They know their wishes and dreams can come true. They know they are worth it and that they matter!

Our evidence-based curriculum has helped troubled kids in schools, jails, detention, and treatment centers. Through the creative processes of art, music, and communication, we teach kids cognitive behavioral skills to build self-esteem. They learn tools to help them succeed in school, conflict resolution, and to address peer pressure, and bullying.

Between the years 2007 and 2013, Release

the Fear has shown constant improvement upon youth’s pre- and post-reporting’s learned about perceptions of themselves.

In addition, during the years of 2012 and 2013, Release the Fear has contributed to an overall improvement of youth’s self-reported willingness to assist another if bullied. Despite a decline of reported learning’s about proactive options to prevent being bullied, their learning consistently remained over 78 percent.

Winter 2014-2015 RELEASE THE FEAR 2014-2015 RTF Pre/Post Survey Results Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture OVERALL PERCENTAGES 83 Students (4 BP Workshops) Male 48% Female 52% – Youth Ages 10-14 93.3% discovered something new about themselves 90.8% discovered something new about classmates and friends.

Pre 63.3% compared to Post 69.3% realized that they are not alone in their fears.

Pre 91.5% compared to Post 97.5% realized that they can make their dreams a reality.

84.3% learned something to help them deal with bullying.

91.5% stated that they would do something if they saw someone being bullied.

Individual Workshop Percentages 1. October 14-17 2014 Excelencia Elementary School 20 Students (1 IO-BP Workshops) Male 50% Female 50% – Youth Ages 10-12 90% discovered something new about themselves 90% discovered something new about classmates and friends.

Pre 45% compared to Post 55% realized that they are not alone in their fears.

Pre 90% compared to Post 100% realized that they can make their dreams a reality.

85% learned something to help them deal with bullying.

85% stated that they would do something if they saw someone being bullied.

2. October 15-17 2014 Heard Elementary School 25 Students (1 IO-BP Workshops) Male 48% Female 52% – Youth Ages 12-13 100% discovered something new about themselves 96% discovered something new about classmates and friends.

Pre 64% compared to Post 84% realized that they are not alone in their fears.

Pre 96% compared to Post 100% realized that they can make their dreams a reality.

96% learned something to help them deal with bullying.

96% stated that they would do something if they saw someone being bullied.

3. December 15-17 2014 Larry Kennedy Elementary School 17 Students (1 IO-BP Workshops) Male 41% Female 59% – Youth Ages 11-14 88% discovered something new about themselves 82% discovered something new about classmates and friends.

Pre 82% compared to Post 76% realized that they are not alone in their fears.

Pre 94% compared to Post 100% realized that they can make their dreams a reality.

76% learned something to help them deal with bullying.

94% stated that they would do something if they saw someone being bullied.

4. February 17-20 2015 Excelencia School 21 Students (1 IO-BP Workshops) Male 52% Female 48% – Youth Ages 12-14 95% discovered something new about themselves 95% discovered something new about classmates and friends.

Pre 62% compared to Post 62% realized that they are not alone in their fears.

Pre 86% compared to Post 90% realized that they can make their dreams a reality.

80% learned something to help them deal with bullying.

91% stated that they would do something if they saw someone being bullied.

RELEASE THE FEAR 2014-2015 Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture Support Program Budget: Bridging Possibilities Workshop: Proposed Budget Per Workshop Instructional Programming: Program Supervisor/Trainer Co-Facilitator / Trainee Reporting and Evaluations: Pre/Post Inventories Final Report Supplies and Other Workshop Exp Art & Printed Supplies / Snacks Recognition for Students, Postage, Mktng Internal Coordination, Support & Workshop Preparation Travel Expenses – Average

Budget for 4 Workshops

$680.00 $300.00

$2,720.00 $1,200.00

$150.00 $ 70.00

$ 600.00 $ 280.00

$ 80.00 $ 60.00

$ 320.00 $ 240.00

$260.00 $ 50.00

$1,040.00 $ 200.00

TOTAL FOR 1 WORKSHOP $1,650.00 Phoenix Office of Arts & Culture Support RTF Herberger Funding

$ 6,600.00 $ 2,800.00 $ 3,600.00

Total Cost Breakdown per workshop with average of 18 youth each: Average cost per daily session: $550.00 Average cost per youth per session $30.55 Per Capita cost per youth workshop:$91.66

$ 6,600.00

Average In-kind donations: The space and equipment at the school The time of one different staff from the facility for the duration of each workshop. Staff is instrumental in the selection of participants for workshop from applications. Volunteers coordinate preparation of documents, organize all supplies, and assist facilitators prior to and during workshops.

In-kind School staff $50.per X 6 hours = $300 00-Per X 4 = $1,200.00 Staff coordination time setting up workshops; $30.00 Per X 4 = $120.00 RTF Volunteers $30.X 6 hours = $180.00 Per X 4 = $780.00

Average In-kind for 4 Programs: = $2,040.00

Inspiring & empowering kids with the tools to make better life choices .

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Release the Fear’s mission, since 1996, is to counter the effects of violence in our communities by turning fear, anger, and hate into acceptance, hope, and self empowerment, bridging endless possibilities through the creative process

Thanks to The Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture, 20 young lives from Excelencia Elementary School experienced their Possibilities.

This workshop took place on October 14-17, 2014.

Opening up possibilities for the young minds of Arizona’s youth for a brighter tomorrow.©

“Bridging Possibility” workshops.

Through stories, activities and artwork, Release the Fear’s Workshops will help students to:  Draw One’s Fears and Awaken Hopes and Dreams  Stimulate Creative Listening and Communication  Bridge Understanding  Discuss How Color Affects Us and Our Environment  Awaken Senses  Heighten Visual Awareness of Our Environment  Turn Pain into Possibilities into Purpose.

The students are divided into four groups or teams that they remain with throughout the workshop. In their small group, the students may be asked to complete an activity, to share responses, or to reflect on an exercise. Often times these groups can have students with different beliefs, various backgrounds, and even opposing gang affiliations. The workshop will end with a group created painting to be displayed for the public.

Participant Responses Participants are asked to reflect on several of the activities and then share with the group.

These responses are written in their words without edit.

The following responses are from the students who range in ages from 10-12.

The students are asked to reflect on the following question: How do you think this activity could help you in your daily life (In School, Out of School, or In Your Career)?

Who am I? : Teamwork, leadership. We help each other. Speak up and tell teachers. Work things out. / Trustworthy, honesty. Good student. Knowing what to do. With family members. / Communication, respect. Teamwork and making friends. Tell an adult. You can talk to others family. / Get to know each other. Honesty and teamwork. Stay out of trouble, group work. To not amuse something that’s not true. Makes things possible and can make friends.

Creative Storytelling: Teamwork. Work together. Teamwork. Call them. / Friendship. Don’t feel lonely. Be friendly. Helping people, get friends, making friends. / Speaking, integrity. Presentation.

Speak up to the bullies. When you need help, have problems. / Communication, teamwork. Working together with people you don’t usually hang out with. Help to stand up for someone. When you are in college you be ready for what they expect.

Through the Hoops: Patience, teamwork. To work with others. People that are there for you. Help stay calm. / Teamwork, patience, trust. Work together to accomplish. Prevention, tell someone, friendship. Experience life, positive to each other. / Patience, teamwork. Working with a team. Try to get someone to calm down. Waiting, working together. / Working together. Because when we’re in groups we can work together. It can help working together because he can tell the teacher. When you have a job and if you work together, it will be done faster.

Reflective Take Away Assignment: Courage to know yourself. To achieve your goals. It helps others. To set goals higher in life. / Believing in yourself, trust, responsibility. Respect others, make friends. Trust, respect. Respect others. / Courage, confidence, strength. When you struggle in a subject. Think first, be a leader. Solve problems, get through obstacles. / Confidence, pride.

Speaking up. Helps to ignore it. Play better, happy mood everyday.

Mirror Work: Look at Yourself in the eyes (ONLY) and tell yourself that you love or like yourself just the way you are.

Happy, fun, funny. / That makes me feel confident. / It makes me feel like things are possible to do. / Nice, good, respectful. / Funny, weird because it’s my first time. / When I said I love myself I felt a lot of things like I mean something to someone, also I felt special. I felt important. / It makes me feel that I am cool. / Mirror work feels good. / It made me feel weird but learned to accept myself the way I am. / It makes me feel good about myself. / It feels good. / I like that I am confident. It makes me feel that I can try and go for my goals to get something. / It made me feel really weird but I feel really good. / It felt weird because I’m always judgment about my body and face. / It makes me feel nice to tell myself to say that. / Good, relaxed, happy. / Handsome, trustworthy, awesome.

Hero: Who is Your Hero and Why do you think are they important? What characteristics or qualities, would you or do you, look for in a Hero?

My hero Viviana Jose. Best friend. BFF always there for you. / My mom is important to me because she is a very hard worker and never gives up. I would look for someone who shows pride. / My hero is Viviana and Aaliyah. Viviana and Aaliyah because they make me smile. They never put me down. They make sure I’m okay. I would like someone that is helpful. / Mom, dad. They are helpful and nice. That they are nice, thankful, and helpful. Helpful, thankful, and nice. / I think my mom is my superhero because she was always there for me. She still is and she’s helpful and important to me! Integrity, respect, nice, excellence. / I have two heroes and they are my friend and their names are Josselyn and Gabe. They are important to me because they’re special and make me feel important in their life. What I expected from a hero is to make everyone feel special and to help people. / Spiderman is important because he saves lives. Spiderman. / My mom because she has been there for me. / Louie, Aaliyah, Jose, Cesar. They are important to me because whenever I feel down, help me feel better and appreciate what they have done for me. Kindness, brave, nice. / My hero is Batman. I think Batman my hero cause he is. He saves people. / My dad. / Jackie Robinson. Jackie is important to me because he always tried even though they said no or it’s impossible. He was important because he changed baseball history even though they put him down. I look for someone who changed history for others. / Spiderman. He is my superhero because he is really nice. He or she has to be nice, not a bully, and knows how to fight bad guys. / JC Caylene. He is important to me because he inspired me to do many things and accepts myself. Inspiration, positivity. / Jessie J. She is the most person that I like. She is a singer. A great singer.

They are really helpful. They love to save people. / The Flash. I think he is important cause he saves lives. I like him because he is fast and I want to be fast. / Channing Tatum. He is my romadall. / Catwoman.

Catwoman is important to me because she demonstrates that girls are brave and strong. I would be Catwoman.

I would wear black outfit with cat ears.

Seeing Beyond: Guessable. To take a guess. It is a mind game for us to guess what is in the bag.

Make me happy. / Honesty, teamwork. Honesty because if you lied, you won’t come back. To not lie to others.

Reflective Take Away Assignment: Back up perspective. Listen and pay attention. To track the speaker when talking. / Treat others the same way you want to be treated. Have friends. Loyal, lonely, not ignorant. / Relax, confident, honesty, trustworthy. Group activities, recess. Honesty with

everyone. / To change negative to positive. Test when you think you can’t do it but you pass it.

Stress, anger, worriness.

Describe a time when you had an experience that you perceived (thought/saw) as negative, but through time or something you did, you perceived (thought/saw) the experience as a positive one.

I was scared of a rollercoaster. But when I got on it, it was not scary, it was fun. / I guessed on my test and got 100%. / When someone from my group took my pencil away from me. When someone told someone that they are nice. / In 4th grade, I went a counseling group. I was scared that I was in trouble, but I wasn’t. They were there to help me. / One time we had a drama with my friends and had to go to counseling. We thought it was going to be boring but it was really fun and it teached us a lesson too. / At first I thought I sucked at football, but eventually I was really good. / Last time we were losing at soccer and we won at the end. / I throwed a football cricket really cricket so my friends catched it. / I went to buy ice cream and I thought it was going to taste bad but it tasted really good. / When I was going to take a test and it was hard but when I got it back I passed. / One thing I saw that was that I came here but then this class was cool. / What I did was I thought I didn’t do it right but it ended turn good. / Bullying outside our school. I try to speak up but I got a black eye. I felt bad for my friend but a couple weeks after I saw him getting hit and then I speaked up and got a swollen eye for trying to stop the bully but at least I try to stop it. / No money more money. / I thought RTF was going to be a trouble class but it’s actually not. It turned out to be good. / I thought having a friend was not going to be fun but then I got a BFF and we are always going to be BFFs. / I thought this program was going to be boring because I wasn’t going to have recess, but it’s fun. / I thought someone wsa going to be a bad friend but ends up being my BFF. / What I think it that the first day of my school there was this girl that nobody liked and they always told me that she was a bad girl. And I didn’t care and at the 4th day at my new school we started to be best friends. / I guessed on my test and I got 90%. / A experience that I had is I thought Peter Piper Pizza was bad but when I went inside, everything was cool.

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Release the Fear, Inc. ® PO Box 3815 Phoenix, AZ 85030 www.releasethefear.org 602-818 6959

Funded By: The Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture Dates: October 14-17, 2014 Location: Excelencia Elementary School %Male 50

%Female 50

Ages 10-12

Do you think others (Kids my age, older & younger, Adults) have the same Fear as I do?

Pre %YES 45 %NO 50 %Other 5 Post %YES 55 %NO 40 %Other 5 Rate this statement: You feel comfortable speaking in front of others.

Pre % Not at all 10 % Sometimes 70 % All the Time 20 Post % Not at all 30 % Sometimes 55 % All the Time 15 Rate this statement: I believe I can make my hopes and/or dreams come true.

Pre % Not at all 15 % Sometimes 55 % All the Time 30 Post % Not at all 10 % Sometimes 50 % All the Time 40 Rate this statement: I respect my own decisions even when dealing with peer pressure.

Pre % Not at all 15 % Sometimes 45 % All the Time 35 %No Answer 5 Post % Not at all 10 % Sometimes 50 % All the Time 40 %No Answer 0 Complete this statement: I am trustworthy and see myself as a __. Follower, Equal, Leader Pre % Follower 10 % Equal 30 % Leader 55 %No Answer 5 Post % Follower 10 % Equal 30 % Leader 60 %No Answer 5 Have you ever been bullied? % Yes 35 % No 60 %No Answer 5 Have you ever seen someone being bullied? % Yes 60 % No 35 %No Answer 5 Did you do anything? % Yes 50 % No 35 % No Answer 15 Did you learn something in the workshop that will help you deal with bullying?

Post % Yes 85 % No 15 % No Answer 0 Thoughts Shared: Speak up. / Yes. / To love yourself the way I am. / I don’t know. / To tell others. / I don’t that. / Speak up honestly. / Speak up, honesty. / Friendship. / Yes and it is to speak up for people. / I don’t nobody being bullied. / I’m scared to speak up.

After attending the character education workshop and learning about compassion, if you saw someone be bullied, would you do something?

Post % Yes 85 % No 10 % No Answer 5 Thoughts Shared: Speak up. / Yes. / That don’t be scared. / Yes I would help them. / I don’t know. / To tell a teacher or grown up. / I get trouble. / Speak up and always be honest when telling adult. / Bullying program. / I would go up to the bully. / Yes cuz I don’t like bully. / Help out try to.

Did you learn any skills, such as respect or responsibility, to help you make your own decisions not based on Peer Pressure?

Post % Yes 80 % No 15 % Other 5 Thoughts Shared: Confident. / Yes. / Make them stop. / To do my own thing. / I don’t know. / Sometimes. / Yes to not listen to others. / I don’t know. / I’m responsible for what I say and do. / Respect others. / Cuz will spell them. / Confident.

What do you think about color?

What % gave more thought and shared them about color.

Pre 95% Post 95% Thoughts Shared: Pre: Yes because I love if don’t I would like maybe. / A star. / I think color is a rainbow. / I think color is a rainbow. / I color is a rainbow. / A rainbow. / It’s cool. / I don’t know. / The color is bright. / They are all equal. / Dark or white. / It has a natural look. / I like blue. / I like color because I like pink and mostly all the colors! / I have no problem with color. / It means to me like color is important for everything. / I like the color red and color would mean to me by color of skin is to not be judge. / Sometimes I think it means about colorful attitudes. / I like red a lot and brightens the world. / It give a nice color. / My favorite color is blue.

Post: A star. / Color can describe anything. / That it’s based on feeling. / Good. / You what you are. / That I love it. / I learned that color is base on most of the things. / We learned to paint about community. / That it’s colorful. / Making two colors into one. / It has a meaning to it. / Cool. / Like a rainbow. / Colors are really pretty. / They’re different in their own way. They are equal. / Color blue. / I learned that there is a lot of color in music. / Your favorite and unfavorite color. / Color can change your moods. / Like high lower respect.

My most important hope or dream is. . .

What % gave more thought to their Dreams becoming reality.

Pre 90% Post 100% Thoughts Shared: Pre: I’m growing up. / I dream I can fly in the sky. / To be rich. / To be a professional soccer player. / To be soccer player. / Have a good career. / To be a billionaire. / I don’t know. / Be rich. / Be happy. / Is to learn to do nails and 15 party dresses. / Is to become a teacher. / To help people. / I want to be a cop. / I want to be an undercover cop. / My important dream is to go to college in NAU in Flagstaff. / My important dream is to succeed in life and achieve my dreams (singer). / Would be to be in the NFL to play for the Cardinals. Also a lawyer. / When I dream of me being a dentist or teacher. / To be a chef because I like to cook. / Is to be whatever I want.

Post: My most important dream is to be a teacher. / Is to have a good career. / To be in the NFL and play for the Cardinals. / Billionaire. / To get a car. / To be famous. / Is to be successful. / My most important hope because I can reach higher. / Is to be a professional soccer player. / Play soccer. / Be a NFL player. / Is to be there when my family needs me. / Work on cars. / Is have a good career. / Is reaching it. / My job I really want to be a doctor and a good happy house and family. / Dream. / My dream is to get married. / Is to be a fashion designer. / To be a singer. / Became the best I can be.

One thing I learned in workshop that will help me reach my dream is: Post 100% discovered something new in the workshop.

Thoughts Shared: Never give up. / Be confident. / To feel comfortable. / It is to step back. / Help. / To believe. / Is I got accept there is challenges in life and I got to face them. / Education. / To be respectful and citizenship. / Be respectful. / By getting good grades. / Do what is told to do. / Grades good education. / Try my best. / Can take me somewhere far. / Always be yourself and never give up. / Respect others. / Is that you can paint anything and it will turn out something beautiful. / I will reach my dream. / To be confident. / Have confidence and face my fear.

What did you learn New in the workshop about yourself that you did not know before?

Post 90% discovered something new in the workshop.

Thoughts Shared: Don’t feel fear. / I can achieve my goals. / That I’m important. / Nothing. It’s been fun. / Games. / To not be afraid. / That I’m smart and I can be a leader. / No side bars. / The mirror homework to say what you like about yourself. / Nothing. / Being a leader. / That not everybody is mean always. / Math I can get smarter. / I can accomplish things. / That I can do better things. / I’m different and that’s what matters. / Scared to speak up. / I did not know that I was a leader. / That I love me just the way I am. / I’m scared to speak in front of people. / I am a leader they can see it.

What did you learn New in the workshop about a classmate or friend?

Post 90% discovered something new about classmates or friends in the workshop Thoughts Shared: To do work team. / That Dayanara loves her mom. / To never judge something or someone. / Nothing. / Bully. / Make new friends. / My friend likes to play football. / Who’s important to me and what’s their fear. / To be friendly and to never lie. / Nothing. / Show respect. / They’re nice friends. / Edwin. He’s cool and nice. / Believe first in myself. / Someone I did not know they were leadership. / They can be different and that is good like being shy not shy crazy weird but they are good. / Teamwork. / Some of them are cool. / That they are trustworthy and respect. / Respect. / They’re disrespectful and nice sometimes.

Thanks to The Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture, 25 young lives from Heard Elementary School experienced their Possibilities.

This workshop took place on October 15-17, 2014.

Opening up possibilities for the young minds of Arizona’s youth for a brighter tomorrow.©

“Bridging Possibility” workshops.

Through stories, activities and artwork, Release the Fear’s Workshops will help students to:  Draw One’s Fears and Awaken Hopes and Dreams  Stimulate Creative Listening and Communication  Bridge Understanding  Discuss How Color Affects Us and Our Environment  Awaken Senses  Heighten Visual Awareness of Our Environment  Turn Pain into Possibilities into Purpose.

The students are divided into four groups or teams that they remain with throughout the workshop. In their small group, the students may be asked to complete an activity, to share responses, or to reflect on an exercise. Often times these groups can have students with different beliefs, various backgrounds, and even opposing gang affiliations. The workshop will end with a group created painting to be displayed for the public.

Participant Responses Participants are asked to reflect on several of the activities and then share with the group.

These responses are written in their words without edit.

The following responses are from the students who range in ages from 12-13.

The students are asked to reflect on the following question: How do you think this activity could help you in your daily life (In School, Out of School, or In Your Career)?

Who am I? : Honesty, respect, trust, getting to know each other. You would honest and respectful to your classmates. To get to know each other. Honest to yourself. / A human, trust, honesty, communication. Honesty, making friend, good grade. Getting to know someone before judging.

You’re a respectful person. / Responsibility, honesty, respect. Can be a leader, to make friends. You get to know them. Trustworthy, friendly, successful. / Getting to know each other, trust, honesty.

Being social, trusted by teacher. Getting to know someone, not judge, equal, honest. You would be a leader, confident.

Creative Storytelling: Getting to know each other, creativity, memory. Stopping stereotyping. Making friends. By being respectable to you and others. / Poem, singing, acting, drawing. Being confident.

Build your self-esteem, work as a team. Believe in yourself. / Teamwork, imagination, creativity. Art skills, better friendships. Yes because using teamwork for friends to help you. Different ways to learn. / Teamwork, confidence, creativity, imagination. Work together, sports, projects. Stand up for what you believe, help with problem. Better imagination, teamwork.

Through the Hoops: Teamwork, encourage. It would help by doing team projects. It would help to meet more people. To be more social to get more better jobs. / Believe in yourself. Funny, cool, make friends. Teamwork. Get along with people. / Trust, balance, focus, skill. Reflects, exercising.

Tricking, focusing, overpower. Fun, peace, time. / Teamwork, cooperation, effort. Group project. You need teamwork to accomplish your goal. Have people defend you, have people tell the truth. Have good friends, support from people.

Reflective Take Away Assignment: Self-confidence, bravery, responsibility. To be more confident.

To stick up for what you believe in. To build up self-esteem. / Self-confident. Believe in yourself to get good grades. Joining people that you believe. Being yourself. / Self-confidence, responsibility. Could be successful in school. Braver, confidence. Friends, good life. / Respect, confidence, empowered.

Feel confident. Standing for what you believe in. You’ll be a leader to look up to, hero.

Mirror Work: Look at Yourself in the eyes (ONLY) and tell yourself that you love or like yourself just the way you are.

It makes me feel smart, athletic, and happy. / It makes me feel good. / Happy. / It make me feel good. / Good. / It makes me feel happy about myself and self-confidence. / Proud of myself. / It makes me feel proud of myself. / It makes me feel self-confidence, happy, joyful, love the way I am and happy to be how I am. / It makes me feel happy, good. / It makes me feel confident. / It makes me feel kind of good, confident. / When I look myself in the eyes and say I love yourself I feel like no one can mess my day up and I feel indescribable. / Brave. It makes me feel good no matter what. / Good, happy. / Good. / Good, awesome, great. / I feel like a good person because when I say I love myself just the way I am, it makes me think about the good things I’ve done and have. / Weird and uncomfortable but it makes me feel a bit more confident. / Confident, empowering. / It makes me feel confident. / It makes me feel good. / It makes me feel happy. / Kind, awkward, weird. / Makes me feel happy about myself. / It makes me feel good about myself. / Kind, weird, funny, respected. / It makes me feel weird, cool, and great.

Hero: Who is Your Hero and Why do you think are they important? What characteristics or qualities, would you or do you, look for in a Hero?

Abraham Lincoln. He is important because he stopped slavery. Responsibility, caring, respect, citizenship, and fairness. / She is the most amazing person in my life. Caring, kindness, trustworthiness. / Dad. Because hard working. Happy, brave, responsible. / Kapernick. He never give up. Helpful. / Mom. I think they are important because she is supportive. Nice, supportive, good, intelligent. / Jesus. He is important because when I’m hurt and I pray that he would help me and he would. I look for a hero by their kindness, bravery, helpful, and honesty. / Mom. They are important because they help me things I don’t know. I look for a hero that they believe in their self. / My mom is important because she’s hard-working and brave of her job. Bravery, honesty, caring. / Christ. They are important because god made everyone and everything on the land. I would want to be friendly, always talking about him and caring and to be an angel. / Abraham Lincoln. Because he tried to stop slavery.

Responsible, bravery, helpful. / My mom is my hero because she is very kind, respectful, responsible to everyone she meets. She’s important because she has been taking care of me alone since I was five years old.

I look for kindness, respect, responsible, and caring. / They help out by getting bad people. They are important because they help the community. I look for helpful, caring, and loving. / Mom. My mom is my hero because she works hard and just respect her as a person. She teaches me life lessons. / My hero is MLK because he said all person have equal right no matter what. Helpful, determined. / Grandma because she loves me and I’m a grandmamma boy. Loving and caring. / My mom is my hero because she is nice and smart in tough times.

They are important because they can help you be successful. Confidence, trust. / Ryan Sheckler. He was one of the youngest skaters in the X Games. Because he entertains people. Smart, strong, athletic. / Mom. She always works hard and gives me everything I need. I think my mom is important because without her I wouldn’t be alive. I wouldn’t have clothes or any of the things I have now. Someone who does or tries to do the right

thing, someone who helps you and wants the best for you is a hero to me. / Jhene Aiko – very artistic, never gave up, very inspirational. My mom – very hard working and is always nice and joyful. Because they are very inspirational and they work very hard and never give up. Someone who doesn’t give up but instead keeps on going. / My big cousin Ryan. Because I look up to them. A leader, responsible, understanding, ownership. / My cousin. My cousin is important to me because they look up for me. Responsible, caring, kind. / Abraham Lincoln. He is important because he keeps the state/country together. Kindness, patience, caring, responsible. / My hero is my mom. Because she is a hard worker. / Ronnie Radke. I think he is important because his music is really good and I love his band. Funny, smart, nice, loud, and good at making lyrics. / Goku. Saving the earth and not giving up. Saving the earth. / My hero is my brother because he has confidence in himself.

Helpful, responsible, and brave. / Dad. Because he is really nice to other people who he doesn’t know.

Respectful, kind. / Kobe Bryant. They are important because he is good at basketball. Characteristics or qualities that a hero should have is being good at something, inspiring, and if someone wants to be you.

Seeing Beyond: Senses, knowledge, prior knowledge. Writing, language, science, math, describing, more thought process. To be more creative. / Used our senses. Increases your writing skills in writing, helps communicate. Helps communicate and build relationship. / Senses, focus, language.

Science because they let you use your mind. Mind using, memory. / That I should be confident and never let myself feel bad. Prior knowledge in math, science, language arts because you’re using things you know. You need prior knowledge to get your good grades and investigations.

Drawing one’s Fear’s, Hopes and Dreams and Sharing: Creativity, being successful. Following your dreams. Standing up to yourself and others. By being confident. / Self confidence, honesty, thinking. Believing in yourself, creativity. Knowing each other much better. To make your dreams come true. / Creative, self confidence, thinking. Art, speaking in front of others. Standing up to each other. Speaking in front of others. / Thinking, creative, memory. Good grades, help on tests, art.

Think before doing something, make good decisions. Artistic, do good in school.

Reflective Take Away Assignment: Good to bad, miracles, confident. To get friends with those stories. By being more self-confident. / Creativity, self-confidence. Making new friends, speak up. By speaking up. / Thinking, creative. In reading, brave. You’re going to be successful in life. / Don’t judge before you do, try new things. Make friends, schoolwork. Not judge future jobs, have friends.

Describe a time when you had an experience that you perceived (thought/saw) as negative, but through time or something you did, you perceived (thought/saw) the experience as a positive one.

One day my mom was driving me to school and I saw magnet that I hate then I saw beard that I like. / My fear is when my friend move country or move away later we talk on phone and talk how greatful the place is. / When my sister had a fight and she did the girl up but come to find out the girl started it first. / I’m going to this school. / I was bored on the first day of school because I don’t know anyone, then when I get to know everyone I was happy. / I saw someone get on the Megatron and I thought it was scary, but then I faced my fear and I got on it. / The first thing I thought I saw the grudge in my closet, but later on that day I checked what it was and it was just a toy human. That’s when I knew I was seeing things. / In the beginning, I got bad grades. But then I changed it to fabulous grades. / When I went to Mexico for the first time I thought it was ugly and I wanted to go back home then after like a month I started liking it. / One day my day was barking at me and he kept doing it but it turned out he just wanted attention. / An experience I thought was negative is that I had moved school and then saw it as positive. / There was a time when I got bit by a dog when I was 8 years old and I got bit on the leg. And the positive is that I did not get rabies. / One time I perceived that I saw a ghost but then

after more days later I looked back then I said that I was lucky to see a ghost. / The time when I had an experience that I perceived was when I heard something scary. Then later on I was lucky because I heard something scary. / When I came to this school I thought it was way different from my old school.

I thought people were mean but they turned out really nice and the teachers too. / When I went to another school in 5th grade I was scared. But then I met some people and they were nice and teachers and I liked it. / I lied but then I finally told the truth and felt good. / So when I got into apls I thought it was really boring then through time I learned that it’s a education thing to be into and should be proud of how I got into alps. / I saw somebody dive into a foam pit, then they said that the foam is soft and you can’t get hurt. / When I came into 7th grade I was scared but it became cool. / One day my cat got lost in an unfamiliar house and I cried. I thought she left the house so I checked outside and inside the house. I cried and thought bad and then I heard a meow. I found her and was happy. / Well one day my grandma died but later my half sister was born the next day. It was a miracle. / When I first came to Heard, I was scared because it was a new school. Then a year later me and my BFF are best friends. I’m also glad I met two other friends. / One day I was at my cousin’s house. She has a little Chihuahua. I was only 4 years old. I pet the dog while he was trying to eat and he bit me. I never again attempted to do so because I cried a lot that day. / At first I could not ride my bike so my parents had to take turns on who was going to push me but with a little practice I was able to ride my bike.

Yes/No: Yes you can do everything. To believe you can do it. Believe. A good person.

Color: Creativity. To be more creative. Get cooler jobs. / Colors are everywhere. Make new friends. Keep on going. / That color can have different meaning. Creative. Because you know no matter what you’re an artist. / Perseverance, memory. Art, thinking. Never give up.

Overall, something New about Self or Others in your Group: We all learned that we can do everything.

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Release the Fear, Inc. ® PO Box 3815 Phoenix, AZ 85030 www.releasethefear.org 602-818 6959

Funded By: The Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture Location: Heard Elementary School %Male 48

%Female 52

Dates: October 15-17, 2014

Ages 12-13

Do you think others (Kids my age, older & younger, Adults) have the same Fear as I do?

Pre %YES 64 %NO 32 %Other 4 Post %YES 84 %NO 16 %Other 0 Rate this statement: You feel comfortable speaking in front of others.

Pre % Not at all 12 % Sometimes 64 % All the Time 24 Post % Not at all 8 % Sometimes 68 % All the Time 24 Rate this statement: I believe I can make my hopes and/or dreams come true.

Pre % Not at all 0 % Sometimes 64 % All the Time 32 %No Answer 4 Post % Not at all 0 % Sometimes 60 % All the Time 36 %No Answer 4 Rate this statement: I respect my own decisions even when dealing with peer pressure.

Pre % Not at all 0 % Sometimes 60 % All the Time 40 Post % Not at all 0 % Sometimes 48 % All the Time 52 Complete this statement: I am trustworthy and see myself as a __. Follower, Equal, Leader Pre % Follower 8 % Equal 68 % Leader 16 Post % Follower 8 % Equal 64 % Leader 28 Have you ever been bullied? % Yes 48 % No 52 Have you ever seen someone being bullied? % Yes 56 % No 44 Did you do anything? % Yes 60 % No 28 % No Answer 12 Did you learn something in the workshop that will help you deal with bullying?

Post % Yes 100 % No 0 % No Answer 0 Thoughts Shared: Think before you do something you might regret. / Yes, because you can be honest. / Sometime sticking up for yourself is good. / To have confidence. / Self-confidence. / How to prevent it. / Yes because you will know how to stop it. / Be yourself. / To help. / Standing up for yourself. / With teamwork your friends can defend you. / Be strong. / That it’s okay to stand up for yourself. / Be self confident. / Be more confident. / Because you will be confident now. / Make bullying stop.

After attending the character education workshop and learning about compassion, if you saw someone be bullied, would you do something?

Post % Yes 96 % No 4 % No Answer 0 Thoughts Shared: I would try to stop them or tell a teacher. / No, because I could be involved too. / I would say something to a grown person. / I would call an adult. / I would break the bullied. / Break it up. / I would do something because it’s not fair for them. / It’s not fair. / Yes because I don’t like it. / Because they might need help. / Yes because I feel more brave. / Because that’s mean. / I would stand up for him and tell an adult. / Speak up. / I would tell a teacher. / Because they taught us we’re not alone. / Because my friends are friendly to me.

Did you learn any skills, such as respect or responsibility, to help you make your own decisions not based on Peer Pressure?

Post % Yes 96 % No 4 % No Answer 0 Thoughts Shared: Your decisions are more important than you think. / No, because there is no way. / I did you own decisions are based. / Respect. / I feel better now. / Do well. / Be yourself. / Yes it’s my choice. / Yes I learned respect. / I just need to be myself. / Cause I am. / Doing the right thing even when standing down. / Like stuff. / Don’t do something you know is wrong. / Because you have confidence in what you believe. / To respect teachers.

What do you think about color?

What % gave more thought and shared them about color.

Pre 100% Post 100% Thoughts Shared: Pre: Color is very beautiful. It expresses the artist’s mood or feeling. / I think color is a way to express your feelings like the colors you might see on a painting. / What I think about color is I think color is beautiful. / I think that color has its own meaning. / I love color. / I never really thought about color. / I think color is about being facing. / I think color is all about caring. / It’s awesome. / I think color means mood of the picture or painting. / I like color because it help our world a better place. / I love color it makes us happy and sad. / My favorite color is black. / I’ve never thought about color. / No because I don’t. / Colors are beautiful. They are everywhere. / Dark. / I only like one color because it’s really pretty. / I think that color is important because you couldn’t see without it. / I think color makes everything bright and colorful. / I love it. / I love color. / What I think about color is that it brings more sense to the things we have. / I love coloring cause it’s very fun. Favorite color purple. / Color is so pretty and I love color. I never thought about color. / I think that there are a lot of types of colors. There’s light colors and dark colors. / I think colors (blue) is my favorite color, and that is all I think about. / I think color and is beautiful and you could use it to expres how you feel that day. / What I think about color is it’s really pretty.

Post: Color is many things, mostly shows feeling. / Color is with music. / Color expresses your feelings. / That the colors are very beautiful. / That colors are beautiful and interesting. / Color is cool. / I learned that you can see color in music. / That the lightest colors are good and the darker colors are evil. / Colors are everywhere. / Combine to make new color. / It’s really cool. / Color has its own meaning and sense. / I learned about color is color is everywhere even music. / It beautiful. / It’s beautiful. / That there I learned that colors go with mood. / I think it better than I thought. / I learned color is a way to express yourself. / That colors can other colors. / Colors has many feelings. / That they can mix to make a color. / It’s important. / I still think I just think/see black. / I think it expresses how you feel. / Color can form and make a new color. / One color can turn into many colors.

My most important hope or dream is. . .

What % gave more thought to their Dreams becoming reality.

Pre 96% Post 100% Thoughts Shared: Pre: My most important dream is to take care of family in Mexico and here. / I don’t think I have one. / My most important dream is to be in the Air Force. / My most important dream is to be an FBI or SWAT agent. / My most important dream is to be a chef. / Is to grow up to be a successful doctor. / My important dream is to make it to the soccer professional. / I don’t think I have a important dream or hope because I have more than one. / Be able to make my own video games. / My most important dream is to go to the U.S. Air Force. / I don’t have one yet. / Is to be an NFL player. / My most important dream is to have lots of fun with all my friends. / Yes because I do. / My most important hope or dream is becoming a great singer and songwriter. / Singing, drawings. / I want to become a singer. / To be in the NBA. / My most important dream is to be a painter. / To make it in the NFL. / Is to be in the Army. / My most important dream is to be in the Marines. / Is to be a cook for famous people. / My dream is to work on cars and a veterinarian. / My dream is to be a veterinarian and to be a artist or singer. / My dream is to be a veterinarian and a teacher or artist. / My important hope and dream is to be successful when I get older. / I want to be a fire fighter.

Post: My most important dream is that I grow up to have a good job and a loving family. / My dream is to be a Marine. / Is to be a cook and have a very good life. / Being someone in life. / Are being someone in life and to travel around the world in some place. / Is to be rich. / My important dream is to be a veterinarian. / To be in the NBA. / Is to become a singer and songwriter. / To follow. / To become a Army. / My most important dream is to be a cop/FBI/SWAT. / The most important dream is to go to Guatemala to meet my aunts and cousins. / Is to make it in the NFL. / To be in the Army. / Being a pro skateboarder. / Is to be more self-confident. / I want to have a clothes store. / To be a doctor. / Is that I’m going to become a doctor. / Be a soccer player. / Creating video games. / To become a singer. / To be successful in life or be in the Air Force. / Is to be a president. / To be a nurse.

One thing I learned in workshop that will help me reach my dream is: Post 100% discovered something new in the workshop.

Thoughts Shared: Anything is possible if you believe and work hard. / Self confidence. / Is try to hear the whole story. / Is stop being shy. / Are you can do anything even if you’re shy. / Is confidence. / One thing getting better grades and helping other people. / One thing I learned is to never give up. / To believe in myself. / To speak up. / One thing I learned is to always keep going forward never go back. / One thing I learned to reach my dream is believe in yourself. / Keep on going. / I could do it. / Is responsibility and respect. / I just have to keep trying and I will be able to reach it. / To be myself. / Is to never give up. / You can do anything and everything. / Respect, fairness. / Self-confident. / Never stop. / Confidence because I might have to speak make and I know I’m not alone. / You should take turns painting. / Don’t give up.

What did you learn New in the workshop about yourself that you did not know before?

Post 100% discovered something new in the workshop.

Thoughts Shared: I found out that I’m not the only one with my fears. / Honesty. / It’s a way to be different. / That I can believe in myself. / Not to be shy or anything like that. / That I can present. / I knew that there are colors wherever. / A thing that I learned is to have more self confidence when you get up and speak. / I can talk to the crowd. / What I can do. / That I know how to color. / I have

some compassion and love for people. / Be honest. / To be yourself. / I could do something. I didn’t believe I could do it. / I learned that I’m on at speaking in front of people. / I learned that I could talk comfortable in class. / I learned that I am capable to be a leader. / That people have the same fears as I do. / That I have a purpose in life and I’m special in my own way. / That I am a good leader. / Being cool. / That I can speak louder. / My confidence. / I shared with my friends. / Some people have the same fear.

What did you learn New in the workshop about a classmate or friend?

Post 96% discovered something new about classmates or friends in the workshop Thoughts Shared: I learned that my friend has a similar fear as mine. / Self confidence. / Some have the same fear as me wow! / That they are shy to talk in front of people. / To not be shy about yourself. / They are nice. / I learn that people well some are shy to talk in front. / What I learned from a classmate is don’t be afraid to be doing what you’re going to do. / A lot about their fear and where they been. / What they can do. / They could be kind. / They care about people, loving. / Make new friends. / They’re like family. / They’re like family. / What I learned about one of my classmates is they like to sleep. / That their fear is losing their mother just like me. / I learned that I and other students have similarities. / Same fears that I got. / That we have some of the same dreams. / That they’re nice. / ? / That they have a lot in common. / Some similarities and things that are the same. / They are helpful and friendly, or sharing. / Same fear as me.

Inspiring & empowering kids with the tools to make better life choices . . .

Thanks to The Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture, 17 young lives from Larry Kennedy Elementary School experienced their Possibilities.

This workshop took place on December 15-17, 2014.

Opening up possibilities for the young minds of Arizona’s youth for a brighter tomorrow.©

“Bridging Possibility” workshops.

Through stories, activities and artwork, Release the Fear’s Workshops will help students to:  Draw One’s Fears and Awaken Hopes and Dreams  Stimulate Creative Listening and Communication  Bridge Understanding  Discuss How Color Affects Us and Our Environment  Awaken Senses  Heighten Visual Awareness of Our Environment  Turn Pain into Possibilities into Purpose.

The students are divided into four groups or teams that they remain with throughout the workshop. In their small group, the students may be asked to complete an activity, to share responses, or to reflect on an exercise. Often times these groups can have students with different beliefs, various backgrounds, and even opposing gang affiliations. The workshop will end with a group created painting to be displayed for the public.

Participant Responses Participants are asked to reflect on several of the activities and then share with the group.

These responses are written in their words without edit.

The following responses are from the students who range in ages from 11-14.

The students are asked to reflect on the following question: How do you think this activity could help you in your daily life (In School, Out of School, or In Your Career)?

Who am I? : Communication, honesty, confidence. Tell the truth, talk to teachers. Boys are good at playing sports. Talk to people, more social. / Getting to know people, to have expectations. To make new friends. Meeting new people with different skills. Goals and not get in trouble. / We learned more about each other. It will apply in school to meet new friends. Know everyone’s good qualities. Make friends, include others. / I learned how to be confident and speak up. The tools I learned are how to be a good listener and speak up. When I am playing a game, listening, writing, talking, conversation.

Getting to know them. Become a better person, inventions, confidence.

Creative Storytelling: By ignoring them. / To use pictures to remember things. To help have more creative answers. Express feelings of someone being bullied. To express yourself for an interview. / We learned that there are different passages in life. To communicate in a creative way. How creative you are. / How to be creative and memorization, listen better. Express your feelings to show how we can stop bullying. To stop bullying to become creative, write down your feelings.

Reflective Take Away Assignment: Always gonna hope with that to be doctor. To give up great idea.

I feel get power. It help you to understand teacher. / Sight and talking, listening, building confidence.

Being able to communicate with your teacher. By being given another solution. Interviewed and have a chance of getting the job. / We used sense of hearing and eyesight. Helps you understand you peers. It will help us ignore peer pressure. It will apply in life by saying not no to peer pressure. / We use 5 senses. We used the 5 senses. Confidence and encourage. You going to work with others and communicate.

Mirror Work: Look at Yourself in the eyes (ONLY) and tell yourself that you love or like yourself just the way you are.

It makes me feel weird. / It makes me feel good and happy. / It makes me feel kind of weird. / I love the way am I for my eyes. / It makes me feel good. / Joyful, happy, and great. / How it makes me feel is that it makes me feel calm and cool. / Great about myself and I feel good. / It makes me feel good about myself. / It makes me feel good. / Good. / Confident makes me feel happy and ready for anything coming my way. / It makes me have confidence and feel proud about myself. / It makes me feel good, happy.

Hero: Who is Your Hero and Why do you think are they important? What characteristics or qualities, would you or do you, look for in a Hero?

Aolaxmena. They are important to me because they are cool. / Because they help you so you won’t be sad.

Batman. / Superman. Because they are awesome. Cool, smart. / My mom because she helps me on my stuff.

I think she’s important because she’s the best mom ever. My characteristics are shy, funny, and lazy, and always kind and mean. / My hero is mom because she do everything to me and my mom she never tell me a search things to me. That is my hero mom. Because mom she real take care of me since I was a little baby.

Good things. / My teacher is my hero. They’re important because he helps me have confidence. Respect, responsibility, funny, smart, cool, fairness. / Mom. She raised me. To make people happy and to safe them in a special way. / My dad is important to me. He helps around the house and helps us with school stuff.

Because he can help and I love him. Respect, responsible, smart, what I look for. That is my dad. / My dad.

Because they take care of me. Strong, fast, and nice. / Animals are my heroes because they have so many different qualities and looks just like humans and are survivors and show us important things and give us company. They are important because they show us humans important thing we would never find by ourselves.

They have to do something that helps humanity. / Because she loves me. I look for love and caring. / My uncle. Because he is a good example. Caring, respect, trustworthiness. / Cat Woman is my hero. She has ability and she is smart and brave. She is brave and smart and that is why she is important to me. Smart, bravery, ability and their own mind and sense of humor. / Mom, dad. I think they are important because they encourage me. A characteristic that I look for in a hero is to be nice, kind, and smart. / Because they are nice.

Smart, useful, kind.

Drawing one’s Fear’s, Hopes and Dreams and Sharing: To use confidence. Release your fears. It could teach a bully to be nice. Chase your dream. / People have the same fears and being confident.

When you have to present a project, to do something about it. To step up to the bully and tell the teacher. On a job interview and get good friends. / Confidence, 5 sense, braveness, think. Release fears, emotions, to perform. To stand up to bullying, do something about it. To chance dream, face fear, to never forget skills. / Confidence, 5 senses, fear, dream, memory, shareness, brave. To release your fears and emotions to perform. By standing up to bullies and help bullies change. To present in future years, to get a job by a presentation, then if you own a business, you could meet with other people.

Reflective Take Away Assignment: If someone trust you at home, you too have when. To trust him.

I will apply in your job. / Being trustworthy with our parents/people. You can trust your teachers and be nice. When your teacher give you a job to do, you accept it. You can be trustworthy with your family. In a job when you’re given some paperwork and you don’t bring it back you get a consequence. / We learned that if you trust someone, it will bring up to something good. It will apply in school when a teacher send you to get his. I will apply in life when you get a job and they give you paperwork you have to return it. / I learned communication skills, made us feel good, be more trustworthy. 5 senses believing in yourself. Help you in your job. Give back money to the cashier if they give you extra money. To trust your friends and people around the school you can do more stuff cause you won’t do nothing bad. Opportunity you can do more stuff, trustworthy.

Write about a time when you were trustworthy or caring and helped someone else in a positive way. How did it feel afterward?

One time I helped my mom dry the dishes. / One time I was truthful is that I owed some 50 cents and I gave it to them. / When my cousin fell I picked her up and took her to my aunt. It felt good knowing she was okay. The experience was that I put ice on her knee. / The one time I was caring was when my little brother fell from the bed and I told my mom. / I was caring when my mom got sick. I took care of her. Afterward I felt incredible and joyful. The experience was incredible. / I was caring when my brother fell and hurt his knee. I took him inside and put on a bandage and played football with him. / Once I was taking care of my little brothers. I just let them do whatever but not to fight. Then when my dad came home, I felt good after babysitting. I felt calm and relaxed. / I feel like a happy boy for caring for the others it just make me feel good about myself and is just great. / A time when I was trustworthy and caring is when I needed to remember to feed and give water to my dog for a month while my grandparents were away from home. / I was trustworthy when I told my mom that I got in trouble. I felt good. / I help my young brother when he want to cross the road and he say thanks uncle. / It felt weird because the lady told me to watch her cart and I was alone with my friend standing there while she was going to the restroom and people were just staring. / I was caring with an old lady. I hold the door for her. I felt good. / A time when I was trustworthy was when I told my parents I got in a fight. A time when I was caring was when I helped out my mom and dad. I helped out my mom with the dinner and I felt good. / I helped an old lady cross the street and I felt happy I helped someone. / One time when I was trustworthy was when my teacher asked me to take something to her classroom, so she gave me her keys and I did what she asked me to do. / One time I was caring was when I said thank you to someone when someone else was bullying me. It made me feel safe. / One time at my old school on the first day I helped a girl when she feel and her knee was bloody. So I helped her up to the nurse. Afterward I felt happy to help her but after that she was mean to me. / My cousin was walking downstairs crying and I picked him up and he laid on my chest. I felt good afterwards.

Funded By: The Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture Dates: December 15-17, 2014 Location: Larry Kennedy Elementary %Male 41

%Female 59

Ages 11-14

Do you think others (Kids my age, older & younger, Adults) have the same Fear as I do?

Pre %YES 82 %NO 18 %Other 0 Post %YES 76 %NO 24 %Other 0 Rate this statement: You feel comfortable speaking in front of others.

Pre % Not at all 18 % Sometimes 70 % All the Time 12 % No Answer 0 Post % Not at all 24 % Sometimes 52 % All the Time 18 % No Answer 6 Rate this statement: I believe I can make my hopes and/or dreams come true.

Pre % Not at all 0 % Sometimes 76 % All the Time 24 Post % Not at all 0 % Sometimes 69 % All the Time 31 Rate this statement: I respect my own decisions even when dealing with peer pressure.

Pre % Not at all 0 % Sometimes 70 % All the Time 24 % No Answer 6 Post % Not at all 12 % Sometimes 59 % All the Time 31 % No Answer 0 Complete this statement: I am trustworthy and see myself as a __. Follower, Equal, Leader Pre % Follower 31 % Equal 35 % Leader 35 Post % Follower 6 % Equal 47 % Leader 47 Have you ever been bullied? % Yes 88 % No 12 Have you ever seen someone being bullied? % Yes 76 % No 18 % No Answer 12 Did you do anything? % Yes 76 % No 6 % No Answer 18 Did you learn something in the workshop that will help you deal with bullying?

Post % Yes 76 % No 12 % No Answer 12 Thoughts Shared: To ignore it. / To have confidence. / To be able to stand up to one. / Yes because you can understand. / I learned that everyone has different fears. / Yes to speak up. / Have confidence and stick up. / I didn’t learn nothing. / Standing up to bullies. / To stand up to bullies. / I learned to believe in myself and stand up the bullying. / Let them draw. / To stop bullying people. / I stand up for them. / To have confidence in myself.

After attending the character education workshop and learning about compassion, if you saw someone be bullied, would you do something?

Post % Yes 94 % No 6 % No Answer 0 Thoughts Shared: Stand up to the bully. / Help. / I would help and stand up for them. / Yes because I don’t want nothing to happen to them. / Because I might get bullied. / I would help them/speak up. / I would stick up for them. / I will defend them. / Stand up to the bully. / Yes because I know how to do it. / I would tell them to stop if they continued I would tell an adult. / Because it’s not nice. / I would make him stop. / I’ll tell them to stop. / I would tell the bully to stop.

Did you learn any skills, such as respect or responsibility, to help you make your own decisions not based on Peer Pressure?

Post % Yes 69 % No 31 % No Answer 0 Thoughts Shared: Also to ignore it. / To ignore. / I learned that you need to release the fear. / I learned skill of telling the truth. / Draw and think. / I learn to make my own decisions. / You love to just focus. / To think first. / Make good decisions.

What do you think about color?

What % gave more thought and shared them about color.

Pre 82% Post 100% Thoughts Shared: Pre: I never thought about it. / Nothing. / What I think about color is that it is bright and that it is colorful and pretty. / I think about color because it type of peoples. / I don’t care about color. I get along with any type of people. / I love color. / Color is beautiful cause there is pretty stuff. / I like color because I like to draw and color. / Yes like what color I need to draw. / Yes I have thought about color. I think we need more color. / I have never thought about color. / I think about colors in symbols. / I think about color. It’s perfect, but we should add more. / Yes I have thought about color.

I think we need more color. / No I haven’t thought about color. / I think color is important because without it, everything would be dull and boring. / They are beautiful and cool. / I love pink and black.

They both go together so well.

Post: I think that color is needed in this school. / That it doesn’t matter. / I think color is everywhere I see and think. / I think it needs a little more. / I learned that color can clean lots of things. / Color has music and also many of things do. / Color is beautiful. / I like it and color is emotion. / I think it need a little more. / To pick 2 colors and shade to your paper. / Color is cool because I love colors. / How to use color for a background. / I think color is beautiful. / I think color is beautiful. / I think of music. / That is beautiful. / Nothing wrong with that. / I still love pink and black. They go together so well. / What to think. / They look like symbols.

My most important hope or dream is. . .

What % gave more thought to their Dreams becoming reality.

Pre 94% Post 100% Thoughts Shared: Pre: My most important dream is to get a career and to be a singer. / To be leader. / My dream is that I want to be a mechanic to raise money. / My most important hope or dream is to stop bullied other. / My most important dream is if bully stopped. / I want to have people who care and understand me. / My dream and hope is to meet One Direction. Harry Styles only him. / My dream is to stop bullying. / That everybody would get along. / I dream to be a teacher. / My most important dream is to become an eye doctor or dentist. / I hope to get a career one day. / My most hope is to get a career. / My most important hope is peace. / I hope to have world peace. / I want to be a vet or an artist or singer. / My little sister to grow up happy and loved by all. / Dreams. / My dream is to be a soccer player. / My most important hope is to find the mysteries of the world.

Post: My most important is to be a singer. / To be a dentist. / To be an artist and have my art in a museum. / My future I want to be is a doctor. / To build robots. / Is to be a mechanic. / Is to be a vet. / To be in robotics. / I want to be a vet and open my business. / My most important future to be a doctor. / My dream is to be a SWAT. / To go to college. / Is to be important. / Meeting Harry Styles. / It to find the one. / My dream is to be a soccer player. / Is to be with my family. / To find the mysteries of the world. / To be a singer. / To go to Mexico, Flagstaff.

One thing I learned in workshop that will help me reach my dream is: Post 94% discovered something new in the workshop.

Thoughts Shared: Is to think. / To never give up. / One thing that can help me accomplish my dreams is being confident. / Is that I could talk to people more. / I learned that art can make things happier. / In a meeting, you can express what it is about. / IDK. / So you don’t forget. / I didn’t know what was peer pressure. / I learned about color and what I fear and memory. / Yes because it can help me remember stuff. / To speak up to/for others. / Never give up. / Believe. / Are don’t give up. / Yes because it help. / Just remember stuff. / I think art is the right way to work through problems. / To be nice. / The color.

What did you learn New in the workshop about yourself that you did not know before?

Post 88% discovered something new in the workshop.

Thoughts Shared: Yes I learn something new about myself. / That I am beautiful. / Yes, that I can express my feelings through art. / Is that I don’t have to be scared anymore. / I learned that I am a good artist. / No, not really. / Yes to be creative. / It can help you to tell yourself know what you want. / I learn not to be scared talking in front of people. / Yes I learn about myself that I did not know. / That I am special. / I can express myself more. / I learned that I will do great things. / Give up. / That you can find a way to help people. / No I didn’t know that art could help you. / I learned to not be afraid to speak in front of other people. / I learned a new way to express myself. / Yes to be good. / Yes, I learned about others and love.

What did you learn New in the workshop about a classmate or friend?

Post 82% discovered something new about classmates or friends in the workshop Thoughts Shared: I learned that Gisele is pretty. / Jasmine is nice and kind. / That they have the same fears as me. / Is that you need to talk more. / That he is artistic. / That she has the same fear as me. / About their family. / I learned that it doesn’t matter what is outside. / I learn how to make and give the respectful to them. / That my classmates believe in me. / New people can make people different. / I learned that everyone has fears. / Everyone is respectful. / That they speak different languages. / They’re scared to die. / Nothing. / Nothing. / To be nice. / Jasmin.

Inspiring & empowering kids with the tools to make better life choices . . .

Thanks to Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture, 21 young lives from Excelencia Elementary School experienced their Possibilities.

This workshop took place on February 17-20, 2015.

Opening up possibilities for the young minds of Arizona’s youth for a brighter tomorrow.©

“Bridging Possibility” workshops.

Through stories, activities and artwork, Release the Fear’s Workshops will help students to:  Draw One’s Fears and Awaken Hopes and Dreams  Stimulate Creative Listening and Communication  Bridge Understanding  Discuss How Color Affects Us and Our Environment  Awaken Senses  Heighten Visual Awareness of Our Environment  Turn Pain into Possibilities into Purpose.

The students are divided into four groups or teams that they remain with throughout the workshop. In their small group, the students may be asked to complete an activity, to share responses, or to reflect on an exercise. Often times these groups can have students with different beliefs, various backgrounds, and even opposing gang affiliations. The workshop will end with a group created painting to be displayed for the public.

Participant Responses Participants are asked to reflect on several of the activities and then share with the group.

These responses are written in their words without edit.

The following responses are from the students who range in ages from 12-14.

The students are asked to reflect on the following question: How do you think this activity could help you in your daily life (In School, Out of School, or In Your Career)?

Who am I? : To be creative and respectful. What people like. It would build friendship. / Skills learned is to listen and not kick the ball. You would ask questions. It is not true what you hear. It will give you confidence, your body language. Speak up. / People, humans. Not all the people are not same. So you will not judge too quick. / To be responsible. To include them. Get through our dreams.

Creative Storytelling: They’ll be nice.

Through the Hoops: Be nice to each other. By being kind or being helpful, communication. By no matter what, always be kind. Appreciating ourself or communicating. / To make your own path. Going around. Telling their feelings. That skill will help you by making your own path. Nothing can get in your way. / Get through our dreams. Keep on trying when it’s hard. Work together. Teamwork and bonding.

Reflective Take Away Assignment: Feeling ugly but then you feel good. / Make your mistakes better. Remind the mistakes that we did. What your role model done. This tool builds character. / Feel happy, self confidence. To not let people let you down. It will calm you down. / Feel good about yourself. Be yourself.

Mirror Work: Look at Yourself in the eyes (ONLY) and tell yourself that you love or like yourself just the way you are.

Like a person. A girl? / Happy. / It makes me feel as if I’m lying to myself. It makes me feel uglier than what I am. / It made me feel important, confident, and happiness. / This makes me feel proud in who I am. / Beautiful, amazing, shy. / This makes me feel more self-confident. / Pretty, but sometimes I feel I look ugly. / It makes me feel happy. / It’s brown and I feel that I’m lonely. I have no friends. I feel confident and nice. / It makes me feel good. / It makes me feel confident and successful.

Hero: Who is Your Hero and Why do you think are they important? What characteristics or qualities, would you or do you, look for in a Hero?

My dad. He’s there when I need him and when something’s wrong or I’m sad he brings me up. He’s there to protect me, to show me new things. He protects me. He’s my hero. Because I love him and he’s there for me when I need him. / My mom. She help me when I need help. My mom because she help me that homework.

Batman. / Cause they been there for me. They made me who I am. To give a good example for me. / Family. / They are important because they care about me. Characteristics I look in a hero are helpful, respectful, caring person, fun, and lovely. / My mom is important to me because she helps me and I can depend on her for everything and she loves me. She is important because she helps me, I can depend on her and she loves me.

Which characteristics and qualities I look in a hero is bright, happiness, and shows that they really love me. / My mom is important because she gave me a life. What I look in a hero is they will always protect you no matter what. / My big brother. Because they are important. Muscles and perseverance. / My mom because she is always working hard and always working just for us. Loyalty. / My dad. My dad is my hero because he is always there for me or saves me. Cause I love him so much. Saving people. / Captain America. Because he was the first superhero. Everything. / I have no friends or heroes in here. Well they could help you or preserve you with anything. No emotion for the hero or I. / Superman. He saves people. Kind, helpful. / They are important because they inspire me. What I look for in a hero is what they faced in life how they achieve it.

Seeing Beyond: Drawing skills, thinking skills. You will that you have professional reputation.

Drawing one’s Fear’s, Hopes and Dreams and Sharing: Help others change. To be kind. By keeping your bad comments to yourself. Stop bullying. / How to make our path. Repeat the notes.

To stand up for them. To tell the truth. / How it works in school is to be more friendly. To remind yourself. Focusing on your grade. If the bully is a normal person. By speaking up. Want me to be successful in life. / We learned to be successful. So we cannot give up. To be confident. To get through our fears and future.

Reflective Take Away Assignment: To speak up. Not be nervous and tell the truth. When you are singing or making a movie.

Describe a time when you had an experience that you perceived (thought/saw) as negative, but through time or something you did, you perceived (thought/saw) the experience as a positive one.

One day I was forced to create paper figures. During the whole time I was mad and lazy to do it. But the end result made me realize that creating figures was actually cool. / I felt awkward and at the end, I felt happy talking in class. / I saw when my brother would always mess with me but it was to make me tougher. / When I thought negative was when I would cut my wrist where the veins are at. I did that because I would get called fat and pimple face and you’re ugly. But what stop me from doing that was my friend and they said positive stuff to me and I stopped. / I felt at the beginning not happy because I did not like to speak up in the class. At the end I felt happy because I can speak up and when I speak up, I felt sincere. / At the beginning I felt cool and awesome but I felt sad because I was

scared to go to school. When I changed I felt happy for school. / The negative I saw was when the dog was giving me a bad attitude, but the positive is when I was treating the dog right and that was the difference of the dog. / I feel different by talking in class a lot not less because after I did not want to talk now I do a lot of talking. / Life isn’t perfect so up and downs. / Life is not always perfect there’s difficulties too. / Something I had an experienced on was people bullying me and then I got tired of it and stood up for myself. It made me feel good about myself. / I felt shy to talk in front of the class but now it changed and I felt good of myself talking. / When I shot a 3 pointer and thought I was gonna make it but I didn’t. / I was bad. I did not listen to my mom. But I do not do that anymore. / I saw a negative horse playing but through time I saw the experience as a positive one. / A friend I had I though was a bad person but then in time he turned out to be a good guy. / I remember when I was mad because I got grounded and I realized that it was my punishment so I didn’t get mad anymore.

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Funded By: Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture Location: Excelencia Elementary School %Male 52

%Female 48

Dates: February 17-20, 2015

Ages 12-14

Do you think others (Kids my age, older & younger, Adults) have the same Fear as I do?

Pre %YES 62 %NO 33 %Other 5 Post %YES 62 %NO 33 %Other 5 Rate this statement: You feel comfortable speaking in front of others.

Pre % Not at all 9 % Sometimes 67 % All the Time 24 % No Answer 9 Post % Not at all 14 % Sometimes 43 % All the Time 43 % No Answer 9 Rate this statement: I believe I can make my hopes and/or dreams come true.

Pre % Not at all 5 % Sometimes 71 % All the Time 24 Post % Not at all 0 % Sometimes 71 % All the Time 29 Rate this statement: I respect my own decisions even when dealing with peer pressure.

Pre % Not at all 14 % Sometimes 62 % All the Time 19 % No Answer 9 Post % Not at all 19 % Sometimes 57 % All the Time 24 % No Answer 9 Complete this statement: I am trustworthy and see myself as a __. Follower, Equal, Leader Pre % Follower 9 % Equal 48 % Leader 43 Post % Follower 5 % Equal 52 % Leader 43 Have you ever been bullied? % Yes 67 % No 33 Have you ever seen someone being bullied? % Yes 67 % No 33 Did you do anything? % Yes 52 % No 39 % No Answer 9 Did you learn something in the workshop that will help you deal with bullying?

Post % Yes 86 % No 9 % No Answer 5 Thoughts Shared: You have to stand up. / I learn that will tell the truth. / To stand up for myself. / To stand up for myself. / Do something. / It will help you by saying stop bullying and tell a teacher. / How to talk back. / We really didn’t focus on bullying. / Yes because I can help others. / It show me that to speak up or stand up. / You could stand up to them. / To stop bullying. / Yes speak up. / Yes because I need to stand up for bullying. / Because we could stand up to ourself. / Cause we learn many things. / Yes because you could just brush it off.

After attending the character education workshop and learning about compassion, if you saw someone be bullied, would you do something?

Post % Yes 91 % No 9 % No Answer 0 Thoughts Shared: I would defend them. / I will do to speak up. / They would attack me. / To man up or stand up for someone. / Yes, but I did not see a bully, but if I did I would tell him to stop. / Yes because it can be a friend. / Yes I would because it would be the right thing. / Yes because I can help

if they’re feeling lonely. / I’ll go to talk with victim that is getting bully and to back off. / I would because I’ve learned new things. / To say stop it. / I would tell the kid to back off. / I would say something. / Because everybody is equal. / Cause I learn new stuff. / Yes because I don’t think it’s right. / Because it is the right thing.

Did you learn any skills, such as respect or responsibility, to help you make your own decisions not based on Peer Pressure?

Post % Yes 76 % No 24 % No Answer 0 Thoughts Shared: That you have to go on your own path and nothing in your way. / Yes by acting different. / To not give up. / I was still be my answer. / Yes because it can be good. / Yes we can try hard and help others. / It shows me that how hard keep other decisions. / Not really I already knew it. / I don’t know what that means. / I learn that you can be good. / Yes I am. / Because we can try hard for something. / Yes cause I learn many things. / Yes because you have to choose wisely.

What do you think about color?

What % gave more thought and shared them about color.

Pre 81% Post 95% Thoughts Shared: Pre: Me gusta el azul. Es mi color favorito. / I think color is that color can be many colors. There always gonna be different colors. / I think color wasn’t a problem. I basically like any color that will be perfect. / I think color is an opinion to everyone like as in everyone like or has different opinions about color. / That everybody is equal and that all colors are cool. / It doesn’t matter about the color. / I think the race or color of people should be equal. / I think all color people are the same. / I think that my color blue. / I think that color doesn’t matter. / I think color is what makes you be you. / Color is not important. Everybody should be included not separated from each other by a color. / I think color is a way to express yourself and to go show your true self. / What I think about color is that it is really important because it will express me what I like. / Never thought about color. / How I think about color is it could be good because of how you dress or the color of your home. / No. / What I think about color is it’s something pretty. / My favorite colors are blue, yellow, green, purple, brown, white, red, and gold. / No because it is just a color. / No I think I don’t make fun of anyone.

Post: What I learned about color is that it doesn’t matter if you don’t like it. / To store color like that will be not like. / What I learned about color was everybody is equal. / Color should be equal because it does not matter what it is. / It show us to express our feelings. / I think color is fun and cool. / That it can help communicate. / Color helps me express myself. / Color can be good. / What I think about color is that show color that show the person with his life. / That color doesn’t really matter. / I like colors because it is beautiful. / I think it can add mood. / That art is beautiful. / What I think is it expanded. / Everybody thinks different about color. I think color is important because people have a different race. / That there’s many colors. / What I learned about color is that it expresses yourself and your feelings. / Color shouldn’t matter. It matters on how you use it. / I think that it does matter because it makes you look better on some things. / It is important.

My most important hope or dream is. . .

What % gave more thought to their Dreams becoming reality.

Pre 86% Post 90% Thoughts Shared: Pre: En mi future, voy a hacer casa bonitas. / My dream is to be good in life and successful. / My dream change other people opinion that the person who they don’t like. / My dream in the future is to be successful in anything in life or anything. / Is to have a life. / Is to be a good kid in my future and do what’s good for me. / My most important hope or dream for my future is going to college and get a job. / It is to become a great basketball player. / My most important dream is to go to college. / My most important is to be a vet. / Go to college to get my degree. / To let other children express themselves. / My most important hope for my future is being an FBI because I really want to help others that are in trouble. / To maybe be a good writer to help other people who don’t know how to write. / Being someone is the word. / My mosdt important dream for my future is to be a vet for pets. / What I dream about is to everyone to be my friend. / To help my family and be a football player. / I do not have one.

Post: Is that I want to be a nice and pretty person. / My most important dream is to be a veterinarian. / Go to college is my hope and dream. / College. / Is something to dream. / My future is think about my family. / To be a FBI agent. / I want to become a singer. / Is to be an FBI agent. / My most important to change part of the America. / Is to have a job, a family. / Confidence. / My goal is to graduate college. / Is to be a vet. / It is to graduate college. / To go to college. / My most important dream is to go to college. / To graduate college. / Be a good soccer player. / To not have glasses anymore. / Is be a soccer player.

One thing I learned in workshop that will help me reach my dream is: Post 95% discovered something new in the workshop.

Thoughts Shared: One thing that I learned is that don’t bully others. / That I learned to reach my dream was never give up. / To not be afraid. / To make my own way to my goal. / Is don’t be bullied. / One thing is to make dreams come true. / Keep on. / To help communicate. / To know you need people to achieve your dreams. / To be kind to people. / It made me a different person that can prove my life. / Is that draw any type of color according to your feelings. / To keep dreaming. / It can help. / The confidence of your future. / Yes it will. / Doing things like art to help me. / The color. / One thing I understand with art is that I want to be an artist. / Is to just let out what you fear don’t hold it in. / Maybe answer all the questions that they give us. / Is that color is important.

What did you learn New in the workshop about yourself that you did not know before?

Post 95% discovered something new in the workshop.

Thoughts Shared: I didn’t know that you need to color within you hated color. / I learn to speak up. / That being OK or happy, not emotional and sad. / To make my own way to go through my problems. / Yes I learn something in the workshop. / My drawing skills are good. / Yes I did. / I learned that I’m very smart. / yes that helping others is good. / What learn new is to expression thing taught you have become. / To stand up for someone. / Be creative. / Yes it is nice. / That art is beautiful. / Yes I learned a lot. / Yes I used to be nervous but now I don’t. / Yes and no I didn’t. / Yes I did because you will express yourself. / Yes because you could let out your fear through art. / How some shy people come up and speak. / Yes I did.

What did you learn New in the workshop about a classmate or friend?

Post 90% discovered something new about classmates or friends in the workshop Thoughts Shared: I learned that a classmate can have another opinion than me. / I learn nothing new. / What I learned was someone like jazz. / Not afraid to talk to students or teacher. / Some share the same experiences. / Good or yes. / What I heard is to not bully. / That they know weird things. / That there are lots of people that like jazz. / I learn about my friends that I didn’t know about. / What music they like. / It was not bad. It was cool. / Yes everybody is cool. / That we need to show more respect. / I got to learn new things. / I learned that I could help a friend. / There’s many things about them. / What I learned was what they like. / Yes because some have different fears. / That they are not use to go and talk to everyone. / What they like.

What do you think Art can do for yourself or your community?

What % gave more thought about what Art can do for themselves and their community.

Thoughts Shared: Pre: Me gusta dibugar. / I think art can help. People like it. Can express someone’s feelings. / Art is everything that can communicate with the mind. It depend on the person. / IDK. / I don’t know. / Nothing. I rather do something else. / It can help people of bully or the color of people. / You can draw pictures. / Art can help me by expressing my fears. / I think it can make me a better person. / I am not sure about art how it could help me or my our community. / I think art is a way to express yourself. / Art can express your feelings and the way it helps the community by helping them. / Really don’t know. / It could be like how it would maybe amaze people. / Nothing. / What art can do to me is calm me down because it’s peaceful. / It helps me to be creative and try my best to draw. / It could help us not be bullied and not be mean. / I think it can help some people.

Post: The art can make me a leader. / To help kinds that here stand up of a bully. / To not be afraid to talk to each other. / It expresses our feeling. / Is it good and art is cool. / It could help you by not being bully. / Working together. / That it can help communicate. / Art helps me express myself with my own art. / This taught me to be nice and caring. / I taught to calm down with pressure. / It expresses your feelings. / I like to paint and be a good artist. / Help everybody. / That art shows expression. / Yes I did. / It taught me about being brave and confident. / Your imagination. / What are can go to the community is that you can respect it. / It can let out what you feel in the inside than just to keep it in. / How it will be kinda exciting if you don’t like art that much. / That art is important.

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