Outward Leadership

Bringing the heart of Project PEACE into the classroom

What is
Outward Leadership?

Often imbedded within an existing Leadership class, Outward Leadership is taught on-site, in classroom. District teachers invite Project PEACE instructors to visit their classrooms, operating as co-teachers of the material. Individual schools may choose to structure the program differently, depending on resources and student needs.

Outward Leadership is a family of courses utilizing principles from The Arbinger Institute and Chad Ford’s Dangerous Love, adapted for middle and high school audiences. The courses are designed to build bridges between schools through common language and practices.

Like the after-school Project PEACE workshops, these courses help students discover tools and skills that help them navigate difficult relationships in a world that’s often trying to divide.

How does it work?

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WEEK 2
Introduction to Mindset
Learn about outward and inward mindsets and explore how we choose to see the people in our life as objects (vehicles, obstacles, or irrelevancies).
Activities: Monkey-in-the-Middle, Blindfold Search, Team Captain Block-Out, Matching Behaviors
WEEK 7
Overcoming Fear of Conflict
Learn about how our lenses influence our conflicts. Also explore the five ways people can interact with conflict and discuss the positive and negative impacts of each style.
Activities: Lenses, Conflict Styles Assessment, What’s My Style, Iceberg, Board Games
WEEK 2
Self-Awareness Tools
Students learn how to become self-aware with regards to the two mindsets, walking through tools like Self-Betrayal and Red Flags.
Reading: Excerpts from The Anatomy of Peace and Choose Well
WEEK 10+
Train-the-Trainer
This section of the course provides students with the opportunity to hone their abilities to pass the information they learned in the first part of the semester along to others, nurturing their leadership skills. They will be asked to identify what challenges they perceive in their own lives and communities that they would like to change.
Reading: Excerpts from Leadership and Self-Deception and The Outward Mindset
See People Initiative
The objective of the second semester of the course is to allow students to impact their community in a meaningful and lasting way. This will be done in a two-pronged approach: resolve conflict (reactionary) and address larger, systemic concerns (prevention).
Activities: Students will work on three challenges; first as individuals, then small groups, and finally, as a class.