Student
Training
- Conflict Resolution Training Rewriting Your Story - A
Journey from Tragedy to Triumph
A workshop designed to address the root causes of
behavioral problems in school. Students will learn how to breakthrough there
personal pain to live the story book ending of happiness that they always
wanted.
- Avoiding Columbine
Negative peer pressure in school has resulted in some of
the most tragic acts of violence in America. Students will participate in an
experience that will help to foster an environment of appreciation for the
humanity of their fellow classmates eliminating the insensitive mistreatment
that has lead to school violence.
Staff
Training
- Business is Always Personal
Helping employees work through their personal and home issues so that these do not spill over into the work place and affect the company's bottom line.
- Looking in the mirror
Getting teachers to realize their OWN issues and how they
affect their teaching effectiveness.
College
- Life’s Pressure + College = Campus Violence
How to change this equation.
- The Gift And The Curse Of Being First
First Generation college students, pressure that the family
and community places on them to succeed and how to handle the pressure.
Testimonials
“Nixon
and Dyer are dynamic artists, activists and leaders of the Milwaukee spoken
word scene. Throughout the year they tour colleges and local schools to get an
anti-violence message into communities and to young artists. They have done
extensive work for the Milwaukee community, publishing social commentary,
performing on the south side of the city, and helped to develop and cultivate
other spoken word artists since the 1990s… Students enjoyed their performance
and were moved by their inspirational words. "They make me want to change
the world," Tiffany Henley, a senior, said.”
From
The University of Rhode Island
“Life
changing… exhilarating… simply a powerful program for my students.”
UW-Platteville
Director
of Pre-college Programs and Retention Coordinator
Carl
Wesley
“The
Poets bring healing process to Westinghouse High School Students”
Deborah
M. Todd
Pittsburgh
Courier
“Mixing
definite rap rifts and gutsy but lyrical phrases, poets Muhibb Dyer and Kwabena
Antoine Nixon breathed life into their “Stop the Violence” message. Putting a
generally middle-aged crowd inside the mindset and the language of young people
living and dying on the inner city streets.”
Dominique
Paul Noth
Milwaukee
Labor Press
“The
workshop brought several grown men to tears. Then it led them to growth…”
League
of Young Voters
Training
Director, Atlanta, GA
Carey
Jenkins