Peer Power, Book One

The Peer Power Program is a peer training programme designed for middle, high school, and higher education students, focusing on eight core skills: Attending, Empathising, Summarising, Questioning, Genuineness, Assertiveness, Confrontation, and Problem Solving.

Through a series of exercises, games, and self-awareness techniques, youth and adults involved in the programme can gain the basic communication and mediation skills necessary to effectively help their peers.

The professional strategies book provides the programme leader/facilitator with clear and easy-to-follow guidelines for implementing the Peer Power Program. After an overview of the peer programme philosophy, training structure, and goals, the leader's guide proceeds through the thirteen Modules that are found in the student Workbook.

For each exercise in the student Workbook, this leader's guide provides instructions for introducing and implementing the exercise, time and material requirements, description of its purpose and goal, and application assignments.

Equipped with the professional strategies book, the programme leader (teacher, school counsellor, juvenile centre officer, mental health professional and human resource professional) can quickly and confidently work through the Peer Power curriculum.