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SEL Strategy: Peace Process

Teach students how to navigate conflict with the "Peace Process." This SEL strategy provides a clear framework for restorative communication, empathy, and peaceful problem-solving.
By Ilana Nankin, Ph.D.
November 3, 2022

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Learn the SEL Strategy “Peace Process” with Dr. Ilana Nankin and a group of students in the classroom. This practice supports the CASEL Competency of Self-Management and Responsible Decision-Making. It can release tension, foster effective communication, and resolve conflicts among participants. Note that this strategy is based on Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication strategy.

Check out our video to see our Founder & CEO, Dr. Ilana Nankin, modeling how to teach Belly Breathing to both younger and older students!

The Peace Process is one strategy to build Social Intelligence, one of the five layers of Human Intelligence. The more we understand, embody, and teach Human Intelligence, the more we co-create what education was always meant to be. If this vision resonates, explore how the Master’s Degree is helping educators nationwide integrate these capacities into daily teaching and leadership.

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Ilana Nankin, Ph.D.
Founder & Co-CEO

Dr. Ilana Nankin is the Founder and Co-CEO of Breathe for Change and an award-winning entrepreneur, teacher educator, and former public school teacher. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley and a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with research demonstrating the link between educator well-being, SEL, and student learning. As a lead professor of the Human Intelligence course, Ilana weaves embodied awareness and systemic well-being into a clear theory of change: transform educators to transform classrooms.

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