An amazing school assembly: The Possibility of Kindness
Kindness is absolutely essential to instill in students. Greg Bennick offers a new and positive approach to promoting kindness and to anti-bullying for young people nationwide. His messages are clear, and the laughs, along with most importantly the ideas, are nonstop.
He performs an assembly with interactive comedy juggling, with every trick explained and connected to meaningful lessons about kindness. The Possibility of Kindness™ school assembly generates positivity by asking students to reflect on what kindness means. Students learn what we can do to enhance kindness, and what our role is in bringing that kindness to our classmates, our families, and our community.
Greg addresses three central ideas in his assembly and relates them all back to being kind. He explains each of these ideas, in language tailored to each age group he serves:
Be kind: a simple idea, but an important concept. We look at ways to be kind to others and answer why it is important to do so.
Say yes: when we say yes to being kind, it opens up a world of possibilities for learning, connection, and growth
Its up to you: we explore personal responsibility and look at our role in elevating the ways we are kind to others
Students are also asked to remember and reflect on instances of kindness: their own and others’. Greg celebrates those as examples of what our behavior can look like if we make the choice to consider the feelings of others.
For students, growing up during the pandemic means a social challenge now that we are back to being live and in person. Behavioral guidance is key for young people during this time as students explore social norms without some of the foundational work that benefitted prior generations.
Students also need support around what bullying is, and what it is not. They need ideas for how to approach instances of bullying when they might find themselves to be a victim, or if they find themselves to be a bystander. They need tools for managing new situations.
