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Due to easy continuous access via the internet Children are becoming a growing consumer of pornography. With 450 million porn internet sites this presentation addresses a frightening threat to healthy human development facing youth today and profoundly impacting their lives and their relationships present and future.   *   Children as young as 7 years old are visiting porn sites regularly   *   Average teen boy is watching porn 2-4 hours per week or more   *   Internet Pornography is linked to depression, social anxiety, suicide, apathy and disillusionment in relationships, sexual assault, and rape. What can be done? This important presentation and training may be of interest to almost any adult audience.

The Relationship Literacy program presents a set of principles, strategies, and tools within a holistic model for human interaction. The 80-minute Teacher Training covers tools taken from the four principal areas of The Relationship Literacy Program: Relationships and Self-Identity development (personal and social), Prevention of Relationship Abuse and Violence, Self-Management, and Healthy Relationships. The training discusses principles, strategies, and tools to resolve and better manage conflicts, and develop and maintain healthier relationships. We discuss ways teachers can integrate The Relationship Literacy curricula into their current lesson plans or use our stand-alone curriculum. The Student presentation takes place over 3 sessions (30-40 min each), covers the principal areas of The Relationship Literacy program while walking students through exercises and scenarios that require their reflection and modeling. We offer Relationship Literacy Consultations for Businesses, Families, Schools and Educators, and customized written and online curricula for adults and youth, Power Point presentations for Educators and two novellas for youth (5th and 6th graders).

PURPOSE The purpose of this workshop is to inform the professional community of research developments in this new field. The workshop is designed to draw interest from persons studying or working in fields like college education, counseling, healthcare, ministry, pharmacology, psychology, social work, as well as various teaching disciplines and areas of scientific research. The workshop may serve as a way to bring together professionals and lay persons interested in cutting edge education involving science and beliefs. GENERAL WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION Neurotheology is a relatively new scientific field in which scientists attempt to discover the missing elements of physical science by scientifically studying human beliefs. In the modern age, science has come to dominate the way we think as well as the theories regarding the way we think to the exclusion of any comprehensive understanding of the human mind, spirituality, beliefs and ideas. Neurotheology attempts to bridge this gap. Neurotheology engages meaningfully diverse understandings of reality including the physical, mental, and spiritual. The discipline explores ways humans experience, generate, interpret and mediate beliefs. Its primary objectives are to establish comprehensive, interdisciplinary approaches to understand beliefs and to explain, interpret and predict the influences of beliefs to thought, feeling, behavior and experience. Neurotheology acknowledges the complexity and diversity of human beliefs by providing a broad conceptual framework to encompass beliefs whether mystical or religious, economic or environmental, political or social, or some other. Each dimension of beliefs affords critical, creative study of the science(s), beliefs and/or belief systems involved. Both the science and beliefs intersect through a four-fold methodology that provides the basis to unpack the complexity of their relationship and intimate the relationship’s influence to human thought, feeling, behavior and experience. The workshop will explore several scientific perspectives on belief formation and utility. The workshop will consider perspectives from biology, cognitive science, economics, genetics, neuroscience and psychology. Beginning with an overview of what Neurotheology is and what it attempts to accomplish, the workshop will illustrate how Neurotheology proposes six belief dimensions, each of which encompasses different disciplines that posit particular understandings of brain (human physiology), mind

These days soft skills like communication, collaboration and mediation are needed by everyone more and more. This Training Visions in conflict will address all three while looking in depth at real world conflicts and real world interventions that worked. We will use anecdots from our first volume from the Visions in Conflict series. A conflict in visions stands at the center of major international and national crises in the United States, Middle East, Africa, Asia, or elsewhere. This course will use the present volume to explore essays written by authors from around the world on powerful vehicles of conflict resolution-namely, religion, psychology, education and training, psychotherapy, and sports. It is our sincere hope that these essays shed light on the process of peace and reconciliation.  BOOK Visions in Conflict: International Perspectives on Values and Enmity: Alston, Brian C.: 9781439269145: Amazon.com: Books https://www.amazon.com/Visions-Conflict-International-Perspectives-Values/dp/1439269149

The course will offer an interactive learning experience. Participation is expected and important. The course will draw from contemporary scholarship and popular culture. Classes will challenge students to think critically and creatively about the influence of Science and beliefs to thought, feeling, behavior and experience. Various instructional methodologies will assist students throughout the course to achieve learning outcomes. Students will demonstrate understanding of course materials through the following: • Weekly homework assignments • Short instructor lectures and discussion • Small group assignments • Midterm examination • Student class presentations • Student book review THE COURSE WILL TEACH THE FOLLOWING: • Scientific (biology, genetics, neuroscience, psychology, etc) proposals for belief formation. • Contemporary connections on human physiology and beliefs to emotional, mental, physical and spiritual well-being. *Demonstrate an appreciation of a variety of expression and ethical issues from diverse scientific fields in the study of beliefs . *Explain the nature and societal implications of global relationships among diverse cultures and beliefs. Course Objectives • Students will learn about historical controversies between science and religion. • Students will gain an understanding of the purpose and aim of the discipline Neurotheology. • Students will gain an understanding of different dimensions of beliefs (E.g., cultural, political, religious/spiritual, social, etc). • Students will learn scientific proposals (biology, genetics, neuroscience, psychology, etc) for belief formation and utility. • Students will be encouraged to apply critical thinking skills in the interpretation of brain, mind, and belief proposals. • Students will learn about human neuroanatomy and its connections to mind and beliefs. • Students will learn brain (physiology), mind and belief connections to emotional, mental, and physical well-being. • Students will discuss the relevance of Neurotheology to their own personal and social experience and understanding of the world. • Students will be encouraged to move beyond simplistic, either-or answers, and begin to develop an integrated understanding of how belief, the human brain, and mind relate to human experience.