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"The Group is the most powerful,
most neglected learning resource in America today. You can learn Reading, 'Riting,
'Rithmetic (and computing!) all by yourself, but you can learn the fourth R
-- Relating --ONLY with and through others." Founder/Director
Peggy Amidon is a group
dynamics specialist who has reached thousands of educators, students,
counselors, psychologists, parents, and business leaders through her workshops, presentations, and materials on Interaction Analysis. Graduating
with a B.A. in Education from Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA, Peggy began
her career as a certified elementary classroom teacher and has taught in
Pennsylvania and Virginia. She trained in the Graduate Program in Psychoeducational Processes (Group Dynamics) at Temple University,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she received her M.Ed. in Counseling
Psychology and completed 30 hours toward her doctorate. She is currently
working toward certification in Drug and Alcohol Counseling.
Peggy began to develop the
R.I.Sk
program in 1991 as a response to the skyrocketing incidence of violence,
drug and alcohol abuse, sexual irresponsibility, and other antisocial
behaviors devastating our society. Deeply concerned by these frightening
trends, she became convinced that group process techniques available only to
graduate students in educational psychology could and should be demystified
and used to teach people of all ages the vital intra- and interpersonal
skills needed to live peacefully and productively with themselves and others
in a diverse society.
That conviction led her to
explore ways of presenting time-tested group process concepts and techniques
simply and systematically. Defining The Group as a powerful learning
resource almost completely overlooked in traditional education, she
developed a breakthrough program that translates abstract values into
measurable skills that are easy-to-learn and fun-to-practice.
In R.I.Sk
groups people
learn with and through each other. As they interact in groups guided by
norms emphasizing respect and responsibility, the same peer pressure that
creates personal and societal problems is redirected to give them the
awareness, skills, and motivation to make rapid and dramatic positive
changes in behavior.
Simple, yet sophisticated,
the R.I.Sk
approach integrates training in communication skills, cooperative learning,
leadership, peer mediation, prejudice reduction, and reality therapy. Over
the past decade, Peggy has shared this high-impact program with thousands of
R.I.Sk
–takers
from 8 to 80.
You are invited to read
Peggy's
Resume.
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