training workshops, seminars, and conference presentations. They are well versed in the areas of character education, leadership training, relationship skills building, character-based sexuality education, conflict resolution, and parenting education. Character formation is a lifelong endeavor, impacting and being impacted upon by family, friendships, and business relationships. These types of relationships are more important and demanding today than ever before, and to excel in them, we need good character. We are Alan and June Saunders, a husband and wife team. Our work over the last decade has brought us into contact with some of the finest minds in the character education field. Dr. Thomas Lickona, author of the seminal work on character education, Educating for Character, wrote the foreword to Cultivating Heart and Character: Educating for Life's Most Essential Goals, which was published by the Character Development Group, one of the premier character education groups in the country. June was a co-author of this book and Alan was production manager. We have been privileged to present on character education and conflict resolution at numerous conferences: the U.S. Air Force Academy's National Character Education Symposium, the National Middle School Association's Urban Conference, the annual Queens High Schools Conflict Resolution conference, and the Association of Teacher Educators annual conference, among others. We have also worked internationally, giving workshops and seminars in countries throughout the world including, in Africa, Asia, Central and South America and in the U.S., in Eastern Europe, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, and in the Pacific islands including in Australia and New Zealand. It is through these experiences that we have developed a multicultural approach that can be used in the majority of diverse ethnic, racial and cultural settings and arenas.
We emphasize core ethical values and virtues in the leadership training seminars we offer to businesses and companies. We highlight best practices from an extensive array of programs and initiatives that have been used successfully at the international level to develop and cultivate positive attitudes and behaviors within the work place. It is through the development of character traits such as mutual respect, responsibility, trustworthiness, honesty, compassion, empathy, commitment, perseverance and integrity that successful relationships can be built. |
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