1. Take Back Your World NAVigate Your Life
URBAN REZ SOLUTIONS &
R.E.A.L School

2. Take Back Your World
Navigate Your Life
The Urban Rez Solutions and R.E.A.L School
relationship is one of compatibility and mutual
purpose.
Urban Rez Solutions and R.E.A.L School recognize
the needs of marginalized communities and have
exhibited parallel efforts to empower and maintain
pro-social change. The specific components of
conflict management are harmonious with dynamic
engagement that utilizes pop culture as a catalyst to
engage participants while imparting education, life
skills and personality development.

3. Urban Rez Solutions
A consultancy that conducts comprehensive self
empowering violence prevention, anger
management and conflict resolution training geared
to addressing the unique circumstances of African
Canadians, Aboriginal Canadians and other
marginalized communities. Urban Rez Solutions
inspires participants to actively engage in the
process of change and generate problem solving
solutions.

4. Urban Rez Solutions
• The 5 A’s:
Assessment, Awareness, Acceptance, Action
and Accountability.
• Development of conflict management
techniques
• Understanding intergenerational anger and its
impact on the individual, family and
community
• ‘Mental Health Wellness

5. ASSESSMENT
An honest evaluation or analysis.
Where do we individually or institutionally stand
in relation to the existing issue?

6. Awareness
• Who have we become?
• Are we unknowingly a product of our enviornments?
Where have our
perceptions, prejudices, biases, stereotypes, normalizat
ions and ism’s come from?
• Our historical reality and who we have become (e.g.
self fulfilling prophecies and stereotypes)
acknowledging that we have developed personal traits
that are beneficial and detrimental regarding the issue
at hand.
• An in depth understanding of the ignorance
• Empathy

7. ACCEPTANCE
• The honest realization of that we have had
something to do with who we’ve become and
being accountable for the choices we’ve
made.
• The blame game is over we must be conscious
of our responsibilities.
• Accepting is not settling or complacency

8. ACTION
• Coming to an honest realization after conducting
an assessment, developing an awareness and
accepting our position; how and what are we
going to change about the way we conduct
ourselves?
• This prompts the call for CHANGE
• Continuously being aware of the initial A’s and
not repeating that history if it wasn’t progressive
• Internal Makeover a social re-conditioning
• Initiating meaningful systemic change

9. ACCOUNTABILITY
• The consequences of not being ethically
responsible.
• Benefits of being part of the Rez Solution vs.
The Problem
• Responsible Leadership
• Seeing CHANGE come to fruition and
accomplishing the goals

10. Conflict Management
• Culturally sensitive and relevant Anger
Management and Conflict Resolution
• Reflections/Experiential Learning
• Understanding Lateral Violence in community

11. MENTAL HEALH WELLNESS
• Vision, personal responsibility, self determination, self
advocacy, communication, setting obtainable
goals, resiliency,personal power, expertise of
dynamic, self-determination, empowerment, small
steps big moves, recognizing
mobilization, rewards, nurturing optimistic
supports, continue to declare the misconceptions of
stigma, setbacks are opportunities for learning, setting
obtainable goals

12. R.E.A.L School
• 1. The Principles of Character and Leadership
• 2. Sailing the Seven C's - Challenge, Conscious
Choice, Curiosity, Courage, Commitment, Cha
nge & Communicate
• 3. Getting Performance Out of Potential
• 4. Knowledge is King but Knowledge of Self
Rules

13. Community Partners
• To date we have delivered and continue to facilitate our programming to
some of the following service providers; ‘Breaking the Cycle – Gang Exit
Program’, Canadian Training Institute, ‘Prevention Intervention
Toronto’, JVS/City of Toronto, ‘GED Program’, Native Child and Family
Services of Toronto, Toronto District School Board, Beausoliel Island First
Nations Board of Education, The Ontario Independent Police Review
Directorate, The Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional
Services, Frontier College, Taibu Community Health Centre, Toronto Police
Services, Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office, Evergreen Brickworks, several
First Nations communities nationally and in the USA, Yellowhead Tribal
College and Toronto Community Housing.
• In addition collectively we also trained staff at the Toronto District School
Board, Native Child and Family Services of Toronto, Frontier College, Door
Steps Neighbourhood Services and For Youth Initiative.

14. MEDIA PARTNERS
• ASTRAL MEDIA
• G987 (PUBLIC SERVICE
ANNOUNCEMENTS)
• AFRO-GLOBAL
TELEVISION
• WBLK (GRIOT NATION-
SUNDAYS 8-10PM)

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16. Reality Education Applied Life Skills

17. DIANE HILL
RODERICK BRERETON
JORDAN MILLER
FARLEY FLEX
TRAINEES
And many more…

18. Non Profit since 2012
Conceptualized 1990

19. Project based learning
A personal and professional development mechanism designed
to enhance and sustain curiosity of self and retained
engagement through actual and virtual experiential learning.
An integrated approach to living and learning that includes the
principles of
character, leadership, potential, performance, entrepreneurship
, constant growth and adaptability

20. Interests
Personality Traits
Skill Sets

21. R.E.A.L. School is for
EVERYONE
.

22. In your school
In your community
At your office
In Your Home

23. R.E.A.L. School utilizes the mass appeal of Pop Culture but
breaks down its infrastructure to expose a myriad of
opportunities for careers more aligned to the interests.
Personality traits and skill sets of the participant.

24. R.E.A.L. SCHOOL
IS
REALITYEDUCATION &APPLIED LIFESKILLS
YOUTH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
A Program Teaching the 7 C’s
CONCEPTS & SKILLS – FOR YOUTH TO
“Get REAL and BEcome the Leader in Your Life!”

25. THE 7 C’S OF R.E.A.L. SCHOOL
• CONSCIOUS CHOICE - Thru the Power of My Voice
• CURIOSITY– About My Potential – To Identify My Passion
• CHALLENGE– To Try Something Different - To Think Outside of the Box
• COURAGE- To Look Inside - To Tell the Truth – To Be MySELF
• CHANGE– My Perception & What Holds Me Back From Being My Best
• COMMITMENT– To Put Myself First – To Be the STAR of My Life
• COMMUNICATION– To Show Up – To Be Seen & Heard in the World

26. Example of a
R.E.A.L. School Classroom
Chippewa of the Thames First Nation - 2012

27. 33 Youth & Program Staff & Visitors
Participate:
Ages 14 to 29 Years

28. Using Interactive Games &
Exercises

29. R.E.A.L. School Teaches Youth
How….

31. At R.E.A.L. School, Youth Learn To
Take Their Place In The Circle Of Life.

32. They Practice Reflecting On The
Meaning Of The Exercises For Self-
Discovery.
The “Flower of Power” Exercise

33. They Create A Vision For A Different
Community Based On Their Personal
Development Goals.
The “Flower of Power” Exercise

34. At R.E.A.L.
School, Person
al Development
IS Also
Community
Development.

35. R.E.A.L. School
Helps Youth To
Reflect On What
Limits Them….

36. And What Stops
Them From
Being Their Best.

37. At R.E.A.L.
School, Youth
Learn To SEE &
PERCEIVE
Themselves &
Others Differently!
The “Flower of Power” Exercise

38. To Learn That They Are The Creators
of Their Lives!

39. To Know They Have The
Power To Create A Different
Reality – A Different
Community!
This Is What They Said They
Needed……

40. TO OVERCOME MY PERSONAL LIMITATIONS, I NEED:
• To be more independent
• To be more patient and confident
• To look at the world more openly and to stop
being scared; to stand tall & proud
• To be more confident about myself
• To come out of my shell and be loud and crazy
• To be more vocal and express myself

41. TO OVERCOME MY PERSONAL LIMITATIONS, I NEED:
• To have a bigger voice and more confidence
• To be more motivated and inspired
• To be more focused
• To be more of a leader
• To be more fearless so I can stand high & proud
• To find more courage to express myself
• To be more motivated about things

42. TO OVERCOME MY PERSONAL LIMITATIONS, I NEED :
• To be more expressive
• To become more aware of other cultures
• To be motivated and to use my voice
• To change the things I can and to let go of the
things I cannot change
• To be more assertive
• To have more courage, leadership, strength

43. TO BECOME THE LEADER OF MY LIFE!

44. Dr. Carol Hopkins, Executive Director, National Native Addictions Partnership Foundation. Presentation on “The Role of
Culture in Addressing Addictions,” The Beginning of the Circle Conference, March 5-7, 2013, Ottawa, ON.

46. PERSPECTIVE TRANSFORMATION
• American Adult Educator: Jack Mezirow, 1978
• American: Stephen Brookfield – Critical Self-Reflection
• Canadian Adult Educator: Patricia Cranton
• Joe Dispenza – “Evolve Your Brain” & “Breaking The Habit
of Being Yourself” - How A Change In Perception Can
Change A Person’s Life
• Norman Doidge – “The Brain That Changes Itself”
• Louise LeBrun – NLP in The WEL-Systems Context
• “The Observer Effect” – Double Slit Experiment – Quantum
Science
• All Perception is Projection (of the Mind)

47. KEY POINTS:
• People live their lives out of habit – habituation – due to
the programs that are in place inside of us. For eg.,
learned behaviour patterns wired into our nervous
systems.
• You cannot create a different reality by continually
engaging in the same structure of behaviour and
expecting a different result.
• There’s a process behind the behaviour and if we can
engage the process, then the behaviour changes all by
itself.
• This process for change, transformation and accelerated
evolution is what the human body is designed for. We
are naturally wired for change through the design of our
nervous system.

48. KEY POINTS:
• I can redefine my external reality by mindfully
choosing to shift my internal reality at the level of the
body.
• The practice of mindfulness often results in an
expansion of consciousness (insight) of how I see
myself, others and the world more broadly.
• Because ALL meaning is context-dependent,
perception allows me to contextualize my experience.
• So if I shift my perspective of my experience, then I
change what I discover about it and this new
awareness or insight then changes how I hold the
experience inside of me; meaning my behaviour
shifts to naturally fall in-line with my perception.

49. One Final Example:
• Addiction is a brilliant strategy that people use to
redefine how they live.
• Therapists attack their strategies and label them as bad,
so people then swap their strategies.
• But if we help them to see where the intelligence is in
their strategy, then this conversation helps them to
create a different context in which they can experience
themselves so they no longer require the strategy.
• Without a larger context for the perception of self, the
strategy will not disappear. i.e. need to move from the 1 st
to 2nd to 3rd perceptual position to create change.

50. NYAWEHKOWA – GREAT THANKS!
• You cannot solve the problems of the
world by using the same level of
thinking that created them – Albert
Einstein
• There are many ways to see the world;
Look at the Choice Point as the Bridge
between Your Past and Your Future –
Louise LeBrun