At-a-Glance

Level Up Your Peacemaking Potential: Mediation Skill Building

10:00am – 11:40am

Peer mediation is a powerful tool for peacemaking that you can use to create a new way of dealing with conflict and behavior at your school. A skilled peer mediator helps their fellow students ease tensions, find new solutions, resolve fights and so much more.

Whether you are a seasoned peer mediator or new to it all, you’ll get key mediation tips and tricks from WJC.

Plus, you’ll get a chance to practice mediation with real time coaching from professionals, who will be there to support you and share how mediation has helped them in their lives and careers.

Educators and other adult attendees are encouraged to watch & learn!

Lunch

11:40am – 12:15pm

Lunch is an opportunity to hang out with new friends, make memories and capture fun pictures in our photo booth!

Workshops: What You Need To Know

Get ready for the most dynamic part of the day. High school students will take part in one extended workshop session filled with creativity, skill building and real conflict resolution practice. This is your space to dive deep, ask questions and connect what you learn to real experiences on your campus.

• Workshop Session: 12:2pm to 1:45 pm

Whether you want to explore careers in peacebuilding, strengthen your mediation skills or take on issues that matter in your community, these workshops give you the chance to grow as a leader.

Scroll down to discover each workshop and start planning your journey.

Workshop Descriptions

These are the latest updates on the workshops. Stay tuned for new information, as details may shift as we get closer to PMI.

Voices Online, Power IRL

Turn your screen time into impact that lifts your community.

Your social media feed can be more than photos and memes. It can be a megaphone. Step into a workshop that shows how young people can turn everyday posts into calls for justice. You will explore how to build community, develop narratives, and amplify voices that need to be heard.

Learn how social media can become a tool for healing, belonging, and real-world change.

Co-facilitated by Farrah Fazal, an Emmy winning journalist who uses storytelling to amplify unheard voices, and youth leader Alan Ramirez, member of the Azusa High School Student Union.

Your Future in Focus:
Careers That Create Change

Meet leaders who use mediation skills to shape the world.

About the Roundtable: Mediators are everywhere: tech, arts, law, social justice, business, engineering, and more. Meet professionals who use peacebuilding skills in their careers and hear real stories about how conflict resolution opened unexpected doors in their lives. 

See how your mediation skills today can shape the path you take tomorrow. 

Power in Community: Organizing for Better Schools

Discover how students can turn collective power into real change.

When students, parents and community organize, schools change. This workshop explores Community Coalition’s School Climate Campaign and the ways young people led the charge to reshape discipline, safety, and belonging across LAUSD schools with largely Black and Brown populations. 

Through real stories from South LA, discover how collective action moves policy, strengthens communities, and gives young people the tools to lead lasting transformation.

Facilitated by Christian Flagg and Community Coalition, an organization that mobilizes youth to transform school climate

Seeds of Change:
Youth Voices in Bloom

Step into your voice and let it move people toward understanding.

Movements for justice have been shaped by people who chose peace even in the face of hate and discrimination. Led by Rev. Dr. Rob Muthiah, this workshop dives into real moments in history when nonviolent action was used as a tool for social change. 

Learn how courage, discipline, and compassion help communities stand up for what is just and true without causing harm. Discover where your own voice fits into the legacy of nonviolence.

Co-facilitated by Rev. Dr. Rob Muthiah, an educator and advocate who teaches the power of nonviolent action, and a Student Leader.

Level Up Your Peacemaking Potential: Mediation Skill Building

Use courage, compassion and strategy to stand for justice.

Your identity holds power. Your community does too. This workshop invites you to use visual art to explore the stories that shape you. You will see how this form of expression can open conversations that bridge differences and support conflict resolution.

By creating images that reflect your truth you learn how art can be a tool for belonging and a spark for action that brings people together.

Facilitated by Boyle Heights Arts Conservatory, a creative community that uplifts young artists through media and cultural storytelling