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Fear VS Love Dance Team

June 25, 2017 Houston Kraft

A beautiful visual depiction of fear versus love in a dance team performance.

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In high school, middle school Tags under 5 minutes, fear, love

Every Kid Needs a Champion

June 25, 2017 Houston Kraft

Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, "They don't pay me to like the kids." Her response: "Kids don't learn from people they don't like.'" A rousing call to educators to believe in their students and actually connect with them on a real, human, personal level.

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In high school, middle school Tags education, passion, empowerment

Evan

June 25, 2017 Houston Kraft

School Shooting Awareness Video -  The story plays out like a high school love story where two students are writing notes back and forth on a library table until they eventually find out who each other are. What you don’t know is that in the background of every scene is a boy who is showing signs of being bullied and or violence that lead to the shocking and frightening ending where he walks into the gym at the end of the year with a gun.

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In high school Tags awareness, kindness, under 5 minutes

Be Kind to Yourself

June 25, 2017 Houston Kraft

In a lyric music video, singer Andrew Peterson encourages viewers to be kind to themselves.

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In high school, middle school Tags forgiveness, grace, kindness, under 5 minutes

Being Assertive

June 25, 2017 Houston Kraft

This video gives tips on how to be assertive in face to face discussions.

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In high school, middle school Tags assertive, confrontation, under 5 minutes

All That We Share

June 25, 2017 Houston Kraft

We live in a time where we quickly put people in boxes. This video demonstrates that we have more in common than we think.

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In high school Tags relationships, love, freedom, assumptions, under 5 minutes

A Mother's Love

June 25, 2017 Houston Kraft

Marc shares how the death of his mother revealed what life is all about.  

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In high school, middle school Tags under 5 minutes, love, unconditional love, agape

Clear Vision by Dewitt Jones

June 25, 2017 Houston Kraft

Dewitt Jones explores the fundamentals of creativity. In doing so, Jones explains the process of creating a clear vision.

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In high school, middle school Tags dvd, look for the next right answer, don't be afraid of failure

Kirsten Dunst VS Selfie

June 9, 2017 Houston Kraft

*Warning – There are two spots (beginning and end) where foul language is in the video clip, but watch this powerful video short on today’s society and the obsession with self-promotion vs actual social interaction.

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In high school Tags Natural Selfishness, under 5 minutes, relationships

How Do You See People?

June 9, 2017 Houston Kraft

Originally created for the Sumner Servus Leadership Conference, this video can be used as a tool to teach servant-leadership.

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In high school, middle school Tags switching your thumbs, respect, perspective, under 5 minutes

Hitler Charismatic Speech

June 9, 2017 Houston Kraft

Clips from Adolf Hitler Speeches show a personality (gifts) of charisma, but remind us that it is our character (who we are) that separates us.

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In middle school, high school Tags personality types, power vs influence, influence, under 5 minutes

Guilty Dog Desperately Asks for Forgiveness

June 9, 2017 Houston Kraft

Ettore the Labrador is clearly filled with guilt and desperate to win over her owner.

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In high school, middle school Tags forgiveness, commitment, under 5 minutes

Grit TedTalk by Angela Duckworth

June 9, 2017 Houston Kraft

Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn't the only thing separating the successful students from those who struggled. Here, she explains her theory of "grit" as a predictor of success.

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In high school, middle school Tags grit, commitment, Delayed Gratification vs Immediate Gratification, under 10 minutes

Give Back Film: RAK

June 9, 2017 Houston Kraft

A series of films where a group of young men have decided to go out of their way to do Random Acts of Kindness toward strangers.

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In high school, middle school Tags kindness, amazing law of influence, selflessness, agape, under 5 minutes

Girl's First Ski Jump

June 9, 2017 Houston Kraft

Video from helmet cam allows you to see from young girl’s perspective, what she is about to face and you can hear the fear and nervousness in her voice before she goes down her first ski jump and the best part is her reaction at the end!

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In high school, middle school Tags stepping outside your comfort zone, confidence, trying new things, the harder choice, under 10 minutes

Free Hugs Campaign

June 9, 2017 Houston Kraft

This clip shows the first “Free Hugs” campaign when a man walked out into an outdoor shopping center area with a Free Hugs sign. Great discussion comes from what happens in the film.

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In high school, middle school Tags A.L.O.I, kindness, perseverance, not stopping at first rejection, under 10 minutes

MMA Fighter with Down-Syndrome Continues the Fight

June 9, 2017 Houston Kraft

Garrett, a young man with down syndrome, trains to be an Mixed Martial Arts Fighter and understands that he doesn’t want to be treated differently or given special treatment.

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In high school Tags perseverance, commitment, A.L.O.I, selflessness, under 30 minutes

Crazy Dancing Guy

June 9, 2017 Houston Kraft

Great video of a man dancing at the Gorge Amphitheater with narration of how this event connects to leadership. A lone guy dancing, leads to a first follower, then to more followers, and then the “tipping point” happens and tons of people join in the dancing. As described in the end of the clip, the key to the movement was not the original dancing guy, but the first follower.

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In high school, middle school Tags be the first follower, A.L.O.I, how to start a movement

Courageous

June 9, 2017 Houston Kraft

A collection of clips from the 2011 movie, Courageous. 

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In high school, middle school Tags humility, forgiveness, patience, commitment, switching your thumbs, agape, respect, relationships, service, under 10 minutes

Compliment Experiment

June 9, 2017 Morgan Grimm

Summary:

Soul Pancake asks volunteers to go up to random strangers and pay them a genuine compliment.

Debrief:

  • What is connection between kindness and happiness?
  • What did the experiment conclude?
  • What are some other random acts of kindness you could do?
In high school, middle school Tags kindness, happiness, under 10 minutes
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