In Schools
Years 7 to 12, one term a year, so a boy grows into a young man who knows how to feel, how to keep his word, and what safety looks like to give.
Our Roads · For Boys And Men
My Emerald Road
A standard of integrity he holds for himself, whether or not anyone is watching.
The same world that was afraid of a woman's power was also afraid of a man's tenderness, so it took both.
The Road
Every Step Of It
It Begins With Them
The Atelier gets to know each person first, in a conversation and never a form.
Years 7 to 12
In Schools
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7
Year 7
His Feelings
At 12 and 13, he finds words for what he feels and learns that tenderness is a strength he already has; when every boy has the words, a whole year group becomes kinder to live in.
The Eight Sessions
- 1More Than Fine
- 2Where It Lives In The Body
- 3The Iceberg
- 4Tenderness Was Never Weakness
- 5The Boy He Was At Seven
- 6Big Feelings, Steady Hands
- 7The Words We Share
- 8Strong Enough To Feel
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Year 8
His Mates
At 13 and 14, he learns what a real mate does (has his back, knows where banter ends, steps in) so the whole schoolyard becomes a place where boys look out for each other.
The Eight Sessions
- 1What A Real Mate Does
- 2The Banter Line
- 3Are You Okay, Mate?
- 4Stepping In
- 5The Group Chat
- 6When Mates Fall Out
- 7Mates Of Every Kind
- 8The Mate I Choose To Be
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Year 9
His Steadiness
At 14 and 15, he learns to respond rather than react and to see what his screens are teaching him, so he becomes the steady one in any room and boys his age become safer to be around.
The Eight Sessions
- 1The Gap
- 2Respond Or React
- 3What The Feed Teaches
- 4Who Is Selling Manhood?
- 5What The Screen Gets Wrong
- 6When It's Someone He Loves
- 7What We Were Told About Each Other
- 8The Steady One
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Year 10
His Share
At 15 and 16, he learns to see the invisible work that keeps a home, a team and a school running and to carry his share of it, so the load lands fairly and the people he lives with get time back for their own lives.
The Eight Sessions
- 1The Invisible Work Hunt
- 2Who Washes The Footy Jumpers?
- 3The Thinking Load
- 4The Kitchen Challenge
- 5Share Is The Word
- 6The Load In Every Room
- 7The Load, Side By Side
- 8My Share
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Year 11
His Respect
At 16 and 17, he learns respect, consent and equality as the way he lives and what makes a man safe to be around, so the people close to him can be fully themselves and his generation grows up safer together.
The Eight Sessions
- 1Hearts In Our Hands
- 2Respect Is A Verb
- 3Asking Is Part Of It
- 4Love Or Control
- 5A Safe Man
- 6When Your Mate Says It
- 7Questions Across The Room
- 8Equals, For Life
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Year 12
The Man He Chooses To Be
At 17 and 18, he chooses his own standard and keeps his word whether or not anyone is watching, and becomes a lighthouse for the younger boys behind him, so every boy coming through sees what a whole man can be.
The Eight Sessions
- 1His Word
- 2When Nobody's Watching
- 3My Standard
- 4What I Keep, What I Set Down
- 5The Next Rooms
- 6The Lighthouse
- 7The World We'll Build Together
- 8The Man I Choose To Be
Where It Runs
Beside My Ruby Road
In coed schools the two roads run together, so the girls and the boys grow up hearing the same truth.
My Emerald Road is one of the ways Women Of OZ builds a world where women are honoured.
Bring My Emerald Road To You