Workshops and Activities

Through interactive educational activities, skill-building workshops, role-playing and team building exercises, Anytown participants explore their own identities and have discussions in a safe environment about issues that divide their homes, schools and communities.

By inviting participants to forge a vision of positive change, Anytown encourages them to become role models in their families, schools and neighborhoods, among their peers and in the broader community. Furthermore, Anytown equips the delegates with valuable skills in the areas of cross-cultural communication and leadership, coalition building, and problem solving, and prepares them to become advocates for inclusion upon their return, through the development of individual action plans for community involvement.

Diversity Awareness

Anytown brings together high school students of diverse cultural, ethnic, religious, and economic backgrounds to build a culturally diverse community from the ground up. Over the course of five days, participants or “delegates” explore different themes of diversity, such as stereotypes, racial and ethnic discrimination, gender discrimination, religious intolerance, mass atrocities, homophobia and sexism. These workshops, along with role-plays and small group discussions, lead to a greater understanding of personal experiences and challenge participants to create a more peaceful society.

Youth Leadership

The objective of our unique curriculum is to help our youth discover that every individual can make a difference. “Don’t wait for change to happen, be the change,” is the Anytown message.

• Identity: Who am I? How do I choose my friends?
• Communication: Leading through honesty, fairness and authentic communication
• Conflict prevention & problem solving
• Advocating for inclusion and respect: How?
• Mapping your community: What resources are out there?
• Elaborating an individual action plan: What can I do?
• Volunteering: How? What? Where? When?