The Peace Rug: Empowering kids to diffuse bullying and conflicts before they escalate.

For use in pre-k through fifth grade, The Peace Rug® curriculum is research-based and proven effective. This single curriculum contains all the elements for state-mandated curriculum instruction in the areas of conflict resolution, bullying prevention, anger management, communication and interpersonal skills, character education, and cultural diversity. It is designed to re-pattern undesirable behaviors, particularly if used every day in every classroom.

The Peace Rug is not meant to be a substitute for counseling but is very effective in helping children relate better with one another.

What Other Counselors Are Saying About The Peace Rug Curriculum

"The Peace Rug is part of our school-wide character education program to teach values and life skills. It provides the opportunity for teachers to model and students to practice the important character education values of respect, trust, responsibility, and cooperation. Our students are excited about having a place and a narrative to help them solve their own problems."

Connie Holliman, Ed.D., LPC, NCC, RTC
Former Counselor at Westwood School, Dalton, Georgia

"What a unique and fun way to teach conflict resolution! The Peace Rug has been a great help in reducing conflict in our elementary school population. School social workers, counselors, and teachers will find it an effective, yet easy to use method."

Cynder Sims-Verheyen, M.S.W.
School Social Worker

“We have been using (The Peace Rug) to help children with disabilities and behavior issues. The rug has given many children a chance to learn and solve problems. This has been a wonderful resource and tool to help children with conflict issues. I have seen several children find peace when they use the rug and have observed so many intense moments become a time of love. There is a corner in our Family Resource Center for this time for children to use the Peace Rug. The rug has shown so many children a way to dissolve their anger, work on communication skills, and control unwanted behaviors. I just wanted to share this information with you and how things have been going. The Peace Rug has given children a way to cope with the storms they face and has kept them safe until they can work out their own plan!"

Elaine Tillman
Community Resource Specialist, Springfield Regional Center, Springfield, MO

“(The Peace Rug) has been used on several occasions. While it is no magic wand, it conveys an overall message that we do have choices and peace progress can be made if we make the right choices. Just having a place where we know the expected goal is peace also promotes the promise of compromise and friendship. I hope that eventually every classroom can have one. I can also envision the benefits of having one in the home to be used by family members. If enough of us work on peace in ourselves and promote peace with others, certainly there will be a peaceful difference made in our society. Thank you for promoting peaceful ideas.”

Gloria Jenkins
School Counselor, John Johnson Elementary School, Bainbridge, Georgia

“Each day we face conflict resolution incidents between students, and many times between students and adults. Additionally, our students many times face violence in the home and out in the community. We will use The Peace Rug as an integral part of our conflict resolution curriculum. I intend to train my staff on the use of (The Peace) Rug and pursue acquiring additional rugs for each classroom. Your contribution is our starting point in truly becoming a violence-free school.”

Richard A. Stidom
Naomi Elementary School Counselor upon receiving a gift of The Peace Rug from North Georgia Electrical Membership Corporation