Civility starts from the heart...

American Civility Association is here to help you discover ways to live a happier and safer life through a heart education. You may be surprised at how quickly a few little tweaks to your daily routine will elevate your inner happy meter.

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What Children say...

"It helped me because when I see someone get bullied hurts my feelings, but now since we have precious not prickly not alot of people get bullied." "Preshus not prickly helps me by not being bullied and helps me get new friends it makes me feel safe." - Luke

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How you can support ACA...

For less than $1 a day you can be a hero to a classroom of children. $25 a month will provide a year of heart education for 25 students. If those 25 children each teach 5 others about living a kindness lifestyle through an act of kindness and those 125 do the same and so on, very soon everyone in the entire world will experience kindness and enjoy a bit of happiness.

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How We Do It

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A DANGEROUS EPIDEMIC

HOW TO REVERSE INCIVILITY AND THE VIOLENCE WITH IT

STEP ONE: IDENTIFY THE DISEASE Our first step was to identify the disease causing a rise in incivility. It’s name is rudeness.

STEP TWO: FIND THE CURE Our second step was finding the cure. In a word, the cure is kindness, not random kindness alone, but rather a kindness lifestyle.

STEP THREE: ADMINISTER THE CURE Our third step, teaching a kindness lifestyle, is now in progress with inspiring results.

THE DISEASE – RUDENESS VIRUS -CONSIDER THE FACTS

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RUDENESS CAN LEAD TO VIOLENCE + FREQUENCY OF EXPOSURE + PROPENSITY TO SPREAD

America is infected with a rudeness virus that is raging out of control!

THE CURE – KINDNESS ANECDOTE

People are not born knowing how to treat one another well. Civility and a kindness lifestyle must be taught. American Civility Association has developed an evidence based formula for restoring civility and diminishing senseless acts of rudeness and violence.

We develop SEL (Social Emotional Learning) Curricula and Materials with Train the Trainer sessions that feature the latest Brain Building Science and reading components. We call this a Heart Education.

THE AMERICAN CIVILITY ASSOCIATION FORMULA
Our formula is built on the latest brain-building research as it relates to civility tenets like, gratitude, kindness and other social emotional learning components. After 4 years experience piloting our heart education/civility programs, we can confidently report:

“Civility begins with gratitude; then kindness, goodness and respect will follow.”