Our Mission

The Art of Peace Club is a practice-based social and emotional learning (SEL) curricula, workshop series, and content strand developed for children ages 7-17. We believe social outcomes are as important as academic outcomes— and so we work to help kids explore how best to manage themselves and build personal integrity amid changing relationships and circumstances.

Our Story

More than a decade ago change agent and author Jodi Wing had a vision for adapting Sun Tzu’s Art of War philosophies to create lessons in peace and resolution. Understanding that conflict is inevitable, she recognized that dynamic early intervention is critical to teaching our children strategies and coping mechanisms for how to manage conflict when it does arise, to help them make better choices in their lives.

Jodi updated Sun Tzu’s principles into a modern day, practice-based ‘Club’ curricula and workshops for children 7-17 years of age to bolster traditional academics with social and emotional learning skills that emphasize civics and ethics education for in-school and after-school programming.

Jodi’s work began on the ground in 2010 in Los Angeles classrooms, educating elementary-aged students in the Art of Peace through engaged discussion, role-play and emotion-management workshops. Over the next nine years the program expanded to include older children in middle- and high schools. Jodi’s goal is to strengthen our citizenry by scaling this model of preventative thought leadership to impact and benefit more students, parents and educators.