In June 2015, Community Justice Initiatives announced the Educating for Peacebuilding scholarship recipients: Teddi Heard from Langley Fine Arts School, and Arianne Qanbery from Aldergrove Secondary School. These two student mediators have been active members of their schools’ Restorative Action teams for the past three years, and have been able to implement the lessons they learned both in their school communities and in their personal lives. Their experiences have also helped to shape their plans for post-secondary education as both students plan on studying psychology at the University of the Fraser Valley this fall.
“I developed a huge interest in the minds of people and how our perceptions all come from the same structure, but handle life very differently…I started to make connections to things I had already been doing such as Restorative Action…since picking up these clues, and my newly discovered interests, I decided that I was going to attend post-secondary with the hopes of one day becoming a Forensic Psychologist”.
Teddi Heard
“Most often, the mediations that I conducted with younger students ended up with them telling me about family problems, personal problems or something they should worry about…When I left these mediations, I wondered why the student had these problems. With these questions spinning around my mind, I plan to take psychology in University to understand and hopefully help troubled kids in the future.”
Arianne Qanbery
