Izzy Kalman
- Age: 56
- Gender: Male
- Industry: Education
- Occupation: School Psychologist; Seminar Leader; Psychotherapist
- Location: Staten Island : NY
About Me
I dedicated myself to helping victims of bullying after the Columbine shooting, which brought attention to the terrible plight of these kids. For years before Columbine, I had been teaching kids, with great success, how to stop being bullied, with a fun procedure I developed that teaches kids basic psychological principles about why they are being bullied and how to make the bullying stop. I thought all mental health professionals understood these principles. However, I was amazed to see what the mental health establishment was trying to do as a response to Columbine. Instead of teaching kids how not to be victims–the only reliable solution–we were embarking on a massive campaign to get rid of bullies. I knew this couldn't possibly work, and was bound to make the problem worse, so I immediately began creating my website, www.Bullies2Buddies.com, to teach the world how to correctly understand and solve the problem of bullying.
Favorite Books
- The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris
- Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh by Helena Norberg Hodge
- Ishmael by Daniel Quinn; The Thousand Year War in the Mideast by Richard Mayberry
- The Practical Parent: ABC’s of Child Discipline by Corsini and Painter
- The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
- The Forest People: A Study of the Pygmies of the Congo by Collin Turnbull
- In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall
- Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo by Birute Galdikas
- What it Means to Be a Libertarian by Charles Murray
- Our Inner Ape by Frans DeWaal
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
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