Choose from any of the following workshop descriptions or contact Bully B’ware directly at info@bullybeware.com to organize a workshop distinctly tailored to your community needs.
1/2 day workshop for Educators and others working with Children and Youth
This three-hour workshop provides participants with an introduction to the issue of bullying. Topics covered include:
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Defining bullying: the difference between bullying and bad play
- Identifying bullying in schools and in community programs
- Common examples of bullying
- Statistics on bullying
- Types of bullying
- Girl bullies
- Identifying and dealing with bullies and victims
- Building a positive school/community culture
- An overview of effective strategies to reduce bullying
Full Day Information Workshop (5 hours) for Educators and others working with Children and Youth
- Defining bullying: the difference between bullying and bad play
- Identifying bullying in schools and in community programs
- Common examples of bullying
- Current statistics on bullying
- Types of bullying
- Girl bullies
- Identifying and dealing with bullies and victims
- Building a positive school/community culture
- An overview of effective strategies to reduce bullying
- Implementing an anti-bullying program within the school
- Getting the students involved: building positive student leadership programs and opportunities
- Getting parents involved
- Implementing effective classroom/school based strategies
- Measuring positive successes
- Sustaining the momentum
- Using the video: Take Action Against Bullying
- Reviewing the 6 week anti-bullying program
- Collecting and collating data for determining program effectiveness
2 hour Parent Workshop
- Overview of the issue of bullying
- Characteristics of bullies and victims
- Bullying between siblings
- Bullying: Signs to watch for in your child
- Victimization: Signs to watch for in your child
- How to advocate effectively for your child
- Keeping your child safe: How to handle bullying disclosures without putting your child at further risk
- Influences of the home
Full Day Program Planning Workshop
In this workshop, educators will have the opportunity to work in teams planning the implementation of an anti-bullying program. This workshop follows the full day staff information workshop. At the end of this day, all staff will know the following:
- Dates for beginning and ending the formal 6 week anti-bullying classroom teaching program
- School-wide consequences for bullying
- Referral procedures
- Administration follow-up
- Garnering parent support through information evenings and newsletters
- Determining and setting school policy for dealing with bullying behaviours
- Excellent data collection methods and interpretation
- Bringing community businesses and extra-curricular program supports on board
- Measuring successes, planning for subsequent years
- Connecting with regional source schools
- Articulating expectations and teaching incoming students behavioral expectations
Effective Record keeping (2-3 hours)
In this workshop, participants will learn how to set up classroom and school-wide systems for accurate and helpful record keeping. Existing computer programs and systems will need to be assessed in order to determine the best program for each system.
Tackling Bullying: A First Nations Approach
This 1 or 2 day workshop begins with a needs assessment of participants, and presents information and programming similar to other workshops listed, with a First Nations perspective. Issues such as isolation, close-knit communities and breaking entrenched behaviour patterns are examined closely. Presentations are tailored to meet challenges identified in the initial needs assessment. At the end of the 2-day workshop, participants will have completed a plan for implementing and anti-bullying/anti-violence plan.
Consulting
Some schools take advantage of bringing in a facilitator on a regular basis to work with a group of staff members as a consultant to implement an anti-bullying/anti-violence program over a longer period of time. Other issues such as racism (a form of bullying) can also be examined and incorporated.
Cyber Bullying (2 hours)
Attention PAC's, parents, teachers and youth workers! Cyber Bullying Workshops for Parent and students! Bully B'ware presents a new, innovative cyber bullying workshop where parents are asked to bring their children to learn all about cyber bullying. This workshop is best suited for parents with children ages 10-17. We live in a world where our children are wired into their technology, and cyber bullying is a huge part of that world. Find out what is really going on in the cyber world, and how hidden this problem remains to us. Bring bullying expert Cindi Seddon into your school or community to learn about this incideous problem right along-side your children.
Workshop Details
Please contact Sandra at Bully B'ware:
Telephone/Fax: (604) 936-8000 or 1-888-55BULLY for more information.
E-mail: info@bullybeware.com
