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Active Bystander Training
Audience: Academic staff, Professional staff, Research staff, Research supervisors
Date: Tuesday 4 February 2025
Times: 12.00 to 13.30
Key details: Online, instructor-led, workshop discussing and developing skills of active bystandership and allyship.
Course information
This workshop seeks to engage participants in active discussions regarding the attitudes and cultural norms that prevent them from acting to intervene in instances of problematic and inappropriate behaviour, and to equip them with the confidence and skills to intervene in the future. Through the use of case studies, facilitated discussion, and introduction to the “4 D’s Toolkit”, participants are given the opportunity to discuss different types of intervention instances of problematic and inappropriate behaviour and how to challenge a culture of “passive bystandership”.
This workshop is not intended to define or list problematic or inappropriate behaviours, but rather equip people with the capability to intervene when they identify such behaviours.
This workshop is delivered by The Active Bystander Training Company
Aims and objectives
By the end of the workshop, participants:
- will have a better understand of the psychological and sociological norms that lead to passive bystandership
- understand the consequences of allowing problematic and inappropriate behaviours to be perpetuated and left unchallenged
- feel capable of understanding what options to intervene in instances of problematic and inappropriate behaviour (i.e., 4 D’s Toolkit)
- feel empowered to open discussions with their teams, units, and schools regarding active bystandership and collegiality
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Active Bystander Training