Bystander Intervention Workshop (by sign-up only)

Free slots available.
  • Have you ever overheard a comment that you knew was not right but did not know what to say?
  • Are you ever the one who feels the need to "laugh" at a "joke" that is more harmful than funny?
  • Do you ever find yourself heading home after work thinking, "I should have said..."?
  • Would you like to have some specific skills designed to help interrupt break-room gossip?

This Bystander Intervention workshop is an in-person, interactive workshop that is designed to engage participants in conversation about difficult topics including, but not limited to, racial-, sexual-, religion-, age-, gender-, and sexuality-based harassment, bullying, and exclusion.

The workshop's goals are:

  • Raise awareness of barriers to helping.
  • Raise awareness of helpful behaviors.
  • Increase desire and motivation to help.
  • Develop skills and confidence to help.
  • Ensure the safety and well-being of attendees

Workshop agenda:

  1. Introduction and Brave Spaces
  2. Goals
  3. Theories and Definitions
  4. Experiences
  5. Social and Cultural Identifiers
  6. Bystander Intervention Action Model
  7. Skills Training
  8. Team Agreement
  9. Q&A

When: Sunday, 8 September 2024, 13:00–17:00

Where: Room Mercury - Konferenzraum III

Who: Organized by the Europlanet Diversity Committee, the workshop trainer is Dr. Moses Milazzo.

How to attend: This workshop has a capacity of 27 participants, if you wish to attend, please sign up here. In case your plans have changed and you cannot attend anymore, please go back to this form and update your attendance, so that other people can join.

If you have any questions, please contact Solmaz Adeli