Goals of the exercise: To help participants understand the harmful effects of bullying.
Age of the participants: 10+
Number of participants: any
Duration of the exercise: 15 minutes
Materials: Felt pens, pieces of paper
Games
A collection of non-formal learning activities for the prevention of youth violence (and related topics). Are you looking for something specific? We organized the games into collections using tags.
How do you feel?
Goals of the exercise: To show how easy it is to misunderstand what people are feeling by just looking at their body language and facial expressions, and how easy it can be to hide true feelings.
Age of the participants: 10+
Number of participants: any
Duration of the exercise: 20 minutes
Materials: Large jar or container, felt pens, papers
What does it feel like?
Goals of the exercise: This activity will encourage participants to think more deeply about bullying behavior – Who is participating in it? What role do they play? How do they feel?
Age of the participants: 13+
Number of participants: any
Duration of the exercise: 20 minutes
Materials: Bullying scenario, marker pens, flip charts
Agree or disagree?
Goals of the exercise: To enable participants to examine how they view bullying, challenge their thinking, and encourage discussion.
Age of the participants: 14+
Number of participants: any
Duration of the exercise: 30 minutes
Materials: A rope or anything that could set a limit or a boundary, sample statements list, 2 papers
Take a step
Goals of the exercise: To make participants recognize appropriate and inappropriate behaviors.
Age of the participants: 10+
Number of participants: any
Duration of the exercise: 20 minutes
Materials: A rope or anything that could set a limit or a boundary, sample statements list
The Greatest Hero
Goals of the exercise: To explore the role of the bystander in bullying and how you can help prevent bullying; to understand what it means to be a bystander; to learn ways to prevent bullying when it is experienced by others
Age of the participants: 10+
Number of participants: 16+
Duration of the exercise: 40 minutes
Materials: A variety of arts and craft supplies such as (markers, pens, pencils, crayons, stickers, glitter and glue). 1 or 2 flip charts per group.
Bullying Thermometer
Goals of the exercise: There are many types of bullying. How do you decide which is worse or more harmful? This exercise explores the types of bullying behavior and encourages the participants to discuss them, their meaning and their impact. Learn different types of bullying behavior, discuss the impact of bullying, discuss how differences (gender, generational, social) can affect the perception of bullying behaviors.
Age of the participants: 13+
Number of participants: 16+
Duration of the exercise: 40 minutes
Materials: Cards containing the words written in the following groups
Think twice online
Goals of the exercise: To identify online participation, roles and risks of exposure; To learn how to address hate speech; To understand what hate speech is and what are its forms.
Age of the participants: 13+
Number of participants: 4+
Duration of the exercise: 20 minutes
Materials: Presentation video, card boards, flip chart papers, colored markers, post-its, a laptop.
Cyberbullying: ctrl+ alt + delete
Goal of the exercise: To raise awareness about what cyber bullying is, in order to understand the different aspects of the problem; To experience and reflect on the individual consequences (especially psychological) caused by cyber bullying; To develop a critical thinking on cyber bullying, to prevent and take action against it at different levels (personal, community, national).
Age of the participants: 13+
Number of participants: at least 4
Duration of the exercise: at least 20 minutes
Materials: A4 paper sheets, markers, post-its, pens, scissors, thread, glue, a laptop
Sculpting violence/bullying
Goals of the exercise: Raise awareness among the participants about the issue you want to tackle
Age of the participants: 13+
Number of participant: any
Duration of the exercise: 40 minutes minimum
Materials: open space
Chance to Change 