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
group size: large
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
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
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
Violence/bullying in the media
Goals of the exercise: To show the participants that there are different ways of expressing their feelings and opinions
Age of the participants: 13 years +
Number of participant: any
Duration of the exercise: 40 minutes
Materials: magazine/newspapers, flip chart, scissors, glue, markers
Violence
Goals of the exercise: To raise awareness among the participants about the types of violence/bullying that exist and to make them think about the ways in which they can contribute to stop or prevent it.
Age of the participants: 13 years +
Number of participant: any
Duration the exercise: 40 minutes
Materials: choose a set of pictures from internet/magazine/newspaper (you can also print the pictures. Choose pictures that present emotional abuse, neglect, and physical abuse. Post it notes in different colors, markers, flip chart.
Bullying
Goal of the exercise: To raise awareness among youngsters about the seriousness of the bulling actions, and to make them think how they can solve the problem if they come across this kind of situations
Age of the participants: 13+
Number of participants: any
Duration: 30 minutes – 1 hour
Materials: participants can be creative and use materials from the classroom
Chance to Change 