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
theme: variable topics
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.
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
Handling conflicts
Goal of the exercise: To show different types of solving problems, different ways of handling with a conflict situation. Through examples of everyday life, the participants should show how they would react in a particular situation and in the same time what the other participants think about that reaction.
Age of the participants: 14-17 years old
Number of the participants: 18
Duration of the exercise: 1 hour
Materials: None
Scale of violence
Goals of the exercise: To check our attitudes towards violence, i.e. how you treat violence and what does violence mean to you. Are you on the top of the scale of the violence and you support violence, or you are on the bottom of this scale so you are judging violence in every form of it.
Age of the participants: 14-17 years old
Number of participants: 30
Duration of the exercise: 30 minutes
Materials: Papers in two different colors (green and red)
I (dis)agree
Goals of the exercise: Face our fear of the unknown, develop an interest in new things, define ourselves
Age of the participants: 13+
Number of participants: 5-16
Duration of the exercise: up to 60 minutes
Materials: a game token for each player, a game board and a set of cards (see Building the game)
Chance to Change 