BSA webinar – Bystanders and Upstanders (antibullying)

Name: BSA webinar – Bystanders and Upstanders (antibullying)
Start: 2023-02-28T13:30:00+00:00
End: 2023-02-28T14:30:00+00:00
Location: Virtual

28 February 2023 @ 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Date: February 28, 2023
Time: 13:30 – 14:30
Cost: Full Member – £60, Additional Full Member – £20, Affiliate Member £90, Additional Affiliate Member – £30, Non-member – £120
Audience: Deputy Head, Inclusion Lead, Head of Boarding, Teaching and Boarding staff
Platform: Zoom (online)

Every child, and probably every adult, has been a bystander at some point in time. A bystander is someone who witnesses bullying but does not get involved. Being a bystander is easy – they aren’t the perpetrator, and they are not the one outwardly being harmed or the target of the attack.

In every situation it’s necessary to have somebody who does something that prevents or reduces the bullying they see – an upstander. Upstanders are people who comes to the aid of another person who is being bullied and shows them kindness.

Moving from being a bystander to becoming an upstander will not happen overnight. This webinar will give you the tools needed to support your staff and pupils on their journey to becoming an upstander.

Learning outcomes:
Characteristics of a bystander
What it means to be an upstander
How to engage next time someone witnesses bullying and being their upstander.

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Speaker: Jonathan Charlesworth M.Ed., Executive Director, Educational Action Challenging Homophobia (EACH)

Jonathan Charlesworth is the Executive Director of Educational Action Challenging Homophobia. He has extensive knowledge and understanding of LGBT+ people’s experiences acquired across thirty-six years’ practice in teaching, training, consultancy, Helpline management and books’ authorship. Jonathan’s been commissioned multiple times by the Department for Education and the Welsh Government to generate guidances and create training for schools nationally (including statutory anti-bullying guidance for Welsh schools). He’s the author of two books on how schools can challenge homophobic bullying and his training and consultancy work has been commissioned by the USA, Finland, Sweden and throughout the UK.