Creating a Working Culture: Bullying Prevention Through Expressive Arts

3 Sessions: Session 1: 90m, Session 2: 90m, Session 3: 90m

Overview

Purpose: Sessions support participants’ in learning to:

• Identify and appreciate self reliance and its valuable role in managing difficulty (e.g. conflict, bullying)
• Recognize and distinguish between conflict and bullying
• Identify emotional states of self and others when in conflict or bullying situations
• Increase awareness of appropriate attitudes and responses to difficult situations
• Explore effective strategies for managing conflict and bullying
• Identify their best personal strategies to manage difficulty
• Reflect upon a peaceful individual’s effect on the wider community

Approaches:

1. Guided, reflective observation and meditation on the painting, Awakening. Opportunity for personal reflection and group discussion
2. “Hands-on” Expressive Arts Activities: Exploring Paper Sculpture Techniques
3. Story Telling
4. Mind Mapping

Expressive Arts Workshop: U of T, Two Portraits: Toronto District School Board  (Above)

Mind Map from Expressive Arts Workshop: University of Toronto  (Below)

Session 2: Exploring Conflict and Bullying Through Paper Sculpture Techniques

Objective: Participants will:

• Recognize and distinguish between conflict and bullying
• Identify emotional states of self and others when in conflict or bullying situations
• Increase awareness of appropriate attitudes and responses to difficult situations

Session 3: My Best Strategies for Managing Difficulty: Creating a Bridge from My Difficult Place to My Better Place Through Paper Sculpture

Objective: Participants will:

• Identify Strategies best suited to them self and their particular challenges
• Use Paper Sculpture to depict/symbolize their Best Strategy/Strategies by creating a “bridge(s)” from their Difficult Place to their Better Place
• Mind Map: My Best Strategy/Strategies