1. Bullying Awareness

2. What is bullying?
Imbalance of power

3. to intimidate to dominate to hurt
Goal is:
to intimidate
to dominate
to hurt

4. Goes beyond teasing to:
create terror
contempt
ongoing threat of more

5. What Does it Look Like?

6. Physical:
hit
kick
fight

7. Verbal:
taunt
slander
gossip

8. manipulate shun cyber bully
Relational:
manipulate
shun
cyber bully

9. Bullying most frequently occurs in the school environment
Bullying happens once every 7 minutes
Bullying often goes unreported
A bullying incident typically lasts 37 seconds but emotional scars can last a lifetime
By the age of 24, 60% of identified bullies have a criminal record
Kids repeatedly victimized sometimes see suicide as their only escape
All kids are negatively affected when bullying occurs.
Bullying Statistics

10. The Bullying Circle

11. Empathy: the capacity to recognize, and to some extent, share feelings that are being experienced by another.