Today, the Phyrtual Innovation Gym will continue to host the DisAbuse: Disablist Bullying course for 27 participants, including teachers, support teachers, psychologists, psychotherapeutists and individuals with disabilities. The objective is to address bullying against individuals with disabilities with the help of the Lego® Serious Play®, learning from the experiences of young men and women, as well as adults, with special needs (BES) and disabilities [see news: LSP and Disablist Bullying].
Starting with a focus on “What is bullying? How to recognise bullying and cyberbullying and contrast them,” the objective of today’s meeting is to Understand Spectators, Bullies & Victims together with Cecilia Stajano and Ilaria Graziano, certified Metodo Lego® Serious Play® and MTA Learning facilitators.
“In the next appointments, after having met each other and feeling comfortable, we will address issues related to respect, dignity and social justice, which regard all of us, no one excluded, and try to understand how to defend ourselves from situations of abuse, together with the young men and women and their chaperons.” This is how Cecilia Stajano, one of the facilitators, describes the lab approach. “The journey will be neither easy, nor obvious, but together we will understand how to shape our ideas and imbue courage into our actions to all become more aware, strong and capable of understanding what happens around us, when our rights are abused, when we are directly or indirectly involved in bullying.”
Ilaria Graziano underlines the "flipped" effect of the lab, which is profoundly transformative even for the trainers as they are “immersed in a human depth that is unusually strong,” adds Cecilia.
All the course didactic material can be downloaded from the project website, together with the Trainer Manual.
The course is part of Project DisAbuse: Disablist Bullying - Experience into Change, Providing the Right Support Services, implemented as part of the Erasmus+ Cooperation Programme for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices. The course is the result of the continued collaboration between the Fondazione Mondo Digitale and the Anti-bullying Centre at the University of Dublin with the partnership of important research centres working to prevent and contrast bullying: Institute of Art & Design Technology (Ireland), Lisbon University Institute (Portugal) and University of Murcia (Spain).
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