Understanding Harmful Behaviours and Bystander Intervention

About this event

Course Overview

Sensitive content disclosure: This workshop will contain explicit conversations about experiences of sexual violence, queerphobia and racial microaggressions. 

Understanding Harmful Behaviours and Bystander Intervention is part of the University’s commitment to providing a supportive and safe environment to prevent gender based violence and microaggressions on campus. This training session assists participants in understanding how some harmful behaviours are expressed in our educational institutions, workplaces, and communities and provides detailed and practical skills and strategies in intervening in the systems, structures and behaviours that may normalise or foster harm. 

Who should attend?

This training is available for all ANU staff members and students. 

Key takeaways

At the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the drivers behind harmful behaviours 
• Understand how gender-based harassment is expressed in our community
• Understand and identify microaggressions 
• Identify ways to create safer environments
• Enact safe strategies for intervening and addressing problematic behaviour among peers, in the workplace or community

What the course will cover

• Review diagnostic frameworks that support us to understand why these attitudes, beliefs and behaviours exist in our community
• Establish the broader context around gender-based violence including examining the attitudes, beliefs and behaviours that normalise problematic behaviour
• Explore intervention frameworks and apply your learnings to ANU specific contexts and scenarios, learning how to interrupt and challenge problematic behaviours, systems and norms.
• Safe spaces, support services and reporting options: How to create safe work and learning spaces, on and off-campus support services for those who have experienced harm, university procedures and protocols around disclosures, reporting options and advocacy, the role of the Inclusive and Respectful Communities team in organisational culture change

When can I attend?

Select ‘Register Now’ to review the upcoming workshops for this training program.

Cost

This training is free to all ANU students and staff.