Active Bystanders’ Training: Creating Safety in Contentious Times

Active Bystanders’ Training helps participants recognize when they are bystanders, analyze situations, and evaluate the consequences for everyone involved.

Seminar Content:

• Defines the roles of those involved in a harmful situation (target, harm doer, bystander)
• Discusses the universal inhibitors that keep bystanders inactive when harm is occurring; participants create action plans to overcome them
• Examines the promoters of active bystandership (moral courage, inclusive caring
  responsibility for others, reciprocity, etc.); reflects on bystanders’ positive power
• Stresses safety and helps participants develop a variety of intervention techniques
• Looks at how to analyze situations in the future when harm doing is encountered

This training is free and open to all community members. To register, visit this page or click here to download a PDF flyer. Questions? info@opioidtaskforce.org or 413.775.7474