General Assembly 2025

Session

ECR Training - Becoming an Active Bystander

10 Feb 2025, 09:00

Calla

Description

Recognizing and responding to discrimination

1. Welcome

Pauline Gagnon

10/02/2025, 09:00

Calla:
Vogelpothsweg 85 (Mensaebene),
44227 Dortmund (Campus Nord)

41. Opening presentation and brief discussion: What’s wrong with me?

10/02/2025, 09:10

42. Harvard Implicit Association Test

10/02/2025, 10:25

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
Goal: Get aware of how deeply unconscious biases affect all of us.

43. Brief discussion on the participants’ impressions

10/02/2025, 10:45

44. How to react to discriminatory behaviour?

10/02/2025, 11:00

Tools to become an Active Bystander: the 5 D’s or How can everybody help!

45. Description of the afternoon exercise

10/02/2025, 11:30

o The group will be divided into 6 working groups of 6-7 people.
o Each working group will receive the description of one situation involving discrimination based on real events experienced or observed by ECRs.
o Each working group will eat together to get to know each other and start discussing about how to deal with their assigned problematic situation.

46. Putting it in practice

10/02/2025, 13:00

o Each working group will discuss how the target of discriminatory behaviour and the bystanders could have reacted in this situation using the Guidelines for Active Bystanders (5 D’s).
o Redo the exercise changing the gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or social class of the victim and/or offender, including hierarchy issues.

47. Plenary discussion on how to be Active Bystanders:

10/02/2025, 13:30

Each working group will have 15-20 minutes to present what was problematic in their assigned situation and propose ways to handle it. The audience will be invited to comment.

48. Recap on the day

10/02/2025, 14:45