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J Neurol Neurorehabil Res 2017 | Volume 2 Issue 3
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17th International Conference on 4 th International Conference on
NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE & MENTAL HEALTH AND PRIMARY CARE
October 16-18, 2017 | Toronto, Canada
The purpose for the workshop is to share with attendees
how theater of the oppressed has been used as a creative
strategy to inform, prevent, and intervene in school-based
gender identity bullying and cyber bullying and to share the
results of two studies conducted using this creative theatrical
approach. The goals of the workshop are tomake the attendees
leave it by gaining following key points in their mind. 1) To
describe current forms of school-based gender identity bullying
and cyber bullying and their ramifications on bullying targets
and bystanders. 2) To describe how theater of the oppressed
can be used as a therapeutic tool to help students, parents,
the community-at-large, and mental health professionals to
understand the impact and trauma associated with these two
forms of bullying. 3) To describe two theatrical applications of
theater of the oppressed: “it gets better project”, a dramatic
musical about gender identity bullying, and “out of bounds”,
a stage production about school-based relational bullying via
cyber bullying. 4) To demonstrate the effects of theater of the
oppressed through sharing our research results on audiences
who attended and engaged in “it gets better” and “out of
bounds.” 5) To provide an opportunity for workshop attendees
to engage in a theater of the oppressed activity as “SpecActors”.
Participants will be invited to form small groups and “stage”
a response to a bullying incident from their own collective
experiences. The purpose is to demonstrate how theater of
the oppressed could be used in small groups as a therapeutic
technique and 6) To share the touching “it gets better” PSA
that was developed by a middle school group of students who
attended the “it gets better” performance to show how theater
of the oppressed can be used with clients who have been
bullied or who are allies.
Speaker Biography
Robert G Harrington has been working as a Professor at the University of Kansas for
38 years. He teaches and conducts research on bullying prevention and intervention.
He works collaboratively with schools, mental health agencies, and other universities
and has been an Invited Speaker at many conferences on the topic of bullying. He has
been awarded the Social Justice Award for his work in the field of bullying. He is on the
Editorial Board of the journal, Bullying and Social Aggression.
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Robert G Harrington
University of Kansas, USA
Theater of the oppressed as a creative strategy to cope with school-based gender
identity bullying and cyber bullying