{"id":16732,"date":"2018-05-23T12:12:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T12:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soc.ba\/?p=16732"},"modified":"2018-05-23T12:12:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T12:12:56","slug":"preventing-bullying-workshops-for-parents-and-ngos-in-tuzla-and-bijeljina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/preventing-bullying-workshops-for-parents-and-ngos-in-tuzla-and-bijeljina\/","title":{"rendered":"Preventing bullying: workshops for parents and NGOs in Tuzla and Bijeljina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/soc.ba\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p> <p>Sarajevo Open Centre, starting with the end of 2017, has been implementing the project \u201c<strong>Reducing peer violence\/bullying<\/strong>\u201d, with the support of the German Embassy (German Cooperation). Among other activities we have organised and plan to organise, during May 2018, after the workshopswe had on the topic of exchanging experience with the pedagogues and psychologists of primary schools in Tuzla (13-14 April) and Bijeljina (20-21 April), we realised <strong>workshops with parents and NGOs<\/strong> as well, again in Tuzla (11-12 May) and Bijeljina (18-19 May) &#8211; on the issue of the growing peer violence\/bullying.<\/p> <p>The moderators of the workshop were <strong>Belma \u017diga<\/strong>, KBT and integrative psychotherapist for kids and adolescents (Foundation Wings of Hope) and <strong>Slobodanka Deki\u0107<\/strong>, researcher and author of the publication <a href=\"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/as-if-i-were-in-zoo-violence-against-lgbti-students-in-high-schools-in-bh\/\">As If I Were in Zoo: Violence Against LGBTI Students in High Schools in B&amp;H<\/a>. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/soc.ba\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p> <p>In groups of around 10 participants, the workshop moderators presented the project \u201cReducing peer violence\/bullying\u201d through the politics and programmes of prevention, what SOC wants to achieve with the project and why this topic is of great significance. There was discussion on the existing programmes and how to improve them, and on <strong>the role of parents in preventing peer violence<\/strong> and their experience of cooperation with schools, as well as the <strong>role of NGOs<\/strong> in implementing the necessary education programmes for students, parents and teachers \u2013 on how to approach this issue and how to solve it. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/soc.ba\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bijeljina1-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p> <p>The participants analyzed the possible motives for excluding students through the discussion about the cases that appear in their daily school practice, and how to treat those cases. A special emphasis was put on transgender kids and ways of helping and supporting them in the process of self-discovery and integration with their peers.<\/p> <p>From the aspect of psychology, there was talk about the specific elements of adolescence and risk factors for the violence motivated by gender identity or real\/supposed sexual orientation. Working in smaller groups, the participants developed a gender-based violence prevention programme for parents and local NGOs.<\/p> <p>In the following period we will continue with these workshops in Sarajevo and Banja Luka.<\/p> <p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/soc.ba\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bijeljina2-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarajevo Open Centre, starting with the end of 2017, has been implementing the project \u201cReducing peer violence\/bullying\u201d, with the support of the German Embassy (German Cooperation). Among other activities we have organised and plan to organise, during May 2018, after the workshopswe had on the topic of exchanging experience with the pedagogues and psychologists of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/preventing-bullying-workshops-for-parents-and-ngos-in-tuzla-and-bijeljina\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16733,"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16732\/revisions\/16733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}