'24 MSAA Summer Institute

This anti-harassment bystander intervention workshop focuses on providing participants with the "5Ds" (direct, delay, delegate, document, distract) as strategies to disrupt an incident of harassment in addition to examining the ways that power dynamics related to a victim's visible identities come into play during incidents of harassment. The workshops starts by defining the history of bystander intervention, why it's important, and the negative mental, physical, and collective effects of harassment as a public health concern. It then uses a video of a real life harassment incident as an example, covers the five strategies, and provides opportunities for participants to think through how to apply the five strategies if they were in the situation that the video portrays. Most importantly, the workshop ends with four scenarios that take place in a school setting based off of real life incidents that the student presenters have witnessed or experienced and facilitates a discussion of how