Go Find YourselfFostering Growth in the Bully and Bullied

Texas A&M University: Waylon Hastings, Brooke Wilson, Colby Seay, & Jesse Hernandez

❖ Free Speech ➢ Students are guarenteed rights on a state institution’s campus➢ Offensive speech is protected ➢ Speech against societal decency is protected

❖ Title IX ➢ Sexual Harassment ➢ When free speech becomes harassment

❖ Assessing Threat- Direct Threat and True Threat ➢ True Threat ➢ Direct Threat and Test

Nature, duration, and severity of the threat Probobality the threat will occur Will a modification of policy prevent the risk

Implications of Bullying

❖ Encountering Change ➢ Coping with the transition

❖ Reciprocal Determinism➢ Creating a safe learning environment

❖ Cyberbullying➢ Social media as a medium

Go: Welcome to a New World

(Bandura, 1978; Evans et al, 2010; Rivituso, 2014)

❖ Searching for Morals: Perry and Kohlberg ➢ The impacts on integrity

❖ Searching for Ourself: Characterized by Three Processes➢ Trusting internal voice➢ Building an internal foundation ➢ Securing internal commitments

Find: Everyone is Searching

(Magolda & King, 2004; Perry, 1999; Kohlberg, 1976)

Yourself: Happiness From Within

❖ Social Identity in a Three Step Process➢ Categorize ➢ Identify➢ Compare

❖ Purpose Driven by Self Authorship

❖ Discover Your Place in a New Community

(Chickering & Reisser, 1993; Jones & McEwen, 2000; Love, 2002; Tajfel & Turner, 1979)

Go Find Yourself Campaign

❖ Pilot program in the residence halls this year

❖ Incidents of bullying can be reported to RAs or anonymously at gofindyourself@waterville.edu

❖ Facilitate conversations with a developmental approach ➢ We can help you find yourself

❖ Fostering community within the residence halls ➢ We can help you appreciate and value those around you

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