Combating Bullying Starts with Awareness
Bullying is a major psychosocial risk for students, and our commitment to addressing these risks extends beyond the workplace. That’s why we are dedicated to protecting young people and raising awareness using innovative tools like virtual reality.
students are bullied every year in France
of parents say their child has been bullied at school at least once
of students have experienced cyberbullying
Why Create a VR Solution to Address School Bullying?
School bullying involves repeated acts of violence, whether verbal, physical, or psychological. While these acts often take place on school grounds, cyberbullying can happen at any time, in any place.
Virtual reality offers a powerful, immersive way to raise awareness and build empathy. It helps students not only recognise bullying but also learn how to respond, protect themselves, and support others.
The Different Forms of Bullying:
- Physical bullying: attacking someone physically, including hitting, shoving, or tripping. Physical bullying can also involve theft or destruction of personal belongings.
- Verbal bullying: using words to hurt, through insults, threats, humiliation, or repeated teasing.
- Psychological bullying: spreading false rumours, excluding someone from a group, or other actions that damage relationships and undermine a person’s emotional stability.
- Cyberbullying: harassing through digital means, such as sharing embarrassing content, sending threats, or spreading harmful rumours, to make the target feel exposed and unsafe.
Key Learning Objectives of Our Bullying and Cyberbullying Program
Our training programs were designed to deliver three specific and well-defined learning outcomes:
- Recognising bullying in all its forms: students will learn to identify both the types of bullying (physical, verbal, psychological, and online) and the subtle signs associated with each.
- Understanding legal implications: our solution explores the legal frameworks surrounding both bullying and cyberbullying. Students will gain a clear understanding of the rights and responsibilities of targets, witnesses, and those responsible.
- Knowing how to react: we guide students through best practices for intervening in bullying situations. From protecting victims to reporting incidents and adopting proactive behaviours, learners will be equipped with practical skills to prevent bullying.
Where Our Bullying and Cyberbullying Training Came From
Reverto’s initiative to address school bullying was born from our commitment to combining social impact with technological innovation. As bullying, and especially cyberbullying, continues to rise, we recognise the critical need for practical solutions. To create such solutions, we partnered with e-Enfance, a charity supported by the French Ministry of Education. E-Enfance raises awareness among 200,000 students, parents, and professionals every year about the risks of bullying and cyberbullying.
Together, we developed an immersive solution that was awarded the Facebook Active Citizenship Fund. This initiative aims to raise awareness among students and professionals about the dangers of school bullying and provide them with the tools to effectively combat it.
Rolling Out a Campaign Against School Bullying
Our awareness module on bullying and cyberbullying follows a structured three-phase approach:
- Immersion module: students step into the shoes of Julia, a student experiencing bullying. This immersive experience fosters empathy and a deeper, more personal understanding of what it feels like to be bullied.
- Educational module: learners are guided through a breakdown of the immersive experience. They then complete an anonymous quiz to reinforce key insights and measure knowledge retention.
- Exchange & debriefing: in a safe and confidential space, participants are invited to reflect and discuss the experience with a facilitator. This exchange deepens their understanding and encourages open dialogue around possible solutions.
Access Our Solution for Free
If your organisation already has VR headsets and facilitators trained to run this type of workshop, we offer free licensing for our School Bullying VR experience.
If you do not have the internal resources to run this type of workshop, you can still access our School Bullying solution through the “Bien à l’école” (“Well-Being At School”) initiative.
The “Bien à l’École” Initiative
As part of the “Bien à l’École” initiative, facilitators work directly in middle schools and high schools, responding to requests from the schools themselves. This nationwide project is backed by regional education authorities, including Lyon, Aix-Marseille, La Réunion, and French Guiana. The project was made with one goal in mind: building a safe and healthy school environment for all students. Students are not just taught to recognise bullying; they are equipped with concrete tools to combat it.
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