Shared Responsibility: Beating Bullying in Australian Schools

Shared Responsibility is a proven, positive approach to beating bullying in Australian schools. At its core is the Shared Responsibility Meeting-a powerful and effective interviewing process that puts an immediate stop to bullying. The process appeals to empathy by putting a real person with real feelings in the place of the object victim.Shared Responsibility looks after the needs of victims, enabling students to cope and survive in a competitive school environment, teaching them how to be and feel safe. The whole school community is invited to share the responsibility for creating and maintaining an educational environment that is happy and safe for all students.The Shared Responsibility process has been trialled at a number of schools with highly positive results. It is simple, straight forward and can be managed by anyone who has basic people skills.