Nicholas Carlisle and No Bully. Nicholas Carlisle, the founder of No Bully, a nonprofit organization in the Bay Area of San Francisco, has developed a simple and powerful way to both the number and severity of bullying incidents in schools: use peer pressure as a force for good in the form of “Solution Teams.” He trains teachers to become Solution Team coaches, who take discipline off the table and run a series of three short meetings of six to eight students (including the bully and the bully followers) to work together on behalf of a student who has become a target. Over the course of three meetings the power shifts from the adults to the students themselves, drawing on their natural idealism, their sense of justice and fairness, their natural compassion and sense of empathy to come up with a just and fair and figure out a solution. The undervalued resource: the students themselves.
By giving students an appropriate voice, a stake in the community and the needed skill set through training, No Bully is 92% effective in stopping both in the number of future bullying incidents and the intensity of each incident.
Few, if any, other programs so directly enlist the unique resources that the students themselves bring to bear. Moreover, an overlooked aspect of No Bully’s influence in school reform is to remind us all of the power of groups.
Commentary:
“The Big Idea”: the kids themselves are best positioned to solve the problem. The kids themselves, their idealism, their compassion, empathy and sense of justice.
The Setting(s): the school, home, neighborhood and on-line
The Approach: Group (a team for the benefit of others) – students who are targets of bullying; supported by a significant side benefit: improved inner resources of the team members and improved school culture: group dynamics and positive peer pressure
The Champion (and Catalyst) and Releasing Trapped Potential: the Solution Coach
Adding Value/Reducing Cost: reducing costs (mainly training the staff and coaching the leadership team) and adding value (students as allies, the moment when the power migrates to the students themselves): vision (positive social environment) : the intervention in three sessions with periodic assessment and revision; transform negative peer pressure into positive peer pressure.
Introduce these concepts that will be fleshed out more in other sections of the book
Identify the relevant settings:
The most undervalued resource (from depleted to robust) : The kids themselves, their idealism, their compassion, empathy and sense of justice.
Introduce the supporting resources: the group as a team and a safe environmental: Time (three meetings over two to three weeks for a total of one hour), place (within the school) and human resources among the faculty and staff – they all have been trained a 360 approach
This is the pooled resources, or group, approach. The routes are both indirect and direct. No Bully is primarily indirect (target does not participate until the last meeting of the team). Direct in that it goes right to students to get at the problem.
By giving students an appropriate voice, a stake in the community and the needed skill set through training, No Bully is 92% effective in stopping both in the number of future bullying incidents and the intensity of each incident.
Few, if any, other programs so directly enlist the unique resources that the students themselves bring to bear. Moreover, an overlooked aspect of No Bully’s influence in school reform is to remind us all of the power of groups.
Commentary:
“The Big Idea”: the kids themselves are best positioned to solve the problem. The kids themselves, their idealism, their compassion, empathy and sense of justice.
The Setting(s): the school, home, neighborhood and on-line
The Approach: Group (a team for the benefit of others) – students who are targets of bullying; supported by a significant side benefit: improved inner resources of the team members and improved school culture: group dynamics and positive peer pressure
- Indirect (target does not participate until the last meeting of the team).
- Direct, because it focuses on the safety and wellbeing of one person: the target
The Champion (and Catalyst) and Releasing Trapped Potential: the Solution Coach
Adding Value/Reducing Cost: reducing costs (mainly training the staff and coaching the leadership team) and adding value (students as allies, the moment when the power migrates to the students themselves): vision (positive social environment) : the intervention in three sessions with periodic assessment and revision; transform negative peer pressure into positive peer pressure.
Introduce these concepts that will be fleshed out more in other sections of the book
Identify the relevant settings:
The most undervalued resource (from depleted to robust) : The kids themselves, their idealism, their compassion, empathy and sense of justice.
Introduce the supporting resources: the group as a team and a safe environmental: Time (three meetings over two to three weeks for a total of one hour), place (within the school) and human resources among the faculty and staff – they all have been trained a 360 approach
This is the pooled resources, or group, approach. The routes are both indirect and direct. No Bully is primarily indirect (target does not participate until the last meeting of the team). Direct in that it goes right to students to get at the problem.