FAQ
The most asked questions
The four versions of the lecture have a duration depending on the age of the audience:
- Elementary grades 1-3: 45 minutes
- Elementary grades 4 to 6: 75 minutes
- High school students: 75 minutes
- Parents / professional development: 90 minutes
My lectures can be adapted. If you have any special requests or needs, please contact me.
No, I'm perfectly bilingual and can give my talk in French as well.
Yes, I can travel to wherever you need me. As a matter of fact, I've given talks in all of the Canadian provinces and territories, in both metropolitan and remote areas.
The purpose of the monologue is to give a common vision of what a victim of bullying might experience in terms of emotions regarding certain gestures, words or situations.
I invite you to contact the staff of the schools I've visited in the past directly by consulting the Calendar section. For more specific references, please don't hesitate to contact me.
The conference will help you to understand why victims tend to withdraw into themselves and isolate themselves, even if those close to them strongly advise them to talk to a parent or teacher, and why a victim's emotional reactions can often seem disproportionate to the act.
The conference explains why witnesses, even after several teaching interventions, will seem to understand what bullying is in the classroom, but will still freeze or look away and act as if nothing happened during a bullying situation. Witnesses will have a definition they can make their own, and clear examples of actions they can take to help a victim of bullying.
The conference will help us understand why authors of acts of bullying often perceive themselves as victims and rarely as authors of bullying when confronted by an intervener or a parent. They will also understand the damage they are creating with certain gestures, jokes or games, even if their intention, in some cases, was not really to hurt anyone.