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ENABLE - an anti-bullying program

ENABLE - European Network Against Bullying in Learning and Leisure Environments

This Hungarian website is suggesting an anti-bullying program named ENABLE: this is a program invented by the EU which aims the prevention of school-bullying by developing social and emotional abilities for children.


The basic aimes:

- Helping children and youth in developing emotional intelligence and empathy

- Including school communities in the prevention program

- Using "peer support" system 

- Teaching teachers and parents about the program and how to prevent bullying


Who is this program for:

- kids aged 10-14

- for the teachers and parent who want to actively take part in preventing bullying


The program includes:

- Social and emotional learning (SEL) modules

- practical tasks for students

- help for teachers

- materials and useful things to learn for parents


Teachers who use this program are asked to hold sessions at school using various working methods and teaching methods that are not so different from the ones they had used before for the lessons. They get so many tools to use from presentations to teachers and parent booklets, proposals for practice lessons etc. Digital tools are widely used if there is a chance for that at school.

They got 2 thematical parts in the program:

1. The already mentioned SEL: Social Emotional Learning

     It is recommended for schools where, for example, there is a really huge problem with bullying, or they know that participants will show resistance against the program or students need to gain more self-knowledge about themselves in general.

2. Peer support

            This is the part of the program in which they encourage students to take part in student-led awareness campaigns, in peer mentoring or peer mediation. 


As to highlight and comment some things I personally liked:

The first thing that made me happy and made me choose this topic to present to you is that this program aims at the school community AND the parents too. In my point of view, it is really important to acknowledge that a supportive and emotionally mature close family can prevent children from becoming bullies or victims. That is why I think it is really good that the developers of this included parents too, because it is something that can't be solved only at schools, but in the child's other environments have to change too.

The other thing I like is that it focuses deeply on emotional and social intelligence. It is really important, again, to acknowledge that most of the time with just "empty" words and regulations, nothing can be changed permanently: it requires development in emotional intelligence too. Not by just telling them but making them feel the meaning behind the words is something that is the most required thing for preventing bullying. 

Remember: preventing bullying is not only one person's or two people's task, but a whole community is needed for it! With programs like this, maybe we can't change the whole world, but we can clearly change the world of some children! And that is where the path for a better world might start at!:) 


Resources:

First, I found a short summarization of the program on this Hungarian website: https://sokszinusegoktatas.hu/hirek/hosszu-tavu-iskolai-programok-bullying-ellen

They added a Hungarian version of the parent guide: https://dl-sulinet.educatio.hu/download/enable/Enable%20-%20szuloi%20kezikonyv.pdf

If anyone got interested in it, maybe you can translate it somehow, at least I hope you can!


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