Active Bystander Scenarios
Consider:
What impact will this scenario have on your colleague/team/community?
What potential impact would not disrupting the behaviour have?
How do you feel in the moment? What emotions might you feel in the scenario?
Discuss:
How might you be an active bystander in that moment?
Set 1
(Group 1) A staff member enters the staff room and says, “Wow, ethnic food has a strong smell!”
(Group 2) A colleague says, “Do we really need to be doing this EDI stuff? I haven’t seen any discrimination at LABC. We’re all so busy. Why can’t we just get on with our jobs?”
(Group 3) You’re at a reception and overhear a male lawyer say to an Indigenous female lawyer, “You’ve achieved a lot for an Indigenous woman, it’s great to see.”
(Group 4) You overhear a lawyer, who comes from a different office, refer to your front staff admin as “the girls.”
(Group 5) A new colleague is sharing their story at an office event about why they came to live in Canada. She talks about the anti-homosexuality legislation in her country. Someone interrupts and says, “You don’t look gay.”