Active Bystander Scenarios

SET #1

  • 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? 

  • How might you be an active bystander in that moment?

Colleague-to-colleague scenarios

  1. (Groups 1) A colleague misgenders a new employee by using the wrong pronouns. The new employee corrects them. Another staff member overhears the colleague say, “You don’t look trans.”

  2. (Groups 2) A colleague says, “Do we really need to be doing this EDI stuff? I haven’t seen any discrimination at Science World. We’re all so busy. Why can’t we just get on with our jobs?”

Guest-related scenarios

  1. (Group 3) A guest says to your BIPOC colleague, “I want to speak to someone who speaks proper English. I don’t understand your accent.”

  2. (Group 4) A guest says to an Asian-presenting guest or to your Asian colleague: “You people are responsible for the pandemic.”